Outrage

Your editor will, on occasion, sheepishly admit to being a fan of conspiracy sites. For the most part, they’re a form of entertainment that I find…well, entertaining. They can be dark and dank, but many of them are written by very smart people with startlingly fresh and creative perspectives. You probably know the kind of sites I’m talking about. Some of them are hugely successful.

In this deepening “Greater Depression,” many of these sites are starting to prove themselves to be more than just fantasy and fiction. The terrible things they’ve been predicted are, in more than a few cases, starting to appear to us in our day to day world, and that makes us take a harder look at the other predictions and issue they discuss, to see if those things are coming down the road toward us, still just over the horizon.

For that reason, I sometimes feel like I have to avoid publishing what seems absolutely true to me. I no longer believe it’s impossible for American citizens to be rounded up in the middle of the night for opposing the power structure in this country. The unbelievable fiction I see playing out on the news channels these days suggest to me that the men and woman who have hijacked our Government are dropping all pretense about what they are doing. When I see Barney Frank berating the new ($1 per year) CEO of AIG for paying bonuses that the TARP allowed, and demanding the names of the people who did not return them, is it unreasonable to imagine doors kicked in at 2am?

Am I the only one who is disgusted by the holier than thou attitude of a man who was a regulator of this industry demanding justice for things that happened when he was watching? Am I the only one disgusted by this attitude from a man who had a gay prostitution ring being run out of his house by his live-in lover not that many years ago?

“We get the government we deserve,” the old saying goes. At what point will enough people who don’t live in states clueless enough to elect the likes of Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd say no more?

Then, things will get really interesting.

Posted in Corruption, Economy, Politics
Tags: Barney Frank, Christopher Dodd, Corruption, Depression, Obama, TARP

Morons Leading

First of all, let me state my opinion.

Christopher Dodd is the worst kind of leader we could possibly have. What kind of chump takes a “sweetheart deal” from Countryside when he oversees that industry’s regulation (or lack thereof)? I know, I know, that’s the whole POINT of getting elected to Congress, to feed at the trough of graft. I get that. But, jeesh, Chris. Be a little more shamed, would you?

Now, he’s calling for the resignation of the head of GM as a condition of bailout.

Okay. Dodd and Obama say things like Obama did on TV today:

“The big three U.S. automakers have made repeated strategic mistakes,” Obama said. “They have not managed that industry the way they should have.” Any financial aid must be “conditioned on them making significant adjustments.”

Is he kidding? What business has he or Dodd ever run that he can make statements like that? Where did these geniuses, almost all of them in Congress there because they couldn’t make the kind of living they can get stealing from the taxpayers, relying on their business acumen or hard work in the private sector, get their business savvy?

What business do they have telling anybody anything? Wasn’t Dodd part of the oversight of the financial industry (hence, the kickbacks and sweetheart mortgages he got) that is melting down? Wasn’t he talking about how healthy it was when there were those ringing alarms about Fannie and Freddie, only to be beaten down and called idiots for their opinions that we were heading for disaster?

Christopher Dodd is a failed regulator, and should be given no oversight of anything more important than a mop, but I’m sure he’d screw that up as well.

Amazing.

Posted in Corruption, Economy, Politics
Tags: Bailout, Big Three, Christopher Dodd, Politics