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so yesterday, still reeling from the healthcare coup d'etat, i came across a washington post headline that left me with my mouth hanging open:
"what the fuck?" i asked myself.
i went back to retrieve the article for tonight's post, and could find it nowhere--in its previous form, anyway. i did, however, find essentially the same story with today's date, under the following headline:
see how much nicer that one reads? (guess they got a call.) the first paragraph of the story, however, was the same:
The Obama administration plans to overhaul how it is tackling the foreclosure crisis, in part by requiring lenders to temporarily slash or eliminate monthly mortgage payments for many borrowers who are unemployed, senior officials said Thursday.[emphasis mine]
i asked a few people today what they thought about the government ordering private industry around like that, and the general consensus was basically, "well somebody needs to--and besides, isn't it good he's helping those poor folks who are out of work?"
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what i can't get over is the stunning speed with which it's happened. we're not moving toward fascism anymore--hell, we're there, and the only people who seem to care are all marginalized by the media as borderline-domestic terrorists.
i watch the dems preen and crow over their recent ugly healthcare win, which effectively ensured that nobody'll need 60 votes in the senate to get anything passed ever again--one more element of the founders' carefully planned system of checks and balances effectively destroyed.
thus exhilirated and emboldened by this new lowered standard--hell, even crazy shit can get 51 votes--i see john kerry dusting off his global warming bill, which would give the government--in addition to control over the automotive, financial services and healthcare industries they presently enjoy--control of the energy sector as well.
and coming down the pike after that? chuck schumer and lindsay graham are already testing the waters for their new, improved amnesty bill which will effectively grant citizenship, full benefits and the right to legitimately compete with naturalized americans for ever-fewer jobs to 15-20 million illegal immigrants (oh, and give the dems 15-20 million new voters--but who's counting?).
never mind that the vast majority of americans hate both these ideas, they'll just do what nancy and harry did with healthcare--arm-twist it through the house, pass it in the senate with reconciliation, and set it so that the ugly doesn't kick in for 4-5 years, by which time nobody'll blame them for it.
on second thought, the post really shouldn't have bothered to tone down their headline--america doesn't care anymore.
5 comments:
How's it going for you guttermorality?
Does not sound too good, huh?
Obama (or Bush for that matter) did not nationalize the banks. Instead, the federal government created corporate welfare.
I'm not sure this is any different from the Bush Administrative failing to approve any effective regulations of industries and squashing health and safety regulations as too onerous or expensive for corporations.
Contrary to your rant, most voters are angry about all of the corporate bail outs and angry about the huge banks who got all this money from the taxpayer and then jacked up everyone's credit card bills.
So, if there is a mob, it is definitely in support of greater oversight and regulation of corporate arrogance and malfeasance.
Not too many Americans reacted when George W. Bush rode roughshod over the Constitution for eight years, either. I’m not defending Obama/Pelosi here so much as pointing out that the aggressive grasp for, and achievement of, power by the Executive Branch is a trend that began many decades ago.
I keep hearing reports of Gallup polls that show a comfortable majority of Americans support HCR. But there have been so many outright lies, so much demagoguery, and now so much intimidation (including death threats – not shameful fear-tactic “death panels” but credible death threats) that I wonder if the truth about what HCR is and will mean in the future can ever be determined.
I have seen unruly mobs invade the Capitol, bigoted, disrespectful, and threatening. I do not like what this country has become, and I am sickened at the depths to which our legislative process has sunk. I fear we have not hit rock bottom yet.
I don't talk my views of politics much, because with my constituents, I always come across as a 'bring down'. I do agree with a lot of your views. It's so over with this country. It's not going, it's gone. Socialism? I go as far as borderline police state. Because, I've been outsides it's borders long enough looking in. When I began reading this post, the switcharoo with the headline - first thing that came to mind was "Wasn't that what Winston Smith did for a living?" As I get older, I get so depressed at what I see what is going on around me on a political level...
noblesavage: you know the day i knew our current president wasn't interested in really fixing the financial mess? answer: the day he announced his choice for treasury secretary--and everything he's done since has only served to confirm that impression.
if you really think this populist, playing-to-the-bleachers dumbass shit he's doing now constitutes the type of "oversight and regulation" that is actually desperately needed in the financial sector, then you're dreaming.
will: actually, the "stunning speed" to which i referred encompasses the era beginning (a) in the late 90's when clinton and a handful of senate republicans trashed the legal safeguards which had kept us safe from "too big to fail" institutions since the depression; (b) continues through the entirety of the benign neglect and constitutional-trampling of the bush administration; and (c) culminates in the obama administration's actions to date.
what, a dozen or so years and three administrations from there to here? that's stunning speed in my book.
luis: the way i've long figured, we're one good suicide bombing away from martial law--see my next post.
oh, and luis: yeah, winston smith is very much alive and well ;)
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