Paulson For President!

Get up and grab your ankles America! It's time for Bail Out -O-Rama!

The show where just about everybody can get a bail out from Uncle Sam regardless of liability or culpability.

And here is your host, the man with the money, Paaatt Paauullllson!

Oh yeah, that's right, it's Henry Paulson. But we might be better off if it were Pat Paulson. At least when Pat was running for prez back in the Smothers Brothers days we all knew that it was satire. But with the great economic implosion of 08 we seem to have lost our sense of irony. The spread the wealth mentality adopted through various government initiatives, meddling and Wall Street stupidity created the present crisis. Now to the rescue comes none other than, you guessed it, the guvmint. And the master plan is...what? More spreading of the proverbial wealth? More nationalization?

Now Henry the wise and the nimble is pirouetting to allow the treeelllion dollar bail out to include credit card companies (with some subterfuge). What's next, a bail out for the Nevada brothels? Frankly, I'd rather see the hookers get the money before American Express.

How about taking that cool trillion and rebuilding the infrastructure of the USA: dams, roads, bridges and such. Put it out to bid for American private industry, thus creating jobs for AMERICAN CITIZENS, who in turn pay taxes and purchase goods and services, which creates demand for more labor, businesses, etc, etc. The answer to "the crisis" lies in unleashing American ingenuity and the American worker, and not in crisis mongering and punishing achievement. The guvmint's idea of spreading the wealth is based on taking from those who achieve and not creating more achievers. Not much hope in that change.

So with the help of Chicken Little (Crisis!) we've hired the fox (Paulson) to guard the hen house (our tax money). When Pat Paulson did his shtick, he did it with a wink and a smile. As absurd as the Bail Out-O-Rama is, I keep expecting Henry Pauslon to break out into a rendition of Money when announcing the latest contestant who has "come on down" for a bail out. But so far we've seen no wink and no smile, just more government.