Ask yourself this question: has borrowing money gotten any cheaper for you this year? Did someone from the government walk up to you after you foreclosed on your house or missed payments on your charge card and, as a favor, just because you’re so cool, jack your credit score back up to the 99th percentile and invite you to start all over again? Because that’s what happened to these assholes. They made every bad move you can think of and they not only got a clean credit slate but a vitually ceiling-free spending limit.
Go read the rest, and then ask yourself why the tea-baggers have had their hate directed at Obama and Sotomayor instead of Hank Paulson and Goldman Sachs.
The stupidity of the masses continues to work very well for our homegrown oligarchs. I got an eyefull of this when I was home in Florida, when a local insurance company arranged for an anti-heathcare reform demonstration out in front of their offices a few blocks from my parents’ home. The kicker? Most of those waving flags and “Say No to Obamacare” signs were Medicare-aged (and Fox watchers to boot, no doubt).
I only wish I’d taken a picture, in case I ever have the chance to show my grandkids how dumb and easily fooled Americans used to be.
Cenk Uygur interview with Matt Taibbi