Originally Posted by Dirty Dane

When I watch rich old ladies having a facelift and fix their ugly tits, even for their pets, while kids of poor people can't even fix their teeth, then I ask myself who is the real loser.

Originally Posted by kane

Well, not really. Stupid people buying houses they can't afford. Financial companies inventing new products that produce wealth from thin air. The government failing to regulate those products and pulling back on other regulations and some very bad business ideas helped cause our current economic depression.

There are some that would say our current depression is right in line with what the founding fathers wanted. A lack of regulation left the market free to do as it pleased and then eventually it collapsed (as it always does). That is what a free market is all about, boom for a while, bust for a while.