Malkin is such a sleaze that she made her Grasshopper into what appears to be a caricature of a minority American, and I suppose she thought of herself as the all-American Ant, striving to be the best and the brightest. Malkin, because she is Asian, assumes she can get away with making fun of less privileged minority citizens who don’t have the benefit of an elitist Oberlin education and access to wingnut welfare cash.
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Is this woman insane? Banks, insurance companies and other lenders didn’t go under because they made loans to the poor. They went under because the were criminals and perpetrated fraud on the entire financial world – not by selling poor people’s loans – but by selling tricked-up worthless paper over and over again to eager, but unsophisticated buyers. They became the BIG LIE. No one believed that American bankers could be so felonious. Yet they were, and still are.