Word: blame
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...Public Mistrust Re Michael Grunwald's piece on how Washington failed us: I'm neither Republican nor Democrat, and I am disgusted with both [Oct. 13]. Both presidential candidates want to blame Wall Street, and there is surely some merit to that. But the heart of the problem rests with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, two quasi-government corporations. Despite several attempts by legislators to call attention to the impending crisis, others preached the soundness of these institutions. This is not a failure of the free-market system; it is the failure of big government and its manipulations. Jim Vance...
Having grown up in the fiercely nationalistic Ukraine and served in its parliament, Polyakov said he places 90 percent of the blame on Russia and 10 percent on Georgia...
...Strangely, it is this sort of thinking—that is, putting the pursuit of money ahead of almost everything—that is related to why we’re witnessing this current crisis. Though the blame certainly does not rest completely in their hands, it was the greed of many members of Wall Street that contributed to the destabilizing of the market. This veneration of dollars is not sustainable. And when a crash such as this one occurs, many are left feeling very empty. As one friend of mine observed, a strange sense of isolation...
...Health Alliance officials blame much of their financial troubles on the state’s 2006 health care reform program to lower the number of uninsured in the state, which also dropped the rate of reimbursement for hospitals providing uncompensated services...
...Baytelman says part of the blame lies with the Chilean media. Local media tends to highlight sensationalist accounts of robberies, rapes, murders and assaults. Watching the TV news here, you could be forgiven for thinking you were in the favelas of Brazil or the mean streets of Colombia, not in relatively safe Santiago...