Since the beginning of the new millennium, large corporations we placed such trust and high esteem in, such as Enron, AIG, MCI World Com, and Arthur Andersen, have failed to live up to the trust and esteem placed in them by American citizens, as they have fallen into corruption and greed and have fallen from grace as a result of those things. But the blame for their fall and for the resulting economic crisis that has befallen our nation may not lie in their hands entirely, but also in the hands of the U.S. government and its policy of business deregulation, which came about around late 1999 or early 2000, during the fading months of the presidency of Bill Clinton.
 Let me put it to you this way, friends. As long as these businesses were under strict regulation by the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC), they stayed within the letter of the law as far as their business practices were concerned. But when business deregulation began, the SEC was powerless to stop greed and corruption from entering these businesses. And as a result, these businesses began to fail, one after another. Enron was just the first one to fall in a long line of large corporations. When Enron fell from grace following investigations into their finances by the SEC in late 2001, it uncovered the very corruption that had befallen Corporate America as a whole.
 Soon, other businesses, such as these shown above and many others besides, began to fall into decline. The government believed that they could save these corporations by bailing them out with government bailouts--that is, large grants of taxpayer money. But even these bailouts have failed to save them, and now many of these corporations are filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection even as we speak. Now we have an economic crisis that is a direct result of the corruption, greed, and inefficiency of these corporations and their business dealings,  and due to the fact that our government ended regulation of businesses and spent what remaining money that was in the U.S. government's treasury on trying to bail these dying business giants out of their financial trouble.
 But then again, these are just theories, but so far they seem to be the best ones I can come up with. How else can you explain why we have a belated economy and a rising crime rate in American cities everywhere? Personally, I don't think there is any other possible explanation.
 But I'll leave it to you to decide if I speak truthfully, friends.

 As a matter of fact, I have indeed been unable to reconcile many of my past friendships, not through any fault of my own, but chiefly because of those I was friends with betraying me for others and then trying to throw dirt on my name, painting me as a sick, demented, bloated imbecile. Many of these friendships were from my days in high school, others were from my college days, but still more recently stem from my days working at the hardest, lowliest job anyone can fathom doing.
 The experience has taught me never to trust anyone, particularly women, for it was chiefly the women in my high school and my college who were unfaithful to me, not I to them. It was these same women who destroyed my reputation and threw dirt on my good name, not I them. It was these same women who threw a good man like me aside, a man like me who gave his time and affection to their ungrateful asses, who did all he could for them, in favor of a bunch of weak, dickless wonders who have the audacity to call themselves adult men when they are no more capable of being an adult man than they are of running a brothel.
 And even today, these women and their jackass lovers come to me in the streets every time I go outside, saying, "We sure screwed you good, didn't we, fat-ass?" Do I slap the shit out of their ass? Do I try to hurt them? No. I just walk away, feeling stupid, hurt, and hopeless. But if you should ask them, they would say that I do these things.
 And you people wonder why I can't find it in me to ever reconcile old friendships I once had in the past. Geez!