Bailout this...

Is this still the United States of America or did I wake up in a cheap Peking hotel with a coyote ugly woman and a bad hangover after a night of partying at a Socialist International convention? What the hell are we taxpayers doing even considering allowing those incompetent bastards from Washington to hand out our money like Halloween candy to those gluttonous bastards from Wall Street and Detroit? Adam Smith must be rolling over in his grave over our apathy. Karl Marx must be dancing in his.

So let me get this straight, while we Americans are losing our shirts in our retirement funds, Congress has managed to give billions of our dollars to the likes of AIG, who parties at our expense with all the capriciousness of a frat house, and are poised to pay themselves breathtaking bonuses this Christmas. Now our Congressional brain trust is actually considering throwing another twenty-five billion more of our hard-earned bucks to “The Big Three.” That would be the same American auto industry that thumbed their noses and snickered at the onslaught of their Japanese competitors for years, cowered from the United Auto Workers for decades, and then boarded private jets to fly to Washington with their collective grubby hands held out. So in a feigned act of fiscal sanity, Congress told them to go back and work on their business plan and come back later on a commercial airline – in other words, grovel a little bit more, let the American public swallow it whole, then come back and we’ll give you your money in exchange for the government owning your companies. And if you can’t pay it back we’ll just print more money.

And then there is Arnold Schwarzenegger using his considerable bulk to wedge his way to the front of line so that we might hand out even more money to that bowl of granola we call California – you know, what ain’t fruits is nuts. He just doesn’t know how he can continue to pay for everything without a bailout from Congress.

And all the while we, the American populace, just keeps fiddling away while our country burns around us. How did that work out for Nero? Why don’t we just outsource Congress?

Does it ever occur to any of you morons asking for bailouts to consider cutting something? Rather than more, how about doing with less for awhile? Doesn’t anybody have the moral fiber to stand up, show some common sense, and say “NO – let them go broke if they can’t manage their businesses?” Does it ever come to your feeble minds that if you don’t have the money, you go without? Stop paying the considerable expenses of illegal aliens Arnold! Ford CEO “Big Al” Mullaly, you don’t deserve a $30 million salary when running your company in the ground and asking for our money. “Fast Eddy” Liddy at AIG – reel in the parties and massages on our dime dude, you’re broke! Hey, Ronnie Gettelfinger at the UAW, the gutless leadership at the Big Three can’t afford your wage demands and irresponsible rules – back off buddy! Could all of you put your greed and avarice aside to think of our country and grand children long enough to ride out this storm?

And finally, let’s not forget Chris Dodd and Barney Frank – the two headed trolls of fiscal irresponsibility. There will be a day of reckoning for you two meatheads (dead from the neck up). Through bluster and bullying, you may very well successfully hide from your culpability in your lifetimes, but just as Herbert Hoover is historically linked to the Great Depression, your descendants will forever be saddled with your responsibility in this fiasco boys.