Fictionalized Account of the Economic Crisis

In enjoying my lunch today I was lucky enough to catch Warren Buffet and Hank Paulson discussing Hank's fictionalized account of the raping of America that took place under his watch as Secretary of the Treasury. Before you ask yourself, "why does this guy keep ruining his lunch by catching these ridiculous acts of kabuki theater on the tube", trust me, you develop bad habits when you are unemployed...one of mine is having lunch while alternating between CNBC, Bloomberg, and Fox Business. Can't explain it other than morbid curiosity...but I digress.

So Grandpa Warren was asking questions to Hank and then agreeing at every turn how everyone involved saved the world. They would occasionally throw the peasants some bone like, "as terrible as this is now, if we hadn't acted in the manner we did our financial system would have collapsed.". Several things went through my mind as I suffered through the bs. First was, how disgusted I am that the state of America is such that when the aristocracy discusses how it stole from the middle class and future generations of middle class Americans to make sure that their own establishments were not seen to be insolvent, that a room full of idiots show up to listen and television crews broadcast it. There was a time when the aristocracy would be risking their lives if they tried to gather the citizens of America and tell them how stealing their wealth, and the wealth of their children and grandchildren was better than the alternative of the aristocrats casino being shut down. Now, with a straight face, they claim to have saved the world by making sure that their wealth was preserved at all costs.

It is this point that I suppose angers and frustrates me the most. People are so dumbed down, apathetic, naive, dimwitted, selfish, and morally bankrupt that they line up to get autographs from those who have robbed them blind and virtually insured the coming bankruptcy of America.

The other thought I did have was that when Hankies book is adapted to a movie about how he and the other aristocrats saved the world by selling out the middle class there will be a disclaimer run at the end of the movie. When you watch a Western you'll read a disclaimer that says something like, "No horses were injured in the making of this movie". Hankies book/movie will have to have the disclaimer, "No actual billionaires were harmed in the looting of America".