It is not a matter of beating a dead horse or waking a sleeping dog, it is more a matter of appreciating what has happened. As Obama trots through Detroit looking for a slap in the pocket for the Chrysler bailout, the union leaders are practicing their Italian. Why? Because Obama has sent another American company to an overseas owner. FIAT bought Chrysler for a penny with Obama's taxpayers, that is you and I, in for a pound. Not only does “FIAT” make the infamous “Fix It Again Tony,” car, it will take Chrysler public, with the blessing and celebration of the current administration, and suck even more American cash out of the country.
As long as we were going to send a bushel basket of cash to Chrysler, why not send a little more and have them buy FIAT. Or better yet let Ford take it over and keep the cash and owners in America. It is too obvious for the skull and crossbones thinkers on Obama’s team.
Further, in an effort to revive the dead horse, in my opinion, a decade from now the $185 billion given AIG, on behalf of the American Taxpayer which made a frightening HBO movie, will be known as the greatest financial scandal of the 21st century. It makes the con artist Madoff look like a minnow in a sea of sharks. I know and please do not remind me, that whats-his-name, the secretary saved the world from economic disaster. There are no elephants in my room either so the green light that keeps them away is working. I guess.
The human outrage is the lack of human outrage. The possibility, even the likelihood prognosticated by many political commentators, that Obama has a chance of being reelected should be enough to make hair grow on the back of our necks and eliminate the need for product to make our head-hair stand on end. But look around it is not happening. Taxpayers still sing his praises, albeit more cautiously. It is not enough that unemployment stats go up occasionally, it is that the stats are fraudulent. Everyone should know by now that if you stop looking for work you are considered employed according to the stats. The SEC puts Madoff in jail for a stock scam, yet Obama’s administration is free to wallow in a muddy mire of spurious stats that attempt to sell American’s a check for the economy that can not be cashed.
To make matters worse, for example, my home has decreased in value by $42,000 and it is still decreasing, (According to Obama stats it is now decreasing at a “reduced rate”) and I can not stop it. Most American home owners now know the term underwater.
I hope Romney or any other candidate rams the unemployment numbers, lost manufacturing jobs and the housing crisis down Obama’s thorax and makes his administration gag. If he had any decency, he would say, “I promised I could do it. I did not do it and I resign.” It would be the honorable thing to do. But to keep calling the economy black when it rolls in shades of deep red, is insulting to all of us who see one level beneath Obama’s rhetoric.
Of course, we have beat this horse before, but it was not attention getting enough. And we can not afford to let this sleeping dog lie either. And “lie” it will, if left unaccountable.
I hope the presidential candidates will revive those dead horses and wake those sleeping dogs.
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