Steven P. BarrettHALLOWEEN CAME EARLY KIDS, NO TREATS, JUST A WITCH
September 29th 2008 22:39
By Steven Barrett
Halloween came early for the big kids on Capitol Hill, Wall Street and eventually a Main Street near you., Unfortunately the ill-effects of what one woman possessing a strong resembence to the Wicked Witch of the Wizard of Oz may be felt for a long time to come.
But what the hell does she care. She's set for life with a nice fat federal pension, and a health care package she talks about making available to the rest of us but ... well that's all she's capable of providing, a loud screeching piercing baleful of political bile that the rest of us have to stomach.
Does this woman below look familiar? It should because she and her big GD mouth had an enormously sour effect on many Representatives on both sides of the aisle...thus the already difficult to swallow $700B went down the tubes thanks to just a few words she could've easily saved for after the vote.
The damn maddening thing about it all is that I agree with her about the greed and stupidity behind all this finance economy that brought us to this precipice. What kind of "economy" do we have when we call pension programs and home equity loans "products" while our manufacturing jobs are shipped overseas? We're shylocking ourselvels and killing our jobs, but that was besides the point until after the vote was taken.
But no, Granny Nanny Pelosi had to shoot off her big mouth. Dammit lady.
The Boston Herald story does a better job of telling the sordid tale of politics at its worst than I can at this present moment.
Halloween came early for the big kids on Capitol Hill, Wall Street and eventually a Main Street near you., Unfortunately the ill-effects of what one woman possessing a strong resembence to the Wicked Witch of the Wizard of Oz may be felt for a long time to come.
But what the hell does she care. She's set for life with a nice fat federal pension, and a health care package she talks about making available to the rest of us but ... well that's all she's capable of providing, a loud screeching piercing baleful of political bile that the rest of us have to stomach.
Does this woman below look familiar? It should because she and her big GD mouth had an enormously sour effect on many Representatives on both sides of the aisle...thus the already difficult to swallow $700B went down the tubes thanks to just a few words she could've easily saved for after the vote.
The damn maddening thing about it all is that I agree with her about the greed and stupidity behind all this finance economy that brought us to this precipice. What kind of "economy" do we have when we call pension programs and home equity loans "products" while our manufacturing jobs are shipped overseas? We're shylocking ourselvels and killing our jobs, but that was besides the point until after the vote was taken.
But no, Granny Nanny Pelosi had to shoot off her big mouth. Dammit lady.
The Boston Herald story does a better job of telling the sordid tale of politics at its worst than I can at this present moment.
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Comment by Steven Barrett's OpEd Blog
Yet, inasmuch as I'm upset at Wall Street, we shouldn't overlook the dirty hands of people working on both K-Street and Main Street. Everybody's so concerned about Main Street (as well they should be) but also in the wrong way looking at our local bankers as helpless victims. Nonsense. How many of them sold out their neighbors' mortgages? How many of them were so gung ho on all the promises of greater development in their local towns and cities that they forgot that all this growth still had a price tag?
And what kind of a nation and society have we become when we treat financial services as "products" while we allow the fatcats and sleazy wheeler-dealers of hyper finance marketing ship our manufacturing jobs overseas because our workers "cost too much"?
The only reason companies started saying our workers "cost too much" is that the damn banks and loan mongers kept calling most of the shots, and telling their real product-producing companies that in order to become more competitive they have to kill American manufacturing jobs to send them to Mexico or some Third World country with little or no scruples insofar as how its workforce is treated.
Take a look at one of George Will's latest columns dealing with this mess. I don't have time to link it, but it's in Townhall.com. Now admittedly, Will comes off a bit huffy and frumpy at times, but in this instance, he's right on the mark.
But watching an interview conducted by Chris Cuomo of Marcy Kaptor (D-OH) and Drier (spelling? R-CA) I almost fell off the chair wondering who's been playing the switcheroo game. Kaptur is calling for a free-market disciplinary regiment like it was applied during the credit union crisis of the late 80s and her GOP counterpart was (while holding his nose) defending the bailout. Was there an inter -party trade of Representatives lately and it didn't make the sports, business or editorial page departments?
The more I keep hearing these "main street concerns" the more I wonder who's really behind the bailout. After all, Wall Street did bounch back 500 pts the day after the Big Crash of 08.
NOw, if the pols, the pundits and the scribes would just SHUT UP for a while. Who knows, that might get people to start pulling their wallets out again.