Friday, January 30, 2009

They don't get it!

Recently the government has infused our banks and financial institutions with billions of dollars. It was designed to make these entities more financially solvent after getting stuck with tons of worthless paper, mostly of their own creation. So what happens. One company,AIG, hosts a fancy spa getaway party, others give themselves nice million dollar bonuses and one of the most troubled bank in the country,Citigroup, decided to spend their whole share on a new jet. Another CEO redecorated his ofice for over one million tax payer bucks. These stories abound and nothing happens except a few snide comments from the press. This is Nero fiddling while Rome burned(not a historical fact but a great phrase) They have no interest in change. The stimuli bills are designed to reinflate a blown out love doll. The economy, based on spending more than we make has collapsed. Yet these guys want to give the banks money to lend. Well they ain't lending it,look what happened last time they overlent. They want to maintain status quo. That being the life of the rich and privedged in America. Why give a shit about people with no health care when you have the best. Hell, John McCain forgot how many houses he owned in the middle of a housing crisis. People living on the streets, mortgages foreclosed,unemployed and this guy can count his houses and cars. Its obscene, thats what it is. I am not picking on McCain, it just that example comes readliy to mind. Another is Bernie Madof. Poor Bernie, has to live under house arrest in his $7 million dollar APARTMENT!
He ruined thousands, some of whom have no place to live. Oh well, he can afford justice. Probably health care too. So its all about the Benjamins. Ghetto kids bedeck themselves with fake gold symbols o affluence, Mercedes, Gucci, Rolex etc. They dream of pimping rides they'll never have and becoming Michael Vicks(whoops bad choice) Hopefully now black youth can look up to being president, rather than deal with icons created by the wealthy to separate these people from whay little cash they have. And christian fundamentalists rally about abortion ,gays and the threat of Islam. They think Jesus is coming, probably mostly for white people. Well if I were Jesus, I'd head off to Andromeda or some black hole rather than deal with this mess.

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