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Agree "woulda coulda shoulda", unfortunately. That's the point - add it to the numerous list of utter failures on the part of our government to display any sort of coherent vision during the awful months at the end of 2008 and into 2009-10. They showed themselves for what they are - visionless, dreamless, plan-less fools beholden to the corporate and ideological masters that buy and pay for them. It galls me to no end that they'll run hundreds of extremely expensive military models about this or that scenario and develop a response plan so it's on a shelf "ready to go" if those events ever come to pass, but something like this which is frankly predictable had absolutely no game plan. Did these idiots think that the housing bubble was actually going to go on forever or that it wasn't a bubble? That's truly scary if so. I don't think there's a person in America (including NAR spokesman Yun) who really believed it and didn't know a crash was coming. So where the hell was the plan, the vision, the strategy, the already-brainstormed goals?
Nope, nothing. And don't even get me started how in wake of this event all we got was Dodd-Frank - an utterly spineless piece of legislation. A total cop-out. We should have gotten so much more and there should be so much more reform to our banking and currency systems in place than there is today. It's a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions that we went through so much, could have learned so much from it, didn't and then did so little - in fact setting ourselves right up for the same problem again only with fewer tools to combat it next time. Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Dodd and all the rest - frankly I wonder if they ought to be all strung up for treason for their blatant dereliction of duty. And James I agree we might not have been able to get to industrial-scale, viable nuclear H2 fusion in ten years but maybe we would have with the right commitment of resources. If not, we'd be making serious inroads by now. We'd certainly have a schite-ton of fission reactors completed or nearing completion by now with a lot of cheap power coming online. Instead, we did nothing. We doubled down on the same greedy scumbags we've always cow-towed to. Our "leadership" is non-existent and utterly devoid of vision or ability to confront our real challenges. Hell, they can't even do step #1 of problem solving ("identify the problem")! I've lost faith in our political system as a result of the lack of vision and leadership displayed in the last 5-8 years. I'm convinced nothing will change it short of a revolution at this point and I'm frankly hoping it comes sooner rather than later.
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When I was in grad school we had to go to freshman lab boot camp. Rip thru all the freshman experiments in three days so that you could teach the lab. My teaching 'buddy' and I became friends for the remainder of our time. He went to a more established prof, while I went to a newbie. So he got out much earlier than I, so he went to law school as well to do patent stuff.
I will never forget we had lunch one day and he made the comment that all lawyers do is learn how to destroy stuff. There is no creativity in the whole practice. Its about tearing down. That comment has always made me wonder about government given the bulk of our elected officials are lawyers rather than from professions that create, like engineering. It is truly a 180 from our founding fathers, who may have been practitioners of the law, but also were farmers, builders, engineers, and inventors. And dare I say better read. I would guess its like that in every first world nation... But its pretty obvious why we don't plan ahead, e.g. like the intellectual insurance of free rides for various special disciplines we might need as a nation in the future...or critical infrastructure, research, ect. 
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So after all that Alexis Tsipras is quitting.
More turmoil for Europe. I wouldn't be surprised if it all starts to fall apart now. Alexis Tsipras to Announce Resignation Today; Elections September 20th - The Pappas Post
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Listen to the Complete First Post Resignation Interview of Yanis Varoufakis from ABC Australia Radio - The Pappas Post
The only thing he doesn't say in this interview is the word Sturmabteilung as a descriptive that I have used of the Euro zones coercion of the Greeks. .
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More bad news...
Marketwatch Opinion: Germans Begin the Looting of Greece: “The War is Over; Let the Occupation Begin” Marketwatch Opinion: Germans Begin the Looting of Greece:
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It's hard to argue with your logic but I feel the mistakes of the past are destined to be repeated. One day we could be looking back with regret.
"Rock Star" politicians... 
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And assuming Fraport does invest in the infrastructure, it won't be a bad thing. I flew through 2 of the 14 airports last summer & Santorini, in particular, was small, dingy & packed with hot, frustrated tourists. It needs a bull-dozing . . .
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BTW ones comments ought to make the EUers froth at the mouth with being associated with the those NAZI thugs that Hitler used to ascend to power in creating his Dritte Reich. Now diesen Vierte Reich namen ist der EU.
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