When major industries are making money hand over fist, we’re told to leave them alone – anything that stops them from racking up windfall profits is bad for the economy.
When they don’t save for a rainy day, or mismanage themselves into the ground, we’re told we have to bail them out – anything resembling consequences for their actions would be bad for the economy.
It’s good to know that in sickness and in health, in fair weather and foul, it’s virtually guaranteed that money will flow upward, from the hands of the many to the hands of the few, and that, this being vital for the good of the economy, it’s being entrenched immutably into our system.
It’s also good to know that a storm over whether Obama called Palin a pig or not is the top political story on the news, and not outrage over the taxpayer-funded bailout of a bunch of greedy asshats who treated mortgages like they were rent-to-own televisions, to be sold to anyone who stood still long enough and registered a pulse.
Sarah Palin didn’t know what Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac did, or how they did it, and you want her to run the country. Why don’t you just take this to its logical conclusion, and install Jenna Jameson and Ron Jeremy in the White House, with camera in every room and Gary Coleman as Secretary of Defense?
We’re entertained, the money gets wicked upward and magnetically follows other money, and as long as the house of (credit) cards doesn’t topple over this week or next, who cares, right?
By the time this actually starts becoming a real mess – when we go from wondering how to pay for our plasma TVs and start, like, missing meals – it’s going to be too late to fix it. Whose fault will it be then? How seriously will we take it when it’s too far gone to matter?
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