Okay, I don't wanna say I told you so, but...
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-weber/play-bail_b_130317.html)
Guys and gals: if we don't get it by now, then we deserve it please-sir-may-I-have-another.
The trillion dollar bailout was a scam. No accountability. No disclosure. It smelled awful but we let the greed whores do it anyway. They said "Do it or else XYZ will happen!" We flinched. And they had us. But good. The old ones are the best.
Forget their blatant abuse of the system.
Forget their utter contempt for justice, for fairness, for honesty, for Democracy, for America.
Forget the media's blizzard of pallid punditry, with their candy coated smiles and their phlegmmy shrieks and their distracting bust lines.
Think: the corporate capitalisto-fascists must hate, I mean reeeaaallly, hate
People.
Must hold them in utter disdain. And to harbor such dizzying revulsion for them it must be that they truly, ultimately fear them. Though clearly, not while they trundle around in their Ambien® sleep-walk-eat-fuck state.
You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things. So saturated and swollen by fatuous television, disposable music, myopic perspective; so reliant upon an infrastructure purposely neglected to keep its dependents on edge; so trained to submit to authority no matter how incapable or incompetent so long as it waves a flag or brandishes a religious symbol or promises more pie in the sky when you Wii.
Justice must be taken out of their pockets and placed into our hands.
A nation of rubberneckers pausing to watch their own car wreck as though viewing it on a small, pinchable screen; so distanced from their own senses tragically having come to trust distrust, to embrace their own submissiveness, to ignore their own extinction. Funny -- no, terrible how a nation which once prided itself on individual strength and grit and honesty could be so pressed into a weak and hollow brand, a generic herd poked and prodded by wranglers perched high in glass towers.
Christmas is coming. And regardless of what you know deep down to be happening, they would like it -- you'd be doing them and yourselves a favor -- if you'd spend a little more. And a little more. And a little more. You'd be bailing them out. Be charitable.
After all, these are hard times.
As another posted stated, who is the people's lobbyist!?!
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No one has ever answered the question: Why don't the automakers just file Chapter 11? It would let them reorganize and get back on their feet again. Why do we (the taxpayers) have to bail them out?
This is insane.
Also, you do realize that in bankruptcy many small manufacturers will not be paid and be left to swing in the wind, no?
The US automakers have deep, deep problems - management, the unions, everything. Chapter 11 will help them reorganize and become profitable.
Are you saying no one involved with the automakers should have to suffer any consequences?
Merry Christmas, indeed.
everything is posed as a "crisis" and then we stop thinking and get irrational and go along with the programs and policies that are presented
Nero already burned Rome, so Georgie will have to think of something much bigger to serve his "leagacy". (Having shoes thrown at him doesn't quite count as courage under fire.)
Follow that up with way too many people responding, "Well I don't have anything to hide, what are you afraid of?" when being told our phone conversations are all being monitored and you have The End.
Odd, every time I've said that, it's always been answered by silence.
When the big bailout was thrust in our faces in Oct., I couldn't help but be reminded of the old Monty Python gangster skit.
As these shakedown artists and fast talking pimps for big business entered our homes through the fantasy world of TV's main stream news media, I half expected them to say, "Nice economy ya got here. Be a shame if anything was ta happen to it!"
And just like in a thousand bad gangster movies, we paid the ransom hoping to avoid the inevitable, but the inevitable always comes.
As you've so eloquently pointed out, the ball is in the court of each and everyone of us.
Will we rise to the occasion? I don't know, but history is clear. Those who fight for their rights win, and those who lie down are subjugated.
The second guy is a Morgan Stanly employee and as I write this is vacationing in Aruba with wife, kids and the babysitter. He is in no fear of losing his job and still expects to get his bonus.
What's wrong with this picture?
And yes, Steven, you are absolutely correct. all one has to do is look at how Congress has treated the auto industry (read UNIONS) to see how they hate the citizens.
and while I'm on that subject ... I AM NOT A CONSUMER. I am a CITIZEN. I am not here to benefit business, rather it is the other way around.