Posted by
King David Caul on Thursday, October 02, 2008 12:22:07 AM
Ewww, What fun! In all these horror pictures, the monster ALWAYS rises again! You can't just kill evil, it will rise; eyes bloodshot with rage at the effort to extinguish it. Oh, things get so scary! And you can bet that monster is yet angrier in the sequel!
Just in case I don't remember the plot of the first "Bailout!" film, help me out with the story; it was kind of complex...Let me get this straight;
- There is only ONE way we can improve our predicament, and it must necessarily cost a massive sum of taxpayer commitment?
- The massive figure ($700 billion) has been determined somewhat arbitrarily and in a somewhat, well... capricious manner?
- This must be IMMEDIATELY enacted, rammed down our throats if necessary, force-fed to us, expedited; anything but the most HASTY behavior is inadequate and...dangerous?
- One man is responsible for generating the core thrust of this "solution"? Our government and nation is ready to anoint ONE individual as expert enough to determine nationally "imperative" spending of hundreds and hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars? We should just run with the essence of his proposal?
- It is okay if this is the same man who has been our "adviser" as we slid effortlessly toward this crisis? So, we are guided in our solutions by the expert who let us into this mess? Our reinforcement camp of champions of salvation are the admitted economic experts Obama, McCain, and Bush?
- The will of the public and citizens (no matter how wildly unanimous in voice) is not the bottom line, not the point, or even irrelevant?
- If Wall Street corrects downward to a level that is perhaps more correlated to the numerous real and critical national issues, our planet will die? We must prop-up Wall Street -- to whatever happy level the traders and brokers tell us they desire? This alone can save mankind?
- When Enron collapsed and shocked the nation to its core with a $60 billion-dollar market value loss, the public and Washington screamed bloody murder; investigations commenced and people went to jail, and nothing less would have staved off public uprising...When a foreign radicalized entity bombed our buildings and capital with planeloads of our own citizens, Washington even conducted a massive INTERNAL investigation to find limits of OUR OWN responsibility... Now that there is a devastating succession of internally planted time bombs wiping out our financial backbone; we hear no calls for jail, no mandate for probes, no leadership for delivery of truth in culpability? Not even a single firing or resignation yet?
- With Barney Frank chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, and Charlie Rangel at chairman seat of the Ways and Means Committee, we are now modeling our leadership committees on the U.N. "irony" patterns (permitting Syria to chair Commission on Human Rights, and Libya on Security Council) ?
- Instead of calls for responsibility, we are seeing PRAISE laid at the feet of the very people who should be assessed for culpability (Barney Frank for example). We are asked to follow these people into deeper governmental meddling to the tune of $700 billion? We are asked to authorize them to determine what the nation should do?
Wasn't that the plot of "Bailout!" part I? Or was that just headline news shows?