We Got Us in This Mess and We Can’t Get Us Out

by Alex Howe | March 13, 2009 at 2:50 am

ozymandias-and-timTonight, the audience of a free student showing of Watchmen in Cambridge erupted in applause at a line that Nixon actually sort of did deliver:

"Let's see those bastards at Harvard figure a way out of that one."

Oh crap, it's coming true. The movie is f'ing long, almost an hour per upcoming year of recession according to one Harvard drop-out. At least this country's last depression was also Prohibition, and anyone with gumption could run rum for money.

What are recent graduates supposed to do now? There are absolutely no jobs, and don't even think about grad school. Finance positions, Ivy gravy until painfully recently, are down more than 70 percent. Which is poetic justice: the hotshot genius "quants" were playing Jenga with the world economy, and they were drunk. And yet, who is supposed to save us? Harvard's Larry Summers and Dartmouth's Tim Geithner (among others). Maybe that explains why Geithner's own government is pulling the rug out from under him. That, or they know the truth.

The Watchman reference makes more sense after the jump.

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