Henry Potter... haiku

Bend over I'll drive

You're worth more dead than alive

By winter you'll go




Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, WaMu, AIG, Bear Stearns... And this is just the tip of the iceberg of things yet to come. What amazes me is we saw this exact scenario many times in the 20th century... A sudden collapse of sound financial institutions followed by a bailout, robbing the dwindling coffers of the U.S. Treasury so the Federal Reserve can print up even more money, reducing the value of American currency even more. Only this time, it's pretty serious for Wall Street, and everyone who relies on investments as an income.

If current rates continue, we can look forward to the total collapse of the monetary system as we know it, and we can blame the Federal Reserve, which isn't part of the federal government, but a private bank owned by international bankers, and our dumb-ass Congress for allowing such a scenario to get a foothold in the first place.

Yeah, these Wall Street guys, these Masters of the Universe, have been riding the gravy train for so long they thought it would last forever. What they didn't see was another Master of the Universe was in town, and he had his sights set on them.

So the big boys want to make some fast cash, and end up losing the business, with Uncle Sam to bail them out. No big deal. The head honchos each walk away with retirement packages equal to a small country's gross national product, while the taxpayer slaves get to pay for it all to the tune of well over a trillion dollars. (That's a 1 with twelve zeros after it.)

Of course, the U.S. government can't possibly pay for it, so they get the Federal Reserve, a private bank, to print up a trillion dollars so we can owe the Fed a trillion PLUS interest, that any right-thinking person realizes is impossible to pay back, because the only money in circulation is Federal Reserve notes, not including the interest, which Uncle Sam has to borrow from the Fed to pay the Fed back, allowing them to print more, until the end of time, and the Federal Reserve gets to keep the hard assets when they can't pay. What a power play! This is like "It's a Wonderful Life" on steroids, with Ben Bernanke playing Henry Potter.

What about all those honest, tax-paying people that lost their homes because these bastards screwed them with impossible-to-pay-back interest rates? Shouldn't the government help these people, rather than the greedy rat bastards that started this whole thing in the first place?

HELL, NO!!!

Let Lunch Box Charlie and Joe Sixpack live in their cars, 'cause we need to keep Wall Street going to stave off economic collapse for a few more months.

I say let the Fed have all the money. Who cares? I mean, if they had all this soon-to-be worthless cash, it'll be just as worthless to them.

But on the other hand...

Why don't we all get together with our pitchforks and torches and visit the nearest Federal Reserve and storm the fuckin' place?! We grab everybody in a suit, drag them into the street, and trample them like the grapes of wrath. Kill 'em all. I MEAN KILL. THEM. ALL. (Their tinpot god can sort 'em out.)

I'm not advocating violence. I'm advocating surgery ... Like cutting out a hemorrhoid that's been festering in your ass for a hundred years. These parasites have been sucking life dry for so long, it's become normal to give a third of your hard-earned blood so they can grow like a cancer in the heart of humanity. They take everything and give nothing back. A dog is man's best friend, but if a dog got rabies, you'd shoot it on sight. Why would you treat these greedy bastards any better? They're not human. They're not your friends.

Come to think of it, I AM advocating violence. Grab your pitchforks. I'll be the one in the cowboy hat.