i wrote a pretty darn good (if i do say so myself!) post at a candid world about paulson’s plan to use all $700 billion of bailout money to capitalize banks and consumer-credit companies. i think the idea sucks. also, i mention the NOT LEGAL move treasury made by amending the tax code so banks can avoid paying upwards of $140 billion in taxes.
i am posting here about it, because i want my friends and family to be educated on the crap-ass stuff that is going on re: the economy. essentially, the bush administration has zero skill in dealing with economic crises. hopefully, the obama administration will be able to right many of the wrongs.
i know the subject is dense and intimidating, but don’t be afraid to arm yourself with knowledge!
BUT we somehow got linked to a post from a blog on the fox news site. holy cow! i understand the search engines just look for similar words, but the irony! …
we’ll be back with updates very soon! been waaayyyyy busy. had an awesome weekend with b-day adventure and an amazing visit from grandpa chuck! more later …
Barack bought a half-hour of prime time on network T.V. next Wednesday night. Here is how I think he should use it: A few minutes laying out the basics of what he will do for country … tax cuts for everyone making less than $250k, investment in infrastructure, green energy.
Then …
He should say, “In these troubling economic times, what everyone could use is a little humor. Please enjoy my favorite episode of The Simpsons commercial free.”
Here are some suggestions, with no significance other than that they are favorites here at Didionville.
we are coming right out and saying it: WE are leftist, liberal, and anti-american, and thanks to ACORN, we can vote for as many leftist, liberal anti-americans as we want, as often as we want. (oh, AND we have ALREADY bred! bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha!)
see, according to recent republican rhetoric, all three of these descriptors are interchangeable. we even live in (what we suspect) is an anti-american state. palin knows an anti-american state from a pro-american state:
if you, too, are leftist, liberal, and anti-american, please get in touch with us. we need to come up with a secret handshake ASAP.
in the meantime check out this exchange between chris matthews and representative michelle bachmann (r-mn) on hardball yesterday (got this from salon):
MATTHEWS: How many members of Congress, do you think are in that anti-American crowd you describe? How many congresspeople you serve with? I mean, there’s 435 members of Congress…
BACHMANN: You’d have to ask them, Chris. I’m focusing on Barack Obama and the people that he’s been associating with. And I’m very worried…
MATTHEWS: But do you suspect there are a lot of people you serve with?
BACHMANN: … about their anti-American nature.
MATTHEWS: Well, he’s a United States senator from Illinois. He’s one of the people you suspect as being anti-American. How many people in the Congress of the United States do you think are anti-American? You’ve already suspected Barack Obama. Is he alone or are there others? How many do you suspect of your colleagues as being anti- American?
BACHMANN: What I would say — what I would say is that the news media should do a penetrating expose and take a look. I wish they would. I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America or anti- America? I think people would be — would love to see an expose like that.
is not a licensed plumber, which makes me suspicious that he can even buy an existing, successful plumbing business. he owes back taxes. interestingly, he currently is also eligible for a tax break under obama’s plan. he is registered to vote under a different spelling of his last name, which should worry ohio republicans who are bound and determined that not one typo will enable gross voter fraud. i mean, if joe’s vote doesn’t count … (UPDATE: looks like joe will be able to vote unharassed after all. more details here.)
during the debate, steven and i were trying to figure out this guy’s story … he is so successful on his own as a plumber that he has an AGI of over $250K? … or he wants to buy a business that turns over a net profit of $250K annually? whichever scenario, we’d take it even with an increased income-tax encumbrance.
as it turns out, though, joe’s story is not quite what he briefly represented in his exchange with obama, and even if it were, joe’s insistence that it is absolutely, positively wrong to tax success implies that success happens in a vacuum, separate and independent from societal inputs and constructs.
joe is wrong.
joe ought to go get his professional license and stop undermining his professional brethren.
