http://stonestreetpress.com/948/wall-st-foxes-in-the-nations-henhouse-meet-larry-kudlow-unashamed-shill-for-the-foxes/ Handmade books by Malachi McCormick Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:09:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://stonestreetpress.com/948/wall-st-foxes-in-the-nations-henhouse-meet-larry-kudlow-unashamed-shill-for-the-foxes/comment-page-1/#comment-1063 Kevin McEneaney Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:18:11 +0000 http://stonestreetpress.com/?p=948#comment-1063 Business students of George Bush's genration who supported unconditionally the Vietnam War isolated themselves culturally and nursed fantasies of revenge upon American Society in order to someday prove themselves right. Entitled but marginalized by the counterculture movement they yearned for the day when business and the military would merge in a cultural conquest of American society and the world itself becasue in their sense of entittlement they thought they could do no wrong. In this respect their mentality was similar to the later liberal Russian Czars. Rove, Bush, and Cheney engineered the coup they all dreamed of and we now can reap the rewards of their complacent notion that capitalism can never do wrong and that the upper class policies itself adequately through their pride in being the upper class. Their narcissistic naivete has now wrecked the country, although it is true that some of the problems we now have were rooted in the apparent success of the radically pro-business Clinton administration. In dismantling the banking safeguards created Hamilton and FDR, we became the new Humpty-Dumpty economy. I think it is important to realize that the mind-set which created this mess flourished in a cultural bubble and that a proper analysis of the situation should be left to anthropologists and historians. Meanwhile, we can all weep and pay as we slip into the new cultural mentality that will endorse incompetence and favoritism as the prevailing modes that will govern our future. Business students of George Bush’s genration who supported unconditionally the Vietnam War isolated themselves culturally and nursed fantasies of revenge upon American Society in order to someday prove themselves right. Entitled but marginalized by the counterculture movement they yearned for the day when business and the military would merge in a cultural conquest of American society and the world itself becasue in their sense of entittlement they thought they could do no wrong. In this respect their mentality was similar to the later liberal Russian Czars. Rove, Bush, and Cheney engineered the coup they all dreamed of and we now can reap the rewards of their complacent notion that capitalism can never do wrong and that the upper class policies itself adequately through their pride in being the upper class. Their narcissistic naivete has now wrecked the country, although it is true that some of the problems we now have were rooted in the apparent success of the radically pro-business Clinton administration. In dismantling the banking safeguards created Hamilton and FDR, we became the new Humpty-Dumpty economy. I think it is important to realize that the mind-set which created this mess flourished in a cultural bubble and that a proper analysis of the situation should be left to anthropologists and historians. Meanwhile, we can all weep and pay as we slip into the new cultural mentality that will endorse incompetence and favoritism as the prevailing modes that will govern our future.

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