A Forum for the New World Order

Wake up, everyone! We’ve been fleeced. We’ve been systematically fleeced and subsequently BLAMED for the crisis that has arisen from the fleecing!

I’m watching these housing hearings and I’m experiencing deja vu: I myself have been subject to such hearings because I wanted to build a house. I wasn’t trying to sell sub-prime mortgages to the public, I wasn’t taking unwarranted bonuses while fudging numbers, more generally to contemporary history, I wasn’t defrauding investors of $50,000,000,000.00. I wanted to build a modestly modern house on 0.06 acres in an historically designated neighborhood. Shame on me.

I wonder now if some of these corrupt bastards discussed public ignorance when they made their dealings. I think they probably chuckled to each other that no one would notice because everyday Americans were too busy with their own "scandals" of bureaucratic minutiae: parking tickets, personal debt, personal bankruptcy, equipment failure (broken cars, computers, windows), dismantled families, divorce, etc. I think they counted on it.

Meanwhile, well-meaning citizens fulfilled the wet dreams of the capitalists who drove them to their meaningless liberalism and "acted local", not global. They carried cloth bags to grocery stores, ate tofu, they recycled and composted. They did it all. And when they really wanted to get their political thrills, they participated in local government and really "spoke out" against people who were trying to denigrate the historic spirit of their historic neighborhood.

I wonder if these liberals are watching C-Span right now, or if they’re too busy buying tofu.