No, I’m not going to blog about the debate. It made me pretty nauseous. Other than being mildly happy that McDumbass finally grew some testicles and confronted Obama head on about his questionable associations with festering, anti-American douchebags such William Ayers, it was unimpressive. I was particularly annoyed at the part where the two of them whined, moaned and bitched at each other about the fact that their supporters are assholes. “Your supporters were MEEEEEAAAAAAAN to me! That’s just not riiiiiiiiight!”
Waah. Shutcher yap! No one gives a shit.
In any case, I ran across this little tidbit in the news this morning.
First there was the $440,000 American Insurance Group Inc. spent entertaining executives days after receiving an $85 billion lifeline from the Federal Reserve, now it’s $86,000 for a hunting trip in England as the faltering company reaped another $37.8 billion in taxpayer funded loans.
News of the hunting trip emerged Wednesday as New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo ordered AIG to do away with golden parachutes for executives, golf outings and parties while taking government money to stay afloat.
“Even after the taxpayer-funded bailout of AIG, the company paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for luxurious retreats for its executives, including an overseas hunting party and a golf outing,” Cuomo wrote in a letter to the New York-based insurer.
Your tax dollars at work, people! This is what the politicians you put into office supported! Your tax dollars bailing out shitty decisionmaking and corporate corruption and greed – at your expense! Let me repeat that: AT YOUR EXPENSE!
McCain, who can’t seem to find his own ass with two hands and a flashlight when it comes to bailouts, at first claimed that we can’t keep using taxpayer funds to bail out companies, but then softened his stance, like an idiot parent with an ornery child: Well, this was necessary, but we are going to clamp down, regulate more, and this won’t happen again. I keep visualizing a political cartoon in which McCain is holding a big ole lollypop or some other kind of treat marked “bailout” behind his back as he sternly speaks to a Dennis the Menace-type kid representing AIG and other big companies, and wags his finger in reproach, pretending he’ll get tough with his naughty kid from now on.
Spare me.
And the Anointed One’s stance is pretty much to nationalize everything and let the government run it, because obviously a government made up of the least common denominators, chosen by a populace of which the majority couldn’t name the current Vice President, that couldn’t even makea profitrunning a brothel and sellingbooze and hookers in a state where it is legal, is the ideal entity to run our financial system.
Spare me.
I was fascinated this morning by a comment that was recently posted here by AgPilot60.
What can we say except, “the ballot box is broken”. Thing is, I’m not a resident of Virginia, but I never would have voted for him anyway. Due to other comments I’m reading around and some comments I’m hearing personally, when the ballot box breaks it is time for much more serious efforts,,,,or just forget it and go quietly into the night and get ready for the chains.
So here’s my question to you, the readers: Is it the ballot box that is broken, or those who use it?
We have a tendency to get angry at the political parties, the media, those in power, who ensure with near 100 percent certainty that incumbents get the upper hand in elections and that career fatass politicians remain eligible to suck at the public teat for decades. It’s an understandable rage, but is our anger misplaced?
Is it the system, or the populace that’s beyond help?
Isn’t it those who blindly follow the party line, regardless of actual position who are responsible for bringing the same old stale crap to Washington year after year?
Isn’t it those who can’t even identify a candidate’s views on anything of substance who trudge to the polls election after election and vote for the guy with the best manicure, the nicest suit, the best hair or the “R” or “D” behind his name who are ultimately to blame for the GOP putting forth a pseudo-socialist “Maverick,” whose biggest claim to fame is his POW status and later being the co-author of one of the most odious pieces of legislation to shred the First Amendment to little, unrecognizable bits ever created?
Who’s to blame for our lack of choices? Is it the party that throws its support to the more “moderate,” while betraying the ideals upon which this nation was founded, and skewing the advantage in favor of those candidates who are willing to compromise away our rights, our freedoms and our principles? Or is it your average voter who either a) doesn’t have a clue about the candidate’s views and simply votes for the “R” or the “D” or b) has a clue, but is so afraid of the opponent, that he will hold his nose and vote for the lesser of two evils, thus rewarding the unprincipled compromiser with a vote and thereby providing no incentive for change?
You tell me.
