NY, meet DC
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awesome picture! naked chick and sea creatures.
the Bush administration, and by extension, the Treasury secretary, is getting pissed that the legislation for a $700 billion bailout of Wall Street banks isn’t moving fast enough through Congress. but many in Congress — and that’s congressmen from all over the landscape — don’t seem to give a shit.
last week when Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke went to the Captiol and said the national economy was going to melt right through the floor like a steaming pile of radioactive shit if the government didn’t float investment bankers the largest loan to the private sector in the history of the country, a handful of the attending senators and congressmen emerged to talk about how this was the gravest thing any of them had ever faced in decades of legislation.
“we have to act now.”
“we can come together to work pass this legislation.”
“this is a national emergency, and we will put bipartisanship aside, and get this done.”
“because if we don’t, we’re all going to die and it’s going to be 1929 all over again.”
“and who wants to eat shoe leather? ”
“do you want to eat shoe leather? fuck no you don’t.”
“because failure to act will be a sin the American people will not forget.”
“we need to act now. jesus christ, before we all die.”
but that’s all over with, four days later. the urgency’s still there, but the factions are back.
so. instead of another three or four paragraphs of sophomoric attempts at sarcasm, I’ll get right to the point.
and this is only with the knowledge of this financial crisis as I’ve followed it in the newspapers. but here it is, the run-on sentence you will some day meet in hell:
Rushing through Congress a $700 billion loan to Wall Street – Wall Street, that place most of us rank somewhere on the loathing scale between an afternoon at the DMV and walking through the corner of your back yard that’s full of dogshit — without even attempting to reign it in with further oversight and the basest of guarantees that those cocksuckers won’t exploit the American taxpayer any further than the loan already does (like extending the program to include credit-card debt and predatory car loans and guaranteeing that executive compensation won’t be impugned) …
… takes long, hard slug of whiskey …
… rushing this bill through Congress would be the most boneheaded, asshole move since our elected officials did the same thing with the authorization of the Iraq war in 2003. especially so, as there’s absolutely no certainty at all that this plan to buy up all of the financial market’s fuckups will actually work. so hooray that Congress isn’t just signing off on it.
that’s all. that’s how I feel about it.
oh, and in case the actions of the uberwealthy and the damage it could possibly do to the conomy hasn’t caused you stress-related migraines yet, read this article that details what the financial industry thinks of all of this wrangling.
this is my favorite article of all in this post, so if you are to click on anything, please click on this one. it promotes such a visceral reaction of disgust and loathing for bankers that I actually find it hard to describe.
so, simply: fuck them. whoever they are.
to end: I’ve been writing on this blog for nearly four years now, and I’m back where I started: outrage at things I don’t understand. bad attempts at sarcasm. poor grammar, poorer metaphors. walls, that I build.
