Through the Looking Glass

I don't remember ingesting mushrooms but, I must have because the shit I'm seeing has got to be a hallucination. Did I just see the colonel Klink look-a-like: Hank Paulson tell us that he changed his mind? All the things he told congress that he was going to do with the $700 billion dollar bail out . . . he's not going to do. None of the money was going to help those whose homes were being foreclosed . . .instead he's going to divvy it up amongst his old running buddies and their banks. He's going to let American Express become a bank so that they can get their hands on my money. American Express, whose slogan used to be " Don't leave home without it." Now should be "Don't foreclose on a home without writing us a big check." I'll get into the auto industry's hat in hand a little later.

Okay let me get this straight: if you or I walk into and bank, hand the teller a note that says, "Give me $100,000.00 or there's gonna be hell to pay." I will be arrested, charged with bank robbery, and when found guilty be given a mandatory sentence. I will spend time behind bars. Now, if I steal millions of stock holders and tax payers money, I just need to call this Paulson guy, and he can get congress to give me more? No arrest. No jail time. Man, am I in the wrong business.

How is this being allowed to happen? I thought Bush's lack of intelligence was an "Emperor has no clothes" scenario but, this heist in broad daylight of our money is like nothing I've ever seen. Nobody's throwing a fit! It's astounding! How about we just stop and say what the fuck do you think you're doing?!!

Apparently the financial world didn't come to an end like we were told it was going to do unless we gave Paulson $700 billion. It just brought out every Tom, Dick and Harry with their hat in hand. Sure, the economy is in a shambles but lining the pockets of those who mismanaged and embezzled trillions of dollars, is not going to do a damn bit of good. Bush is heading out of the white house door with all the silverware and the china. Baldy lets the world know that he's changed his mind on how best to spend our money and the stock market drops over 400 points. Who is this guy???? Oh yeah that's right . . . an ex-CEO of Goldman Sachs that Bush recommended for Secretary of Treasurer.

Ben Bernanke, the Pernell Roberts look-a-like and Bush appointed Chairman of the Federal Reserve keeps printing money by the trillions knowing that every new dollar printed lessens the value of your savings and mine. The Fed is not releasing the identity of the banks and loan institutions that it has lent 2 trillion dollars to (in addition to the 85 billion it loaned AIG) nor is it telling us what bad debts the banks are using as collateral. Is there no end to this? I'm not an economist nor are any of my friends but, I have read a few articles in my day, and when an economy is flooded with unbacked dollars it causes inflation. (the devaluing of the dollar) This has happened on a much smaller scale in the past with devastating repercussions. The amounts the Fed is printing now is an unprecedented multi billion and trillion dollar amount. If 2 + 2 still equals 4 in this ALICE IN WONDERLAND world we find ourselves in, then we are going to have inflation on steroids. What doesn't add up is that people like Paulson and Bernanke and the majority of Congress know this and haven't put a stop to it.

Why hasn't the media put a spotlight on the naked emperor?! His naughty bits are dangling all over the place! While I've been accused of being a conspiracy nut in the past you can't tell me that you think that this is all on the up and up. Even my main man, Obama has me pissed off. I was gonna give him a few months leniency before ripping into him but, he blew it when he voted for the first $700. billion bail out. Now the American auto manufactures are asking for their welfare . . . followed by the airlines, I'm sure.

Okay Ford, GM, and Chrysler. Putting the pension plans and health care expenses aside, if you had made vehicles that Americans wanted to drive instead of gas guzzling Apartment complexes on wheels you might have weathered this storm. If you would have spent a little more money on R&D instead of thousands of white collar positions that exist only to regurgitate 30 year old marketing ideas, you might have weathered this storm. But Noooooooo! You've offered zero innovations that would have made your companies competitive in today's market place. Now, you come to the American people for a hand out. A hand out that will be like giving a wino 2 bucks who will just buy some thunder bird and who will be back tomorrow wanting more. You need to fire all of your CEO's and upper management. If you're a VP of anything at Ford, GM, or Chrysler you've got to go. If you couldn't be forward thinking enough to prepare for an alternative fuel market place then you're either incompetent or in cahoots with Big oil. In either case you're doing your company, it's workers and the United States of America great harm. So bye bye ass holes!!! And oh yeah . . .Where's my flying car?!

So, back to our government's Chief Embezzling Officers: Paulson and Bernanke. Since they can just change there mind on how our money is spent, print money willy nilly, and refuse to make public who they're giving it to. I propose that all of us follow Paulson's lead and collectively change our minds. As long as there is zero accountability of the spending of our tax dollars, a continuing redistribution of our tax dollars to poorly managed corporations and financial institutions, and a systematic devaluation of our tax dollars . . . come April 15th let's not give them any more. IMHO this is an attack on the citizens of the United States. Through lies and legislation congress and chancellor Paulson are contributing to this nation's economic collapse. We the people are severely limited in our ability to stage a revolution like the one in 1776. Our government has far superior weapons and technology on it's side, but what about a tax revolt? I'm just asking.

DaG Out