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I have not finished the 1100 page stimulus package, mostly because I haven't started it.

The financial meltdown is fascinating, two sides saying the other is wrong. The petty squabbling over infinite self-serving interests.

What I have done is watch some of the hearings and reactions on several news channels.

It's sadly obvious it's all about the EconoMe: Meaning it's all about ME.

Depending on who's talking at the time it's all about them. How does this help me?

How does saving a swamp rat in San Francisco help me or anyone? How does crap like this get into a bill supposedly to save our asses not swamp rat's asses?

Is we in a economic crisis or is we ain't?

I, being not poor enough, nor rich enough to benefit directly from this, even if it does work.

What I will benefit from? If it works: people regaining confidence and spending money. People being employed and spending money.

Basically, we need people to consume in order to get our massive gyro spinning again. It wouldn't hurt if the news media was a little more positive, instead of selling doom and gloom.

But happy lollipops don't sell as well as fire and brimstone apocalyptic FEAR. I hollered that because it seems to work well on some of the bulbous headed blow-hards talk (hollerin') shows.

The louder they talk the righter they are... damn the facts, I'm hollerin' here!

Watching the congressional hearings (oxymoronic, since nobody is hearin' nothin') I was struck by the fact that all the cackling primates resembled a room full of monkeys.

I put it to you that a room full of monkeys given a trillion dollars would be better at giving it away. First, they don't care about money so there'd be no greed.

Second, if you came to them with a swamp rat they'd club it to death and eat it. Probably the person that brought it too.

This would eliminate almost all self-serving d-bags from coming forth with their own greedy, stupifying, pork belly projects.

Those that did step over the corpses to present their projects and got clubbed? Well, that's just natural selection.  

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The video is Keith Olbermann exposing how the media can create a smear from lies. Rush Limbaugh is flogged along with a very enjoyable group flogging. Get the popcorn!

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