More theft and graft.

[loveable liberal]

Just as the Iraq war was used to steal public funds and launder them through Halliburton, the same modus operandi can be seen in the fall of the markets. Bushco has proposed a 700 billion dollar bailout of the financial markets with no oversight. The problem is, the Democrats might just do it.

How far must we fall? How valuable are these people that risk other peoples money? I don't pretend to know everything about economics, but I'd like to know where all the money went. It had to go somewhere right? Where is Halliburton keeping all its (our) money? In a USB bank in Switzerland? I heard an interesting line the other day: Socialized Risk. It means that taxpayers bail out distressed financial markets. This is what conservatives are proposing. They can deal with socialized risk but have a problem when it comes to health and education? Try explaining that to an ill informed but strident right winger. They cant even grasp the concept!

The bottom line is that in order to steal funds bushco needs chaos. Whats more, it appears they will steal the funds with the blessings of Congress. Now might be the time in which our country absolutely needs radical change.

In my household we live basically from check to check, and though my job is a crappy one, I have no fear of downsizing. Adam Smith might have been accurate to describe the 'invisible hand'; this might be a massive economic 'correction' required by the market. No doubt there would be suffering, I guess it would all depend on if you want to slowly pull or rip off the band-aid.

Finally, I spent some time reading "The Prince" by Machiavelli. It is absolutely frightening how that book mirrors our current neo-con agenda. Lie to stay in power and war is acceptable foreign policy. I heard one day on Ed Schultz' show that Karl Rove reads "The Prince" every year. Somebody needs to stop bushco and his followers before the world deems us unnecessary.