Fascism Sucks

As the world market thrashes around like a freshly caught fish, I cannot help but notice just how plainly stupid some of the commentary is on the situation.

First of all, you can point the finger of deregulation at any of the Presidents since Reagan, it’s congress which makes the laws! Secondly, deregulation is not the problem, human greed is. Last, if you didn’t predict some time ago that this was going to happen, then you’ve been asleep.

I won’t pretend to understand all of the nuances of the trading of debt which allowed this chaos to prevail, as examining the nuances merely tells me that you must be totally bat-shit insane to actually understand or follow it. What I do know is that we’ve lost so much more than economic stability in the “solution” and likely “solutions” to come.

The basic point is this: We lost the last of our freedom with the fix.

Our forefathers went to war for less than what we’ve seen in the last few weeks. Our money, or more accurately, your great-grandchildren’s money is being spent at an unprecedented rate in order to bail out a pig’s sty of greedy bankers. It’s not helping the economy, per se, it’s soothing the wounds of the rich bankers who started this mess to begin with, so that they might start trusting each other again and allow the wheels of monetary stupidity to roll as before.

This is not the correct path of action to take. As Ron Paul has pointed out on more than one occasion, it would be far better to let them go bankrupt, deal with the short term of it, than to drag this crap out for a couple more years by injecting their greed with capital. That injection, like a placebo, will fail to cure what Stephen Colbert so accurately referred to as “Business Syphilis”. (If you haven’t seen this video, it is at once both insightful and hilarious - a well needed bit of humor in this mess.)

$700 billion dollars went out the door with this bailout bill. How many homeless could be sheltered? How many schools could be properly funded? How many roads could be repaved, bridges rebuilt, water systems expanded, garbage collected, ad nausium - before you spend tax payer money on bailing out a bunch of mentally unstable, obviously retarded fat cat bankers? If that doesn’t tell you who controls our “elected representatives”, nothing will.  When we do not control in any fashion the public monies, but instead watch them go to bail out or even purchase business interests which used to be private - you have fascism.

Our Constitutional Republic has been replaced with a fully scoped fascism. Now we have to determine if we’ll live under those conditions or fight to get back what we’ve lost.