These are about half of the front page headlines on cnbc.com right now. Show these to someone a year ago and they shit themselves/don't believe you.
# Obama Set to Detail New Program for Toxic Assets
Our money. Probably never get to know specifically what it buys "for our own safety". It is buying something no one else wants and EVERYONE calls toxic. Wow.
# Bernanke: US Must Resolve 'Too Big to Fail' Problem
The government started this "problem" and now they plan to fix it. I'm sure this will go well...
# Activists Take AIG Bonuses Fight to Executives' Homes
Good - people getting pissed off.
Bad - they are somehow missing the source completely.
# Spring Sale: Home Sellers May Flood the Market Soon
Well, I think what we really need is more homes on the market...
# Obama Indicates Budget Compromises Possible
Isn't he sooooooo generous?! The man who's job is merely to execute has decided he may let the people who are suppose to write and approve of the budget to have some say in it.
# Geithner's Job at Treasury Safe, Obama Says
Unspoken rules:
screw up in government = rewarded
screw up in enormous company = rewarded, but then later blamed
screw up in any other role, like by being a tax paying citizen who works = just plain screwed
# WaMu Sues FDIC for $13 Billion Over Bank Failure
Now we have two companies, who are owned by our money, suing the government for what they have done.
It is so hard to imagine how blind I used to be to the government growing and abusing. But c'mon, this is just so blatant that I find it increasingly difficult to believe how resistant people are to questioning this administration.
