Friday Filler: “Then who do we shoot?”
By Craig Kennedy - September 26th, 2008; 12:01 am
As the economy circles the toilet bowl threatening to take those of us who pay our bills on time down with it, the people who played the markets like Las Vegas slot machines are going to get away with killing the golden goose. It turns out the only thing trickling down all these years is sewage.
Are you mad yet?
Filed under: Clips, Friday Filler
Tags: The Grapes of Wrath
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lol, that quote you used for the title is great. I love that that’s the most important question.
Boy that gets really serious at about the 1:30 mark doesn’t it? Heartwrenching.
Hell, I’ve been mad for years.
Reminds me of the scene in Bonnie and Clyde where Clyde loans his gun to the old farmer who has been forced out of their home by the bank and the old man gleefully shoots the place up, then lets his share cropper shoot the place up too.
Get a rope.
Daniel, I had the same response. It started out kind of light and funny in that ’40s stagey way, but then it gets real…
Good clip Joel. I should’ve thought of that one having just watched the movie…
As someone with a massive amount of debt and no particular assets, I kind of like it all. I feel like everyone’s moving in my direction.
I’m in a similar situation to you Jeff, though with me it’s not college loans, it’s just consumer debt which I have no one to blame for but myself.
It irritates the shit out of me though to know that the government isn’t lining up to bail me out of the mess I’ve put myself in because I’m not a home owner or an investment bank.
But, as long as inflation doesn’t go crazy and I keep my job (knocking on wood), there isn’t much bad that can happen to me.
Is that Bonnie & Clyde scene on YouTube?
I’m with you, Jeff! Seems like the people most up in arms about this are the ones who have the most to lose. Not that it’s not a big deal in a grand sense, but it’s still interesting to see how the wealthy react when they’re confronted with a shocking reality that you and I and most everyone else deals with daily: the reality of stressing about personal finances.
This is when John Edwards’s tagline about two Americas actually makes sense. Which is no endorsement of him in anyway, btw.
I couldn’t find it if it is Alison.
Thanks, Joel, for bringing up that Bonnie and Clyde scene, which made its point with a minimum of explanatory dialogue. Very powerful.