[Peace-discuss] Fw: COLUMN: Three New Reports Show Who Was Right & Wrong

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From: "David Sirota" <ds at davidsirota.com>
To: <unionyes at ameritech.net>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 10:44 AM
Subject: COLUMN: Three New Reports Show Who Was Right & Wrong


> We Told You So
>
> By David Sirota
>
> Creators Syndicate, 12/12/08
>
> Please, forgive me for saying it. I know it's a tad annoying, but it
> has to be said to America's ruling class in this humble column space.
> Because if it's not said here you can bet it won't be said anywhere
> else in the media, and it needs to be said somewhere on behalf of the
> millions of citizens who were right.
>
> We told you so.
>
> In the slow-motion train wreck that became the current economic
> meltdown, our bipartisan political Establishment and the sycophantic
> punditburo have been wrong over and over and over again. They told us
> that eviscerating consumer protections would unleash the markets
> benevolent power and boost the economy. They told us that a
> trillion-dollar Wall Street bailout would solve a credit crisis. They
> told us that bailout would be subjected to intense oversight and
> scrutiny.
>
> Wrong, wrong and wrong -- and when critics predicted just that,
> sneering commentators and congressional leaders berated us as
> know-nothing Luddites, conspiracy theorists, or both.
>
> But with the release of three new reports, there's no debate anymore
> about who was correct and who wasnt. The studies prove that the
> critics were right and the ideologues of Washington were wrong.
>
> Read the full nationally syndicated newspaper column here:
>
> http://www.benningtonbanner.com/opinion/ci_11203831
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