Magic Money

Isn't this all a bit surreal? Now the American government has passed another $800 billion stimulus package, great! Next the tax-dodging Treasury Secretary wants to spend $2.5 trillion on more stimulus by buying up all the bad debt that's out there. Where is this money coming from? From heaven? Is it from the God that watches over their country? How can their currency be worth anything anymore? Surely you can't just print money whenever you feel like it?

And if all this money could have been printed at any time why the fuck didn't they use it to support the millions of Americans who live in Doritos-Coca-Cola-Walmart-poverty. Hell, with all that money you could have built each and every one of them and the rest of the middle classes a mansion and given them a car with enough money left over for a healthy green salad.

Think about that figure again: $800 billion + $2.5 trillion = $3.3 trillion dollars.

And that doesn't include the $700 billion Bush dropped into the hands of the rich before he left office (unless, as I think, Obama's stimulus just replaces that one but with this corporate media it's impossible to know what's going on).

And I keep waiting for Americans to finally have enough. Enough of cancer, enough of being dominated by by a crooked and violent elite, enough of being told only what they are allowed to hear, enough of sending their sons and daughters to die in mad wars, enough of pretending there's a future for their children. But there's no action yet. Probably because everyone is working 70 hour weeks, but thankfully that dismal truth is about to change. When you're unemployed (or retired) you have a lot of time to think. And thinking makes you mad, when you realize that you're being fucked over. Then you start to hit the streets and wouldn't that Capitol building look a lot better as a smoking rubble? C'mon guys you're almost there. But really we don't get angry when enough of us are comfortable so we've got some way to go.

This system isn't working anymore. It's got to go. Happily we aren't going to have the choice. It's just going. Farewell!

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But in other news, I'm quite amazed that Obama is proposing talking to Iran unlike the dismal performance of his predecessor. Well it's about time Americans elected a thoughtful person to their highest office. Imagine that: working out your differences by discussion and compromise. Wow!

And best of all and you might not have heard much about this, Obama is talking to Russia about scaling back their nuclear weapons stockpiles and those on hair-trigger alert. Unbelievable.

I still can see of target on his back with every progressive move he makes. But you've got to give him credit. At the end of the world, the last thing you want is anyone holding on to nuclear weapons. I'll take the stone-age, just keep the radiation away.