Sit back, make yourself comfortable and try to relax. Find yourself coming to a deep state of calm where your thoughts can flow freely. Now stay calm, and without getting angry, picture all those road construction projects that have popped up on every highway and every other side road in your city or town. Now, stay relaxed! Just breathe... I know it is a stressful thought. I had to turn around and change a plan to go to the gym yesterday myself, but they are doing this for you. After all, it is 'your stimulus money at work' in a 1930's era make-work campaign destined to prolong the contraction and deliver boondoggled bounty to non-productive ends. But they are doing this to... I mean FOR you!
Now that you are relaxed and reassured let your mind drift to Goldman Sachs and the mega banks. This will really calm your soul in the knowledge that Mr. Paulson really did know what was right to you. Maybe Matt Taibbi is over reacting. Goldman is prepping some pretty big bonuses and I have no doubt there will be a few toasts in your honor in the Hamptons this holiday season. You will not be forgotten! In fact, if you survive the ensuing depression rest easy in the idea that something will eventually trickle down. If you don't believe that will happen, go join a union now and get a piece of that action.
So, over here we have the big banks bailed out, churning profit and cheering bonus season. Over there we have huge sums of money earmarked to the unions and in a third direction (we'll just have to call this the Devil's Triangle -- I think a new biiwii-ism just got created) we have an ever growing government. Or does that come under the heading of unions, or do unions come under government? Whatever, we'll call it a Dev-Tri and realize that the special interest group known as free people are stuck in the middle of it.
This theme to be continued as the rich pageant life in of post-crash America moves onward.
