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Once again it's the old "are you for it or against it" idea. War in Iraq - "you for it or against it." War in Terror - "you for it or against it."
And now - Bail out Wallstreet! - "you for it or against it."
How about LOOK AT OTHER OPTIONS. Let me get this straight, within days of the banks tumbling into trouble (that was seen years off, by the by) Paulson turns over a 2 page plan to fork over $700B dollars with no oversight to him. TWO FUCKING PAGES?
Come on. We all work on accounts here..imagine if you had, say even a $7M dollar pitch to make for a campaign, or even a $700,000...and you showed up at the meeting with a proposal that was two pages long and you said "Oh yeah, pay me up front and you can't say anything about the work. Ever." Yeah, that'd happen. Amazing how that doesn't fly in business but you know, that's how Finance does "real business".
So they go away and then come back with 450 pages (how the fuck did THAT happen) that changes absolutely nothing about the original proposal that was odious, but throws on all sorts of giveaways and bells and whistles and shit - like you know provisions for not taxing toy wooden arrows. That's vitally important. Yes.
For fuck's sake - how about this - I am FOR your bum fucks in Washington doing something to address the situation, but NOT this piece of garbage. Come on, come up with something else - I mean what else do you HAVE to do? REALLY? Isn't this your GODDAMN FUCKING JOB? We ignore you most of the time so you can go on your little lobby junkets and shit, but you know for this we kind of expect you to SHOW THE FUCK UP and DO SOME WORK when the entire freaking economy grinds to a halt. Not to just sit there and jump at the first fucking piece of paper some one shoves under your nose.
Look, I'm a regular guy here, and here is the problem - THE CREDIT MARKET HAS SEIZED UP BECAUSE THERE IS A WHOLE BUNCH OF WORTHLESS TOXIC PAPER OUT THERE. Trillions of it. By throwing $700 Billion at it does nothing. NOTHING. Other than the fees and shit that the SAME FUCKING JACKHOLES ON WALLSTREET will now line their pockets some more as they figure out what useless pile of shit to throw this at. All it does is move the problem DOWN THE FUCKING ROAD.
Let me put this another way, this giant $700B bailout puts a tax burden on every single American. And you're just giving it over to five guys to distribute as they see fit. And it won't solve a problem.
Hmmmm..like giving money to people and no one in the public can say anything about it...my that sounds like, I don't know, taxation without representation. One would think one might even have a bit of a hissy fit over such a thing. A veritible brouhaha even. Why, my gosh, something like that could get people SO FUCKING ANGRY THEY'D PICK UP GUNS AND SHOOT WHOEVER IS IN AUTHORITY TO STOP THE BURNING STUPIDITY OF IT ALL.ARRRRRGGGGHHHH!
- <- I wrote that. Not copy & pasted. Needed to rant...TheBlueOne
- I mean here's ONE alternative idea:
http://agonist.org/s…
TheBlueOne - TBO spot-on as usual. :) I still don't get how 90% - 95% of the public is against this...but it passes???? I'm mad as hell.tommyo
- is it a cowinky dink that there is an election in 2012 and the world ends 2012 ?BattleAxe
- THAT'S IT, it's time for revolution!!!DCDesigns