Posted by
The INFORMER (Cokie907@yahoo.com) on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 3:38:02 PM
I know you've not heard "boo" from me since the St. Patrick's Day holiday and no, I haven't been in a Guiness-induced drunken stupor since that time. I've just been out enjoying the highly acclaimed and much sought after "global warming" that has infested the East Tennessee region with a vengeance. How sweet it is!
But there's much to discuss and let us continue with my recurring theme about war on the private sector, by government in general but with an added zest under the steady and measured hand of King Obama or as I like to call him: Dumbo the Puppet. Keep in mind that the modus operandi of "Dumbo" is to "spread the wealth around, you know" as he so eloquently told Joe (the plumber) while walking the streets of a town in Ohio. This financial calamity is the perfect excuse and he shall not waste it while pursuing his goal.
AIG, the insurance giant (or once was...) is the perfect target since it is a faltering symbol of the wealth created in private sector America. The plan was to buy up AIG, bring it back from the brink and along the way, demonize it's greedy employees. By doing so, the case can be made that government intervention is needed in ALL PRIVATE SECTOR BANKING to monitor rampant greed and avoid the future calamity that such greed can bring about. So how does a marxist demagogue justify such a grandiose move whose constitutionality is questionable to say the very least.
Here's an idea: You insert wording into a piece of bailout legislation that gives millions of dollars in taxpayer money as bonuses to the same AIG executives who were responsible for the financial calamity at the insurance giant. Then you react with righteous indignation as the populace (littered with dunderheaded douchebags mind you) is enraged by the bonuses. You say "we need to tax these people at a 90 percent tax rate if they won't give back the money" so that the populace will know that you are on their side.
Those of you who pay attention to things other than "American Idol" and "The Biggest Loser" are remembering the firestorm over this AIG bonus scandal and thinking to yourself: "There's no way in heck that the Democrats did this on PURPOSE!" Before you quickly dismiss my hypothesis, chew on this thought for a minute. Most of our electorate is clueless about financial matters and even more clueless when it comes to political matters. When news of these AIG bonuses broke across America, it was simple enough for people to grasp one central theme: Fat cats on Wall Street were given muti-million dollar bonuses with the taxpayer dollars of hard working Americans.
If there's one thing that enrages people, it is the suspicion of unfair treatment, especially when the human emotion of envy is involved. We heard stories of people threatening the AIG executives with strangulation or other forms of reprisal, picketers harrassed the families and bus tours were arranged to visit some of their homes in Fairfield, CT. Democrats must be mighty proud of their secret plot which nobody can prove, no matter how hard they try. Let's say today, some Meat and Potatoes Loyalist on Capitol Hill suggests that Democrats put that bonus package in the stimulus bill ON PURPOSE. Barney Frank would offer up an immediate denial and call the person an absolute loon who needs medication fast!
Think about it folks, it's brilliant! Marxist demagogues like today's Democrat party leadership know just how to "wag the dog". After all, they had alot of practice during the Clinton years! :-) Overall, the American public is convinced that the private sector is dominated by greedy SOB's and government intervention is just what we need to establish FAIRNESS. AIG was the "fall guy" needed to manipulate the emotions of the American taxpayer. Timothy Geithner's plan to offer up toxic bank assets to the public, unvelied yesterday, is just a head fake and OBAMA DOES NOT WANT THIS PLAN TO SUCCEED!! That way, the case can be made for nationalization of the banking system and the socialist's dream of utopian wealth redistribution can be achieved.