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Good point, Barry. The dude under the 5th street bridge with a shopping cart full of tin cans would make a better speaker since Ghandi isn't available for the munchkins. He's been there too.

"Graduation speakers in this season are challenging young people to make the world better..."

This is what graduation speakers ALWAYS do.

"I wonder if Mr. Underwood can look back from a distant point to ask himself if money was enough."

You should be thankful that Mr. Underwood wants to make money Brady. After all someone is going to have to pay for the stimulus plan, TARP I, II, III, IV, V etc., Obamamotors, cap & trade, govt. health care, college education (thanks Mr. Biden), as well as all the existing entitlement programs.

I think guest speakers should concentrate on world peace...

They do that already. Making money is now seen as selfish and evil. Why the hell bother going to college if one doesn't want to make money? It'd be easier to drop out of high school and live off the dole.

"Is money a worthy standard for measuring our life?"

It is one standard of measurement and an important one. I would venture to say rich people give a lot more to charity than their poorer brethren. Take a look at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Dan,

None of us are going to dis making more money even though I've been accused of hating rich people.

I think the point that the unfortunately named writer was trying to make was a good one. It's priorities that he is talking about. Few of us are going to ponder on our deathbeds the thought that we wish that we could have made more money.

On the other hand our doctors might.

There's something deeply wrong with right-wingnuters neocon and dan. Seriously. And I'm reminded of the right-wing radio host who offered to be water-boarded and lasted 6 seconds! neocon and dan up next, please?

"Seriously. And I'm reminded of the right-wing radio host who offered to be water-boarded and lasted 6 seconds!"

Fortunately when he broke he told his interrogators about his plans to bomb San Francisco and DisneyLand with the nuclear weapons that he had hidden under his bed. We just saved millions of more lives there.

See Cheney's right: torture works.

"You should be thankful that Mr. Underwood wants to make money Brady."

I *think* what the writer is attempting to express is a variant of the following:

Greed is not good, Gordon Gecko was full of s**t. Greed is what led crooks (called investment bankers) to create from thin air fictitious financial instruments called "credit default swaps" which, more than any other single thing, is responsible for the economic condition we're in currently.

These a**holes were running a shell game, selling bogus investments that total more than the entire worth of everything on the planet ($565 TRILLION estimated).

So what is their punishment? They get their a*ses bailed out and their bonuses paid when they should be lined up against a wall and shot, then all their assets seized by the government, since that is (ultimately) from whom they stole (forced to print) the money, anyway.

But the bailout was Hank the Skank Paulson's idea, and was a done deal before Obama even won the election.

What has gone on with investment banks since the repeal of Glass-Steagall is the most egregious white-collar crime in history.

Some may observe that I have rather strong opinions on the subject of credit default swaps.

:-D

Why the hell could these people sell this s**t legally? I'm confident that if I were to start selling "magic pixie dust" for $100,000 per ounce I'd get arrested, and there is no f*****g difference. But these subhumans get a pat on the back and a seven-figure bonus.

Again, they should all be shot and their assets seized. At least a small percentage of the money they stole would be recovered.

"And I'm reminded of the right-wing radio host who offered to be water-boarded[...]"

I think the reason Sean Vanity has reneged on his offer to undergo waterboarding is that he knows that God, in Her infinite wisdom, has already made arrangements to drown him via proxy.