The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what’s coming now. The party’s over, folks. . .
– Hunter S. Thompson
Old pic of me from the Israeli Navy
This pic is how the current events in the US is making me feel. Since the S&L rip off way back when, the US has fallen further and further down Dante's levels of corruption and disregard for the people to a point that it's difficult to imagine a lower level.
A government "by the people for the... people?" Can anyone in their right mind hear that phrase and even pretend to believe it anymore? A government by the Corps. for the Corps., but even that's too optimistic.
Let GM fail, but not AIG or Goldman Sacks. The US is favoring sleazy traders over manufacturers that actually PRODUCE things people can use.
Even Pat Buchanan agrees... Enough is enough!
No private entity should be "too big to fail." The managers of these entities reap the billions of their high risk profit and the taxpayers cover the trillions of their losses....
I worked to convince Barak Obama to run and had really high hopes that he would be the change that would halt the avalanche in this economic sand pile, straight out of complexity theory.
So far he has proven to be the "weak sister" of reform. Too little, too late seems to be his modus operandi.
We needed a Winston Churchill to save us and we so far seem to have gotten a Chamberlain.
Go ahead, email and call your reps. But be prepared for what's going to happen if they don't wake up and put an end to this abuse. Trust me, it's not going to be pretty... And it isn't that far away.
Sitting here in Tel Aviv, under the threat of an immanent war with Iran is beginning to feel like a "lessor of two evils" to me.
God bless and help the people of the United States of America to save our country.