Robbing Peter to Pay Paul...

usually results in a sore Peter...so used to say an old co-worker of mine back during my corporate days. The Trillion dollar bail out of the federally created Fannie and Freddie seems to be a transaction of that type. The result will most certainly be a sore, and may I add, depleted Peter (Tax paying citizens). The bloated bureaucratic pols that wired together these nasty twins in a government funded laboratory are now urging US taxpayers to bail them out, lest we suffer catastrophic financial ruin. Under what credibility are these swollen politicos operating? For 30 years they handed out cash to anyone with a heartbeat- all in the guise of "making the American dream available to everyone"- (vote buying is more accurate) and now comes the realization that a lot of those "clients" were not capable of, and in many cases, not worthy of receiving the largess. And many of our dear leaders knew that prickly fact from the rancid beginning, but did nothing to stop it. But, now that the cat burping feathers (mixed metaphor alert) is out of the canary cage, our government can only offer socialism as an answer.

I sarcastically ask, are we paying these guys too much?

The entire ruse reminds me of the scene in the movie Ransom when Mel Gibson comes to the cold realization that the kidnappers will kill his son regardless if he pays off. Likewise, if we bail out Washington, then they'll kill us with encroaching Marxism and it's ugly children, political correctness and multiculturalism, or if we let the "banks" fail...well, who knows? What will our government kidnappers give us in return for the ransom? An economic corpse so decayed that the free market DNA needed to rebuild it is worthless?

And the up coming election offers no respite: The Obamassiah himself has benefited handsomely from the purveyors of this governmental shell game; and judging by BHO's taxpayer gouging, community organizing past, we can nauseatingly assume that, should he become POTUS, a big, fat and growing government sow would be a veritable greased groove in which to install Obamatopia . And about half the voters are in favor of eating this crap burger. Dayum.

And whether Raines, Johnson and Gorelick are Obamatrons are not, they all floated gently down to earth on golden parachutes as Freddie and Fannie blew sky high under their so called leadership. Isn't the Enron treatment available for these thieves? I hear crickets chirping.

And Citizen McCain doesn't get off either. He has been a senator for three hundred years and nary a peep about this massive scam he surely knew was occurring. Mr. reach across the aisle, war hero McCain is part of the problem no doubt. I've said it here before.

So it's time to grab your ankles America, it's time squeal like a pig. But there is no reason for despair or to plead for your life or to wallow in misery. After all, we are complicit. We the people have consciously entrusted more and more of our money and our freedom to Washington. We have sacrificed our individualism on the state's funeral pyre and now we are recoiling at the burning stench of it as it blows back into our faces.




UPDATE: The idiocracy in DC takes a day off and the stock market soars nearly 600 points. Well, they're back to work today promising to spend billions of taxpayers dollars (with zero accountability) to "fix" the "crisis" (the one they created) and like magic the stock market starts heading back down. Coincidence? I think not.