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Lots of talk about how our government handles money. The public, particularly after the debt ceiling fiasco, are ever more distrustful of government in general, believing the whole thing is broke.
Some say that's what the hard right is actually trying to do. Probably not consciously. More likely it's the big money global puppeteers behind the hard right. It's their goal to discredit government at every turn, even when they are the ones that are governing, so that the public will support less and less government involvement in anything.
Deregulation brought about the biggest financial crisis since the thirties. So what? With a little media prestidigitation, they've turned that around and got a significant amount of the American public believing it was a government problem.
The same government that in the peak of the financial meltdown, December of 2008, gave key financial institutions a total of $1.2 trillion. $107 billion went to Morgan Stanley, $100 billion to Citigroup and $91 billion to the Bank of America.
Hey. That kind of irresponsible lending can build up a deficit.
Let's hope there's no debt ceiling crisis the manipulators can manufacture to make it all look like it's the government's screw up.
Um...
It's so fashionable to bite the hand that feeds you. And now the politicians they have in their pocket are braying at every turn and blaming the feds for overspending.
It's like the writer Oscar Levant once said, "A Politician is a person who will double-cross that bridge when he comes to it."
Too bad us small businesses can’t get any of those puppeteer dollars. We might use them to put people to work.
Government’s not broke. A lot of it is totally bought and paid for.
America, ya gotta love it.