Meanwhile the Bush administration is trying to free up offshore drilling. You have to give it to Bush, he is persistent until the very end. He will run into a wall at a hundred miles an hour and keep going until he makes contact. On Friday, effectively the last day of his administration, he managed to open the door for some more environmental damage. Fortunately, it won't matter much.
How about those fancy white shirts, designer suits and ties? Guess who are the major contributors to Mr. Obama's inauguration party? How about the Wall Street crowd? How about those dressed up in the costumes of deceit? Mr. Obama already "owes" more in favors than several of his predecessors combined, so why worry? Living on credit is our way of life.
There are Americans whose net worth, while collapsing all around them, is still astronomically high. These fortunate souls -or should we say greedy?- will do all that is in their power to safeguard whatever they have left, while trying to get some additional handouts and favors. Only it is hard to see who will pay them now.
For almost three quarters of a century now, the American economy has consisted of wizards shuffling wealth from the masses into the hands of a few. Starting after world war two, and employing the latest discoveries in psychology, marketing, and rip-off technology, these "architects of fake prosperity" have managed to suck the world dry.
At first they provided some marginal value, but soon enough they learned that selling hot air was both more profitable and a faster way to riches. They favored an economy based on senseless spending. Spending for the sake of spending. They convinced the American public that such spending was happiness or better than happiness. They lured people into exchanging their life's work and their life's savings for ever bigger cars, bigger homes, more stainless steel, and more useless gadgets.
Now the party is about to end. And maybe that is a good thing, although it will surely be a very painful end for most.
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