The financial mess foisted upon the American public, finds no better expression than the sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley, OZYMANDIAS. I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And curled lip and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read. Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed, And on the pedestal these words appear, 'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,' Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair, Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away Dedicated to malefactors: Kerry Killinger who sunk Washington Mutual Chuck Prince who sunk Citicorp Mozillo who sunk Countrywide Stan O'Neill who sunk Merrill Lynch Senior management of Bear Stearns Senior Management of Lehman Brothers Senior Management of AIG Greenspan for his hubris and obtuseness The Bush Administration for being clueless Bernanke who recognized the problem at the 'edge of the cliff' The hapless and inept SEC The Bush Administration who protected us from Martha Stewart!! And.....many more! With all its faults, America is still the best country in the world.....bar none!! Luciano J. Ercolini Broker/Owner/mba Dalmatian Realty of Silicon Valley
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