“'It was almost like listening to an old friend,' said Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Il.), adding that he found Castro’s home to be modest and Castro’s wife to be particularly hospitable. 'In my household I told Castro he is known as the ultimate survivor,' Rush said." Really? An old friend? I can picture it now...
...Good Ol' Fiddy hanging on the back porch at the Rushes home, sipping on ice tea when the phone rings. Fiddy excuses himself for a few minutes, and when he returns he tells his buddy Bobby that he just had to execute some dissenters, confiscate some property, and confirm the building plans of his 6th mansion. He and Bobby sit back and share a hearty chuckle. "All in a day's work," Fiddy says.
It's not enough that we've been doing everything to wreck our economy, and possibly our nation, but now we need to pump our dwindling American dollar into Communist Cuba so that the Castros can build a few more mansions. This may even end up working out better than the UN "Oil-for-Food" that blessed the Iraqi people SO much!
This follows our illustrious leaders "muscling" private institutions and determining their fates, screaming about bonuses for AIG when other failed institutions also paid out bonuses (some of them much larger bonuses!) during and after receiving bailout funds, yet all we hear is the uproar over AIG. I thought that "Turbo Tax" Timmy was a Treasury Secretary, not a mob boss. I'm not saying whether or not the bonuses should be paid, but that's something for the Board of Directors or the shareholders to decide, not the President or Congress. Even a failing company, however, will have good executives, and in order to get back on track the companies will need the good ones to help rebuild, but if they're not getting paid they'll likely go elsewhere. Did I fail to mention that the AIG CEO reduced his salary to $1 last year for 2008 and 2009 in conjunction with the bailouts?
It's embarrassing that Congress wrote the bonuses into the bill, yet when public opinion sways to anger against the bonuses members of Congress and the President himself jump on the bandwagon to help whip up the frenzy instead of maintaining heads. It wasn't until much later that we found that Congress already knew about the bonuses, and this after Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn) first denied writing it into the bill. Does anyone in Washington have any moral stability left?
The way to improve things is to let failing institutions fail, not give them government money that doesn't exist and help them hold on a little longer, only to see them drag the rest of the American economy down with them. These bailouts may work, though they've never been proven to work in the situation we're in now, but we'll have to wait and see. We also can't expect success with the government in charge of private institutions, hiring and firing who they will, determining salaries and bonuses, and messing things up in the way only the government knows how. They continue to slip their fingers into every industry they can in order to exert a tiny bit more control, all on a quiet path to fascism. At least with socialism, there isn't any hiding what the government is trying to do. Now we have a government that claims to be leaving things in the private sector, but all the while they take control inch by inch. It's no wonder that a Communist dictator is anxious to "help" the current administration. Soon we'll be hand-in-hand with Cuba. Hopefully the American people will shake off the haze of a good public speaker with a nice smile and wake up before it's too late. That's the kind of hope and change I'm looking forward to.
And now back to your regularly scheduled programming...
It's embarrassing that Congress wrote the bonuses into the bill, yet when public opinion sways to anger against the bonuses members of Congress and the President himself jump on the bandwagon to help whip up the frenzy instead of maintaining heads. It wasn't until much later that we found that Congress already knew about the bonuses, and this after Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn) first denied writing it into the bill. Does anyone in Washington have any moral stability left?
The way to improve things is to let failing institutions fail, not give them government money that doesn't exist and help them hold on a little longer, only to see them drag the rest of the American economy down with them. These bailouts may work, though they've never been proven to work in the situation we're in now, but we'll have to wait and see. We also can't expect success with the government in charge of private institutions, hiring and firing who they will, determining salaries and bonuses, and messing things up in the way only the government knows how. They continue to slip their fingers into every industry they can in order to exert a tiny bit more control, all on a quiet path to fascism. At least with socialism, there isn't any hiding what the government is trying to do. Now we have a government that claims to be leaving things in the private sector, but all the while they take control inch by inch. It's no wonder that a Communist dictator is anxious to "help" the current administration. Soon we'll be hand-in-hand with Cuba. Hopefully the American people will shake off the haze of a good public speaker with a nice smile and wake up before it's too late. That's the kind of hope and change I'm looking forward to.
And now back to your regularly scheduled programming...
How funny! James had the radio on while we were grouting and we heard that one too. I love your take on the current state of politics. Probably because we agree. I also enjoy the way you write - any chance you're going to be doing a piece on disarming our own nucs?
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