Winterclaw opened this issue on Oct 09, 2008 · 105 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Fri, 10 October 2008 at 10:15 PM
Quote - I'm sorry Peelo, I didn't mean to upset you, I wasn't very serious. A lot of people in Holland lost their savings on an iceland bank called Icesave, and although the dutch government has promised to pay their lost ( till €100,000.00) there is nothing funny about it.
So I have to apologise, because it was in fact a funny tagline.Bopper.
Yep. This thing has roots which go all over the world. And now we'll all get to 'enjoy' the fruits of it.
Actually, the entire thing started with Jimmy Carter. And the rest is history. A sordid history of regulating businesses by the yardstick of Political Correctness, as opposed to sound business judgments:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/the_financial_mess_how_we_got.html