I just love it when the multi-millionaires in the Repugnant party lecture us little people on financial responsibility. Over the last few weeks, while hundreds of thousands of their fellow citizens have been losing their jobs and homes, the GOP (God's Own Party) in a sudden revival of the Puritan work ethic has exhorted us little people to tighten our belts, pull ourselves together, and to quote Cher in Moonstruck: "Snap out of it". It's our fault.
They have told us that we have to adjust to the new economic realities brought down upon us by our foolishly electing Barack Obama as president. None of this would have ever happened if they were still in control and John McCain were president. It's all our own fault. Nobody forced us to try to achieve the American Dream and have our own houses (predatory lending practices notwithstanding). If we are in default on our mortgages, it's our own fault. If we had been good Americans we would have bought the shitty cars Gm, Ford, and Chrysler have been churning out by the millions. Now the government has to save these great icons of American industry. It's our fault.
And because we were stupid enough to dabble in the stock market which is way beyond our simple minds to understand and have lost most or all of our investments, too bad. It's our fault. Even when we were shown a few years back how Wall Street and the rest of the financial community are out to screw us (Enron, anyone? Buehler, Buehler?), we still tried to make a fast buck like the big kids. It's our fault.
And if we hadn't filled out every credit card offer we got in the mail (average 5 per day), we wouldn't be so deep in debt that we can't even make the minimum payment every month. And that's why the government has to bail out all the banks who have lost billions in bad loans and credit card debt. It's our fault.
As they metaphorically look down upon the devastation that has been wrought, like George Bush over Louisiana after Katrina, they shake their heads and tsk-tsk. "Those poor little people. You know they really do look just like ants from up here. But it's their own fault."