This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time

[athelind]

Last year, I posted an LJ entry that said that the defining moment for our generation wasn't when man set foot on the Moon, but when we turned away.

Most of my commentators, bless their literal souls, thought I was just talking about the space program, and at that stage in my recovery, I wasn't quite up to clarifying the symbolic and metaphorical

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[richardf8]

And it's not just the people who were bamboozled into taking ludicrous mortgages for overpriced properties who have been screwed. There is a growing cadre of people who bought houses at perfectly reasonable prices with perfectly reasonable mortgages who, thanks to this bloodless gang of robber-barons, have seen our property values dip below our remaining principle. My wife and I are in the unfortunate position of trying to sell in this market for the very simple reason that our neighbors have a set of habits that trigger our asthma. You are right - the bailouts should have gone to the folks who stood to lose their houses, not to the robber barons who sold them a bill of good.

As for the comparison made by another commenter about Hitler and Pol Pot - not quite. I know nothing about Pol Pot, but Hitler came to power on the anger of the everymen of a raped German economy. These folks aren't like Hitler, but rather they are the ones who have created the conditions in which someone like him can achieve power.