Thursday, December 06, 2007

Stasis


If I'm
reading this correctly, the big plan to help out people who are in danger of losing their homes is:

1. Pretend the plan will cover a large number of people.
2. Make the terms so specific that a much smaller number of people will benefit.
3. Make sure that the poorest people, i.e., those who would most benefit from the plan, are excluded from the terms.
4. Ensure that the plan doesn't actually do anything except delay the inevitable accounting in the hopes that a miracle will occur between now and the reset date.
5. Meet with the same fuckers who issued the subprime loans in order to devise a way to completely shift responsibility onto consumers - even though the current problems are endemic to the cash-grab business practices of the loan industry, which just happened to be de-regulated.
This totally makes sense.

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It grows increasingly difficult for me to moderate my political feelings. Every time I try and convince myself that Republicans just have different ideas for running the government, it basically comes out that they'd much rather dismantle the government, sell off everything that isn't nailed down and roll back social progress to a feudal system.

Every plan they come up with is pretty much asking Big Business what would help the bottom line.

Since they've come to power the Republicans have done everything they can to completely erase the Great Society. Ronald Reagan sliced off its limbs and Cheney/Bush have been skullfucking its corpse.

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Speaking of Cheney . . .

But his implication was clear: When asked if these men had lost their spines, he responded, “They are not carrying the big sticks I would have expected.”

This is really easy to understand, let me explain the context.

It's perfectly coherent when you understand that Cheney is pretty much the biggest dick in the known Universe.

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The above news article about our crooked soul of a Vice President is actually quite relevant considering this month's Round Table. Cheney is making the argument that a woman, Nancy Pelosi, in a position of leadership in the House is emasculating for male Representatives. Poor guys.

Really, our world is so infused with the stench of sexism that the Vice President is threatened by a female Speaker of the House.

We really should geld all male politicians.

1 comment:

Patrick said...

The NWO conspiracists behind the Republican hegemony actually do want to return us to fuedalism post Peak Oil, but don't let that persuade to lumping Ron Paul in with them. :)

I agree on the bank plan, I figured some systematic terms for re-negotiating ARMs to FRMs would work, but they didn't do that. The truth is, banks make the most money when foreclosures happen at around the 7-year mark, since there is the inflection point between principal and interest amounts, and banks can't auction off on already-paid principal. Most of these mortages were bought in 2003, so 2010 is the date when the whole thing collapses, depression ensues, and then they introduce a new currency (Amero) and the NAU. Unless we elect Ron Paul. Thats my unmoderated politik.