Truth in Sarcasm

Last weekend, SNL had a hilarious skit mocking the Big Three CEO’s trip to Capitol Hill. When asked if there was a plan for spending the requested $25 billion, the parodied CEOs responded by saying:

“The plan is to comeback on Dec 15th and ask for another $25 billion, then on January 1st we’ll ask for $50 billion, then 2 months later we’ll as for additional $100 billion.”

Obviously playing on the notion that these seemingly dense CEOs will wastefully spend the money and continue to come back to the taxpayer trough. There is definitely some truth to this. At least 3 other time in the past 20 years, the American automakers have received billion of dollars. The last was in 1999 for R&D of fuel-efficient vehicles. There was much a-do but after the election of 2000, we never heard about it again.

However, this same sarcasm should be levied on the financial industry. Why weren’t the CEO’s of AIG, Morgan Stanley, Citi-Group asked to testify as to their “plan” as to how they will use the –>$250 billion<– of the overall $700 billion? Hmm, inquiring minds want to know?

Waxman unseats Dingell as House energy committee chair

Waxman unseats Dingell as House energy committee chair | csmonitor.com. It is about time. In my opinion, Dingell was well intentioned but is partly responsible for maintiain the Big Three’s status quo.

Robinhood The Socialist

So in this absurd political climate, would the noble, Robinhood, be considered a socialist? A bleeding heart, left-wing radical trying to “spread the wealth” I suppose.

Election 2006 = Balanced Gov’t

The Independents, Republican Centrists, and Democrat Centrists finally stopped drinking the kool-aid and voted for balanced government. They did NOT vote for gay-marriage, social welfare, or big government. They…and I include myself with them…DID vote for Accountability in Iraq, Helping the Middle Class, and Stopping the Pork.Now, by this time in 2004 Bush and the Republicans were gloating their asses off after they won both houses and the presidency. In the words of both G.W. Bush and Sen. Frist, “We now have political capital and we intend to spend it”….and boy did they. They just spent and spent and spent. The news channels were finally airing segments on how much gov’t waste there was.However, as soon as it was official that the Demcrats took the House and Senate…both the news channels and the Republicans were spewing doom-n-gloom: “How much will they spend…”. Wait a minute…MSNBC…you CNN and even FOX…2 months ago all aired segments about the obscene amount of spending that was taking place…lead by the Republicans. Gee, Ann Culter…that is such a liberal media thing to do….whatever.The 24hr News Channels are now looking for ‘The Story’. So far they’ve got ‘Although it was centrist Democrats that were elected, it will be the hardline Democrats (those San Fransico Liberals) that will be leading congress”. Nancy Pelosy has come out with what they want to do in their first 100 ‘hours’. Let’s see

• Raising Minimum Wage
• Competitive pricing for perscription drugs
• Redirecting the $10 ‘billion’ tax credit Big Oil recieves toward Alternative Energy

If that is does not spell out ‘Communisim’, I don’t know what does. No it doesn’t. These agenda items are politically straight-up the middle.As for Iraq, Democrats can’t CHANGE the strategy. Congress can only apply audits and apply accountablity…the Executive branch drives these plan. So…it’s a waste of time to ask “What will these Domocrats change in Iraq”. They can’t do jack…except…issue subpenas, reject wasteful spending, and DEMAND better financial bookeeping for how our fucking tax dollars are being spent over there. A $4000 toilet sit is unacceptable.