Pressure on Freddie Exec Was 'Relentless'

This frightens me. What did this man see that would lead him to believe death was better than quitting his job? Is something coming that is so terrible that will make us want to kill ourselves? Reply

professortech, how correct you are in your statement. Reply

Professortech: You have not the slightest idea of how this man lived, what drove him, how he saw his world, or why he would have killed himself. In this country, we don't have the rebels brandishing machetes (yet), militants militias, etc., so how can you begin to judge him against people in the world where that's their reality -- it isn't ours. Where are you from anyway? He was a member of the "elite" because he worked his way up there. No where has it been shown that he was a thief or a bad guy. It sounds like he inhertied a very bad situation and that he was totally overwhelmed and consumed by it. He was going without sleep, hounded by the press, pressured by the government (no lily-white hands there!), and he was not even a senior guy when the crap hit the fan. He was trying to do his job to the best of his abilities and getting nothing but disrespect and howling from the mobs about his $850,000 bonus-over-16-months, which he had well-earned. Do you work night and day under that kind of pressure? Somehow I doubt it. Let's wait until we learn more about his situation before we turn this story into your usual rant against people who have money. He actually sounds like he was one of the good guys, working night and day under tremendous pressure from the media, the government (no lily-white hands there !), the public -- he broke, it's that simple. Our culture is ours, not yours -- and without the corporate culture, there is no economic growth in this country -- or the world, for that matter. Maybe that's why we in the U.S. don't have to worry about militants and mercenaries -- most people here are just not that desperate. Reply