How do we Celebrate?
Via [ Bitch Ph.D. ] by Taddyporter:
Remember a year ago, when capitalism was in full panicy retreat? Remember how we were told we had to give up our savings and our pensions and our 401K’s and our wages and our jobs and our homes and our health insurance and our kids’ college funds and we had to pledge our taxes to redeem all the bullshit schemes of the buccaneer bankers and brokers and hedge fund fools.
Remember how we were told how if we didn’t pay this ransom, things would get really, really bad and our whole vast and elegant free market economy would be lost to some unspecified enemy?
So we paid up.
I kind of expected there would be investigations, though. You know, since we own their asses, I thought we might have a look the books of the enterprises we paid for and see just what they’d been up to. Find out just what the fuck went wrong. And who was responsible.
And I expected there would be arrests. Mass arrests. And confiscations of property and bank accounts.
Not just ours. Theirs, too.
And clawbacks of bonuses and inflated salaries. And seizures of yachts and Bentleys and beach houses and Falcon jets. I expected they would be put up for sale at public auction. You know, like they do to our houses when we have a problem with our payments.
I expected a nice surtax slapped on upper incomes. I expected a tax on stock sales to pay back the working class for bailing them out.
