The 25 People Who Screwed Up the World

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Phil Graham accomplished what he set out to do, he covertly repealed Glass-steagal and help create the mess we have today. He was aware that this this law was instituted to prevent another great depression. By secretly repealing the law he created the environment in which we find ourselves today, and he has enriched his partners in crime. There should be massive prosecutions and the jails should be filling up with Graham and goldman and many others.

g8 of MD 2:27PM October 14, 2011

Wow. www.usnews.com kicks ass.

Bryon of AL 5:07PM March 10, 2010

mm.. thank you for this thread..

Bypenear of AL 10:43AM December 15, 2009

mm... funny .

Bypenear of AL 11:26PM December 14, 2009

Wheres Hilary?

Matthew of IN 12:25PM July 31, 2009

+1

soundtracks of AL 5:23AM July 17, 2009

Elected officials and their appointees didn't make the mess all by themselves. Left-"liberal" campaign consultants, journalists, academics, and celebrities have all had their hand in framing contemporary issues in such a way as to make building up gigantic, governmentally-sponsored economic distortions seem to be matters of simple good morals.
If it were not for claims of racist red-lining, I understand sub-prime lending would never have gotten off the ground.
If it were not for the cultivation of envy, taxation of income and capital gains would not be so great. If it were not for the high rates, restrictive accounts such as IRAs would have little appeal. If the Americans were not thus induced to lock their money up in the capital markets, the enormous stock and credit bubbles could scarcely have developed.
If it were not for the cooperation of left-"liberal" consultants, journalists, academics, and celebrities, the men campaigning for public office could not so easily have cultivated the opinions that have formed the basis for their election to office. Lacking offices, they would not have been able to distort the markets as they have.

Kralizec 7:27PM February 05, 2009

Remember Ken Lay? All the CEO's took note along with Lay's best friend...Geo. Bush.Any company that went under and received bailout funds from Santa Paulson should spend at least twenty years behind bars. Not one of those country clubs, but Folsom or Joleit. Max all the way. Maddoff should die. And I'm a staunch anti death penalty advocate. Mitch (I hate my mother) McConnell should be castrated and then sewen inside his mouth, then he and whatever he has in his mouth throwh into the East River! He wants to exclude DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS from getting tax rebates. He also wants to exclude your mother and father who are on social security too. Leave it up to a republican after eight years of destroying the economy, he all of a sudden has a cure! Imagine that. Mitch, you give a whole new meaning to BRIAR!

William Alex Marley of OK 7:44PM January 28, 2009

How about: Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Chuck Shumer, Maxine Waters, Barack Obama who all took large amounts from Fannie and Freddie. How about Obama as an ACORN trainer; teach those folks how to get fraudulent votes. There were regulators who told the House members about bloated profit numbers, falsified signatures, etc. Maxine Waters shouted them down and said "the programs are working exactly as they should."

Jane Wilson of IL 4:38PM January 28, 2009

Some of us Minnisotans believe that some "suits" from Northwest Airlines should be added to the list. If it wern't for the economic hold they have on the local economy, we'd wish they would begone to allow other air carriers to enter the local market.

Philip of MN 9:05AM January 28, 2009