The World Is Setting a Really Bad Example

[mallorys_camera]

I’d feel even worse about my life falling apart if the whole world wasn’t falling apart right along with it.

Netanyahu? NETANYAHU? What are those Israelis thinking? This would be the equivalent of digging up Nixon's corpse and cloning it in time for America's 2012 election. Hasn’t Netanyahu taken enough bribes, misused enough public funds, obstructed enough justice, botched enough assassination attacks? Oh, wait – he hasn’t started World War III yet! Of course! He needs to be back in office so he can bomb-bomb-bomb bomb-bomb Iran now that there’s been a change in the US administration. (It’s a tough job but somebody has to do it.)

Also, I watched that Rick Santelli CNBC snip. At first you might think, yep – man has a point.

Here’s why he doesn’t:

Bush’s Wall Street bailout. Where the same logic – why should we reward bad behavior? – also applied.

Honestly no amount of imaginary money is going to make any of this go away. But if the government is willing to throw bank at uber-rich miscreants, it needs to be willing to do the same thing for poorer miscreants. That’s parity.

Not a whole lot to report on the day by day. I have conquered the eggplant. I have perfected the art of silver leafing. I have a shitload of things I have to do and yet I do none of it, I float above it. Hel-lo! The world is in worse shape than I am, and you don’t see it scurrying about on self-improvement projects! As above, so below.

Comments

[gringo-in-tj.livejournal.com]

"Honestly no amount of imaginary money is going to make any of this go away. But if the government is willing to throw bank at uber-rich miscreants, it needs to be willing to do the same thing for poorer miscreants. That’s parity."

It's politics. Here's the thing that pisses me off: I fully expected for social programs to be implimented, it's what Democratic administrations do. Their constituency demands it. But to tuck it into a bill and call it "economic recovery" is a lie. The Bush administration also lied, about the Iraq war, and about their bailouts. There's the parity.

I wanted the new shiny guy to be honest, and so far it's the same thing as the last guy.

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. My favorite irony in retrospect is all the posturing the Obamatrons did about the need for a more transparent govt. Ha ha ha!

But honestly, I don't care if it is politics. The govt can't bail out the rich folk and leave the poor folk to stew. That's not fair. What was Santelli saying back in Nov 2008 is what I want to know. Was he against the massive bank bailout? If so, then I can respect him.

[gringo-in-tj.livejournal.com]

I agree.