The tin cup is out and the Wall Street bankers are only offering pencils for our donation. With ridiculous talk of reigning in corporate jet spending, capping salaries and golden parachutes, we have been blinded by the juggling cups that hide the ping pong ball!
First off, the surprise over the power struggle with the stimulus bill should have been expected, considering how quickly this was put into the congressional fray within less than a month of tenure of the Obama administration.
Bloodied and bruised, the GOP remembered one basic thing during the fall campaign - "WE" were furious over the bailout plan, the lightning approval within the Congress, and the dispensing of the funds. Is it any surprise that they seized on the opportunity to yell and scream about more tax dollars going out the door?
Now, we have the newly appointed Timothy Geithner stepping onto the wooden stacked Wall Street and Congressional financial funeral spire offering up his bail out plan, whilst the banking investors and partisans stand by with their burning torches poised to light it in one hand and their tin cups in the other. Added to the spectacle is Rep. Paul Kanjorski(D)pronouncing that the world that we have known may have ended in September, with or without the initial bail out with the now still sitting congressmen aware of the financial depth of the crisis.
At what point in time and who has taken control of the cup game going on outside and inside the walls NYSE? The American people, along with the news media are dizzyingly watching the cups fly up in the air trying to win a "pencil". But what they/we are missing is who's running the game and who has no intention of giving up their "prize"!
This diary may make no sense, but then again, does any of this?