tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post3835164303537265132..comments2024-02-29T00:46:38.800-08:00Comments on Washingtons Blog: Challenger Investigation Got $175 Million. Columbia $152 Million. Lewinsky $30 Million. 9/11 $15 Million. Financial Crisis Gets Only $8 MillionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-18648982920689320862010-05-16T06:46:46.365-07:002010-05-16T06:46:46.365-07:00Apples and oranges. What does 9/11 have to do wit...Apples and oranges. What does 9/11 have to do with NASA? The Space Shuttle disasters were unknown mechanical failures that had to investigated. Do you not remember how both Space Shuttles disintegrated? It cost a lot to gather all the pieces and find the small, faulty pice that caused the failures. 9/11 had some one claim responsibility, OBL admitted to it, what else was there to investigate? The financial crisis could be seen coming for years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-43021072739089681322010-05-12T08:26:00.390-07:002010-05-12T08:26:00.390-07:00Look at the bright side. They didn't spend 30...Look at the bright side. They didn't spend 300 million and come up with the same conclusion. I could the answer to "what happened" for about a buck. It's the Fed stupid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-68701888204744493162010-05-11T11:20:07.352-07:002010-05-11T11:20:07.352-07:00Our elected officials are the most out-of-touch li...Our elected officials are the most out-of-touch liars and criminals on the face of the earth. They have surrendered the dark side - all of them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-31211017254719454892010-05-11T11:11:22.222-07:002010-05-11T11:11:22.222-07:00Great post! I also maintain the allocation of reso...Great post! I also maintain the allocation of resources says a lot about the "values" in this country. Imagine the resource expenditures if their was a scandal involving Amrican Idol, Desperate Housewives and God forbid the iPad.<br /><br />Witness the resources being expended today to get the SEC and Congress off the backs of HFT after the equity market drop last week. 98% of the loss back within 11 trading hours!<br /><br />This vigilant grandpa simply shakes his head...Bear Hughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807393286786630944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-48735294813329436882010-05-10T21:57:52.099-07:002010-05-10T21:57:52.099-07:00US Real estate investigations compared to Clinton&...US Real estate investigations compared to Clinton's real estate Whitewater investigation cost $80 million dollars...took 6 years...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-17420569632687908322010-05-10T20:36:56.254-07:002010-05-10T20:36:56.254-07:00Such an investigation at THIS point, would be like...Such an investigation at THIS point, would be like conducting an investigation into the trail of blood leading away from the hospital, instead of investigating the trail of blood leading -into- the hospital, -where one might find out first-hand from a survivor who it was -exactly- that stabbed them.<br /><br />Go into the street and ask the newly homeless THEIR stories. And individually seek criminal charges -where criminal charges are due-.<br /><br />In other words, start at the bottom.<br /><br />Someone was coaching all these many mortgage applicants to commit fraud. These people doing the coaching -need to be brought to justice -and- jailed.<br /><br />Someone was also -in essence- committing acts of insider trading, -if they were betting against the mortgage portfolios they were bundling and selling to their clients.<br /><br />The information that these mortgage portfolios -were what they were-, wasn't available to anyone for the purpose of "shorting" these financial instruments of deceit.<br /><br />And anyone conspiring to force-or-lobby the government to fork-over bail-out money is clearly guilty of a heinous criminal fraud.<br /><br />The government doesn't simply hand-out money to failing companies.<br /><br />This is clearly -not- the role of government.<br /><br />An investigation at the top is premature. <br /><br />Good criminal cases are built from the bottom up.<br /><br />This 8-million-dollar figure is meant only to pay for a cover-up.<br /><br />There are already paid-criminal-investigators on the staff of a wide variety of federal agencies, -who could round up the likely suspects.<br /><br />Take the $8 million and build a new jail to house these suspects while they await their trials -so they have enough chance to provide information to prosecutors about the criminal enterprises of the higher-ups.<br /><br />It's funny how rotting in a jail can loosen a man's tongue -and- also quite often it will restore a failing memory.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-81277745053314387732010-05-10T17:59:12.391-07:002010-05-10T17:59:12.391-07:00Guess the government cares more about catching tho...Guess the government cares more about catching those pesky engineers who made a math error than finding those responsible for putting millions out of work...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-33582495920978769362010-05-10T16:35:10.370-07:002010-05-10T16:35:10.370-07:00http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/11/science/11maya.h...http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/11/science/11maya.html?pagewanted=2&hp<br />.<br />http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2010/05/11/science/11maya_graphic.html?ref=science<br />.<br />and studies of ancient civilization will see their<br />budget doubled to 1 million. dark financial matter<br />gets trillions, that is alot of millions, right?<br />.<br />keyword: saturation. i can feel it.b the spam artist.....noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-16432740577605320832010-05-10T15:50:12.143-07:002010-05-10T15:50:12.143-07:00And you're not grateful for the piddling amoun...And you're not grateful for the piddling amount spent to investigate the financial crisis? I am. Thank God they didn't spend more given what's likely to come out of it: Showmanship and 24 carat posturing. No, repeat, no, substancial reform EVER comes out of government investigations, any more than substantial reform EVER comes out of elections in the United States. Its the same old stuff decade after decade. The ruling elite and its campaign contribution bursars get richer and the rest of us get poorer. For thirty years or more this country has witnessed what has been the biggest upward transfer of wealth in the history of civilization. And now the only authentic recourse remaining to the American people are strikes and demonstrations. Anyone that still votes or calls their congressman needs a steady course of psychiatric treatment, frankly.<br /><br />Andrei VyshinskyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-42854587494104154822010-05-10T15:46:29.135-07:002010-05-10T15:46:29.135-07:00The fraudulant 9/11 Commission got pennies as well...The fraudulant 9/11 Commission got pennies as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-83675772313946443052010-05-10T15:34:43.739-07:002010-05-10T15:34:43.739-07:00brilliant....brilliant....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-64364934856044441702010-05-10T15:23:20.614-07:002010-05-10T15:23:20.614-07:00Unlike most things, the cost of lying is going dow...Unlike most things, the cost of lying is going down.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com