Thoughts on OBL and the Financial Crisis

I am certainly glad to be rid of one more major terrorist and one allegedly involved with killing of almost 3k in America.  What I found curious though, I was searching for 60 Minutes to see if they might have another show on the Foreclosure Mess last night and found Steve Kroft anchoring a program on CNBC which appeared to be a continuation of their look into the foreclosure mess.  He had some interesting interviews but like all programs on this, missed a lot and was reasonably shallow in depth but still added what I thought was more interesting fodder to the “main stream” on these issues.  Was it me, or did it seem to be a “coincidence” that even though OBL had been dead a week, they chose that exact time to make the announcement of OBL being killed?  Probably just me being a conspiracy theorist.  I must say, it really struck me at the timing of this.  Perhaps I’ve been working in this foreclosure stuff too long.  By the way, I can’t find that program on line for some reason…hmmm.  Oh, I know, they had to wait for DNA results to come back.  I guess they just rush in, kill first, confirm who they killed and ask questions later.

Given the “celebrations”  readily shown on television which I personally found distasteful and perpetuating the “ugly American” image, it gave me pause to consider the lack of similar “exuberance” related to what I consider the rape and murder of Americans by the greedy dirt-bags that caused this mortgage and financial crisis and are continuing to take the working lives of Americans (and others).  I decided to run some numbers and came up with this train of thought:  The purported average American lives approximately 78.7 years and the average high school graduate makes $1.2 million in their lifetime.  It is also reported that the credit and foreclosure crisis may cost about $1 trillion (which is VERY low in my opinion).  Even with those numbers, they have taken the lives of over 830,000 Americans!  If you use the $17 trillion of the “financial crisis” instead of the “mortgage crisis” as the number, (which I’d suggest is one and the same) you’re looking at the taking of over 14,000,000 (yes MILLION) working lives of Americans.  While it isn’t the same as actually killing someone, it should give one pause to think about the scope and contrast of what might be considered important enough to “demonstrate” about…

Just one man’s opinion for what it’s worth.

Charles
Charles Wayne Cox

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