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Paul - October 11, 2011

Amen! You nailed it.
Lane in McK - October 11, 2011

Power to the people, you commie/hippie!!! Go hug a tree, then pee on a copy of the consitution. Don’t you know protesting against Wall Street is unamerican? We need to cut the taxes of the financial barons so they — and other job creators like Kardashian sisters and The Situation — can buy more crap they won’t use.
Yer Ol' Boss - October 11, 2011

I just followed all your links (heating up dinner, had some time) and the irony of Pennsylvania’s past environmental cleanup efforts to be undermined by fracking is just overwhelming. It’s almost like “let’s bring back the pollution of uncontrolled industrialization, the good ole days”, because that was nothing compared to the toxins being dumped by unregulated shale extractions.

When I can set my tap water on fire with a match, I’ll let you all know.
Lane in McK - October 14, 2011

I visit this site irregularly so I did not see the cartoon until today(10/15/11).I honestly cannot see any connection to the hated scapegoat Wall Street and closing the steel mills.If you cannot make a profit with old and obsolete plants you simply can’t afford to keep them open.If US Steel didn’t buy into Marathon Oil they would have been as extinct as J&L is today.As to G.C.Murphy it is correct that a leveraged buyout caused a hostile takeover.However in the end those folks that initiated it lost everything also.As to the homes in McKeesport, real estate predators exist everywherte.For example,you can go for a ride on the Foreclosure bus parked at the Edison Mall in Ft Myers Florida to tour the area where you can buy a virtually brand new house for less than 100k.As to the fracking issue I think that it is a reach to say that Wall Street is the cause of lawless and unethical behavior by some of those drilling companies.The reason I noted the date is that in today’s Post Gazette, Charles Krauthammer’s column details the “scapegoat” re-election strategy.You should put down the pitchforks and take a few minutes to read it.
Matt in W Oak - October 15, 2011

Matt, if you can’t see a connection between the slash-and-burn capitalism practiced on “Wall Street” and the present sorry conditions of the Mon Valley (and other post-industrial wastelands like Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Toledo, Steubenville, Wheeling, etc., etc., etc.), then I’m not sure we’re living in the same country.

As for Mr. Krauthammer, he is a reliable apologist for the Ayn Rand wing of the Republican Party. He has been pushing the exact same discredited trickle-down economic philosophies — and the lack of meaningful regulation that led directly to the real estate bubble and to the banking system’s collapse — since I was a kid.

On the other hand, Krauthammer was great in “Dr. Strangelove,” so I guess he’s not all bad.

I’ll just keep my pitchfork, thanks.
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