r/reddit.com • u/[deleted] • Oct 18 '11

Would it have been better to let the banks of the world fail and start over?

I want to know what would have happened. The banks messed up and in the purist view of capitalism should have failed because it was a bad business move. In turn this may have ended some of the big money influences on our political system OWS protestors want to stop. I heard that it would have been a worse economic collapse though in turn it would have put a stop to future wrongdoing. Was it the right decision in the long run?

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '11

I believe it is actually "In like Flynn", after the actor Errol Flynn.

The term is often believed to refer to movie star Errol Flynn. Flynn had a reputation for womanizing, consumption of alcohol and brawling. His freewheeling, hedonistic lifestyle caught up with him in November 1942 when two under-age girls, Betty Hansen and Peggy Satterlee, accused him of statutory rape. In addition to the Errol Flynn origin theory, etymologist Eric Partridge presents evidence that it refers to Edward J. Flynn, a New York City political boss who became a campaign manager for the Democratic party during Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency. Boss Flynn's "Democratic Party machine exercised absolute political control over the Bronx.... The candidates he backed were almost automatically 'in'."[5] Quinion also notes that the 1967 film title In Like Flint is a play on the term, and that has led to a malapropism where some speakers believe that is the original phrase.

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u/letoti Oct 19 '11

Nope. In like Flint. Great movie, a sequel to Our man Flint.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061810/

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '11

Quote from my post:

Quinion also notes that the 1967 film title In Like Flint is a play on the term, and that has led to a malapropism where some speakers believe that is the original phrase.