In any case, it's a lot of trouble — why not just go up in a plane?
Mr. Romney blithely said that if a state got into trouble "Why, we could step in and see if we could find a way to help them".
And by the way, if a states get -- gets in trouble, why, we could step in and see if we could find a way to help them.
After all the financial wizardry that got the country — actually, the world — into trouble, why don't these bankers give their audience what it seems to crave?
And if a top economist at Goldman Sachs was saying housing was in trouble, why did Goldman continue to underwrite junk mortgage issues into the market?
"With me just 10 feet away from them, they knew they were in trouble, why didn't they tell me?" Mrs. West asks now.
He says his wife had already known about the affair – but if the woman was so troubled, why did he get involved with her? "I don't know," he replies in a low voice.
The very fact that for sixteen months we have failed to judge the situation and to take corrective measures has come to seem like evidence that nothing is seriously wrong — for if we are in serious trouble, why have we not acted to save ourselves?
I don't believe that's true, but there are some good reasons why the employees could be troubled, why morale could be low.
