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Not even O.J. Simpson produced more overheated rhetoric from the bloviators in the media than the economy. Is it a recession or isn't it? Are Fannie and Freddie an item? Who's to blame, the speculators for buying too much, or the public for not buying enough? It reminds me of the story of the two men who were have a furious argument. Both got louder and louder, neither convincing the other because, of course, neither was really hearing what the other had to say. Finally one of them could restrain himself no longer and landed an angry punch, knocking the other down. The fallen man looked up from the ground stunned and asked, "Why didn't you say that in the first place?"
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:36 AM
4 Comments:
Great cartoon, John C.
So whose going to swing the first punch? It's high time ;-)
Yes... funny cartoon John.
Big-money fat cats are already screaming that the government just can't afford to bail out those stupid working folks who should have recognized a bill of goods when it was offered to them. Following all the federal bailouts of the last decade or so, if the sub-prime crisis -- which more than all the others negatively affects the average Joe -- is not similarly rescued, then it's time for the next revolution. It used to be a tired cliche to compare contemporary social problems with the decline and fall of Rome. More and more, they're looking very analogous.
When the "average joe" gets government assistance they call it entitlement, when it's big bidness it's called subsidies. Or to put it in other terms, welfare bad, corporate malfeasance good.
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