paulson makes a great 'dr. doom', straight from central casting, better than chertoff even, hell, better than rudy!
'we've cracked it, the blame is too diffused to haunt us, we've taken the world's savings hostage, and we're holding an ak-47 to the head of anyone who wants to threaten our getting away with the hooch...(evil cackle)
the other phrase that recurs to the point of agony, is 'too big to fail'...
the images engendered by that are surreal.
the most recent and compelling is an elephant stepping out onto thinning ice!
i mean really, they were too big to fail, they failed anyway, so the recipe for success is to hand them a fat cheque, (just for aperitivo), unlimited political over-ride power, and total freedom from accountability by rule of law.
makes total sense, huh?
the sopranos were such amateurs... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
He took them to the city of London and gave a speach, which was sampled into a late 80's dance track. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Polychronicon of Adeeva: Two thieves and a liar
"I've done a few dealings in the citymet a number of stockbrokers and i can tell you in all my life that i've never seensuch dishonesty and greedit's like a big betting shop a bookies a casinowhere the're all screwing each other and the rest of the world"
"when the jews and italian communities went to america rightthey landed in a new country that was ripe for organisation and for racketsnow in this country thats not possible because the real power the real money the real rackets have been going on over here for hundreds of yearsall stitched up and passed on from generation to generationand the american gangsters right, theyr'e still struggling to get the respectability that theyr'e afterbut we've had three centuries headstart on those buggersand look haven't we done a beautiful job of it an' alli bet you there are millions of people right that thinkthat the blokes who work here in the city are really good blokeshard working who have got the economy of this nation deep in their heartswhat a load of cobblers it's the best confidence trick in history"
