Remember the lead up to the Iraq War? Remember the buzz in your head and the fluttering in your gut that said something horrible is going to happen? Well, here we are again folks. This time it seems more up close and personal. Like you're a bank teller and someone has an assault rifle poised on the ledge of your window. Is it any surprise that the handwriting on the note matches George Bush's? It's a pretty simple demand really. It just says," Give me all your money."
Okay so people took out loans and extended their credit beyond their means. It would never have happened if they were sold the idea that that was okay. When you're a ignorant nobody unaware of finances you trust "the smart guys" to tell you when to stop and when to go. If you get a letter in the mail saying you can get a mortgage or a credit card with seductive low charges, you would of course take it. That's especially true when your paycheck has shrunk so small it can barely cover your butt, let alone take care of all the necessities of life like hospital visits or car breakdowns. Please let's not blame the victims. This is the cabal at work. the one that pulled GWB's puppet strings. The ones that have pushed Sarah Palin down McCain's throat and bought him off with his own greed.
If you've been following the economic terrorist attack from within, you probably feel confused. Who wouldn't. It's obvious no one in Washington has a clue what is happening. How could ANYONE in their right mind even consider for one micro-second supporting anything that says
"...the whole thing is up to Paulson's "discretion," and "may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency."
http://www.alternet.org/story/99979/
If that isn't a WMD, I've never read one. Once again the actions of the politicians in Washington have me suspecting that the demise of America as we know it is an inside job. Forget bin laden. What he did was peanuts compared to this. America is on her knees, and I just don't feel confident that anyone can save her anymore.
If Obama votes to approve this garbage that will be the last sign for me that nothing short of a revolution will restore American ideals, and even that feels iffy right now.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
No, seriously, these are the scariest of times
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Roll Out the Barrel. We’ll All Have Barrels of Funds
The Glass-Steagall Law erected barriers between banks, brokerages and insurance companies in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash. This New Deal reform cancelled by Clinton (he added NAFTA to the corporate lunch and the Bush Administration went on steroids) reflects a major shuffle with a handful of trump cards disappearing under the table.
Solid business used to be the goal. Today, running the show into the sewer and begging for a handout is the game. With auditing practices complex enough to fool the fox in the hen house, with CEOs who let the dice roll instead of maintaining a safety valve for investors and stock holders, we’re “led” to the alters, the wars, the echoes in the mall and the silence between national drumbeats so thin the music doesn’t even play.
The loan sharks are in the bedroom. Its din din for Jesus and the cash. This Wallow Land of epistemic opacity and eulogistic sound bytes, runs up the tab, bears arms for oil, or sits under the Congressional flagpole waiting for the next job, the next hurricane, the next foreclosure, the next shoe to drop from Uncle Sam’s never ending slog to corporate victory.
What an orgy. Create the crisis. Demand payback for years of economic polymorphic perversion. Streamline the hedge funds with no promise of return. Add Presidential power at the Congressional Dance Hall this week. We’ll hold our breath while the global financiers pant for more. In this flushed out game of drop the soap, perhaps a worldly body condom is in order.
Perfectly said, David! The polka rolls on and the fancy dancers on Wall Street are still sending out invitations to the ball.
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