Since when has personal responsibility been narcissistic?

Since a society was comprised of more than just you and its preservation was worth more than some sort of government-funded karmic retribution.

Yeah but you and I fund the government. I think i know what you're trying to say but I don't think that you do

Right, we fund the government, and so it should pay you, and not that other guy. Because that other guy, he's a crazy asshole who doesn't know how to spend his money. Is that more or less the gist?

Clearly those greenbacks would be more useful in your capable hands, am I right? That would solve the you crisis, I mean the economic crisis.

More like you and I fund the government and that money (our money) should not be used to replace the money that someone gambled away by abusing credit.

I know it feels really good for many people to govern by the gut, as we've been doing for the past eight years. I would really like to see all the bad people get what they deserve too. My parents have seen 40% of their life savings dissolve overnight, and they are live-simply people who never gambled a cent. However, if the ship has to keep rowing you can't throw away 1/4 of the oarsmen, even though they are not doing their share of rowing or have been busy stealing rum, or else the ship will spend far more time at sea and everyone will starve.

Everybody hates when losers declare bankruptcy, thus excusing themselves from their obligations to everyone who trusted them, but we've already proven that if you create a large enough culture of disenfranchised debtors, they are less likely to become participants in the culture in the future and end up costing even more for the tax payer. It's more of that "preventive" stuff liberals like talking about so much. If you're conservative, consider this a preemptive strike against a terrorist class of losers.

If your parents have seen 40% of their net worth disappear, they were probably heavily invested in stocks or real estate. They must have been taking a certain amount of risk to have lost so much.

Don't be a dick.

Right? He's all over the damn map and can't articulate exactly what it is he's mad about other than some narcissistic need to rant on camera. All I got out of this was a typical privileged asshole's rant about the "losers who can't afford to live in houses", never mind the complete pimping of the American Dream that went on and the resulting massive ponzi scheme that's now falling apart.

KingArthur master of swords, you might want to figure out what a ponzi scheme is, thanks

The term "Ponzi scheme" is used primarily in the United States, while other English-speaking countries do not distinguish colloquially between this scheme and other pyramid schemes. Learn 2 semantics, conservative scum.

Dow trading floor? Learn2Finance

Bah, I forgot all about the Chicago location during my drunken rant.

It's ok, i am drunk too

It's different for them, see, they're entitled to it. Because they so graciously engage in risky management of other people's money and exploit the labor of everyone else, they get a free pass when their Ivy-League asses can't pay the bills.

Of course it's a cross section, it's got Harvard AND Yale.

Of course he backed off, he went nuts because he had some people behind him. He ditched sense for a quick power fix and deserves zero respect for morning-after regret.