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I said it before, that many economic issues are fabricated, and I think that the Big Car CEOs arriving in Private Jets, to plead Congress for Billions in bailout money, supports my case again. What do they think we are?! Turkeys?!
My vote for Obama was an attempt, however ridiculous, to vote against such asinine concepts, as bailing out people who lack sensible principles and reasonable judgment. $25 billion will do better to support the workers in those car industries who may need help when the Car Industries go belly up.
Financial problem are not new nor unique. The picture on the right pays tribute to such wackiness. From Commons.Wikimedia.org:
A Thanksgiving Tour
1907 editorial cartoon for Thanksgiving Holiday from the Daily Picayune newspaper of New Orleans. A turkey is depicted driving an automobile through a fence labeled Financial Flurry; a road sign says To Prosperity. Reference is to the Panic of 1907, with hopes that prosperity is ahead.
Originally published in The Daily Picayune Newspaper, late November, 1907
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The picture of Stephen Colbert: click to see his endorsement.
I also endorse Barack Obama and Joseph Biden.
[This bit is added Nov 19th.]
Well we won, didn’t we? It’s about time too. I was nevertheless startled by how close the popular vote was. The world got its wish too (as I understand it the Worldwide popular support for Obama was over 70%—but I don’t have a good link, leave one in comments if you have one please).
I modified the colors on this website, and, as I did, I wondered suddenly about my allegiance. I am American again. Hmm. The Republican Administration is so far removed from my life and lifestyle that I gritted and hated, spitefully, every bit of politics in the last 8 years. Now I am vindicated.