Bankrupt Bailouts
January 26th, 2009Ernie Fitzpatrick asked:
What self-respecting Republican would ever have believed that the President of their party would be a socialist? And how many of those Republican who have been voting for bailout after bailout would have believed they’d be doing so if you asked them ten years ago- five years ago? Would you believe a year ago? If things keep going as they are, we the taxpayers, the government will own everything. At last, we have a new god- the U.S. government. All hail to the Treasury Secretary!
We are pursuing an insane course of bailout after bailout.
The latest excuse by George Bush for bailing out Citigroup went like this, “If need be, we’re going to make these kind of decisions to safeguard our financial system in the future,” Bush said. “I talked to President-elect Obama about the decision we made. I told the American people, and I’ve told the president-elect when I first met him, that any time we were to make a big decision during this transition, he will be informed, as will his team.” How nice!
But, just how long do we think the world is going to keep buying US$’s in the form of buying our Treasury bills and notes which are becoming more and more worthless each day? A day of reckoning is coming.
And we’ve just gotten started in this new “bail me out” paradigm. Bush warned there could be more bailouts to come, and said that on his flight back from an international economic summit in Peru on Sunday, he had talked with Paulson about “the decisions made to safeguard” Citigroup Inc. We must save AIG, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, General Motors, ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
And the sheep lined up to go to the Stock market slaughter. Stocks surged Monday in a broad rally as Citigroup’s massive rescue package and President-elect Obama’s picks for his economic team pushed investors off the sidelines. The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) gained 397 points, or 4.9%, after having been up 552 points earlier in the afternoon. The Standard & Poor’s 500 (SPX) index rose 6.4% and the Nasdaq composite (COMP) gained 6.3%. The biggest two-day gain since 1987. Is this a great nation to make money in or what?
While the real estate crash is still alive and well, the auto crash is coming along side. In yet another bad sign for the auto industry, car loan delinquencies rose again in the third quarter, putting up to $22.9 billion at risk for banks, finance companies and automakers who dole out loans directly to consumers.
All of these bailouts are but bankrupt bailouts sooner or later because no government can just print money and guarantee BAD loans, BAD business, and BAD polices without the house of cards crashing sooner than later.
What self-respecting Republican would ever have believed that the President of their party would be a socialist? And how many of those Republican who have been voting for bailout after bailout would have believed they’d be doing so if you asked them ten years ago- five years ago? Would you believe a year ago? If things keep going as they are, we the taxpayers, the government will own everything. At last, we have a new god- the U.S. government. All hail to the Treasury Secretary!
We are pursuing an insane course of bailout after bailout.
The latest excuse by George Bush for bailing out Citigroup went like this, “If need be, we’re going to make these kind of decisions to safeguard our financial system in the future,” Bush said. “I talked to President-elect Obama about the decision we made. I told the American people, and I’ve told the president-elect when I first met him, that any time we were to make a big decision during this transition, he will be informed, as will his team.” How nice!
But, just how long do we think the world is going to keep buying US$’s in the form of buying our Treasury bills and notes which are becoming more and more worthless each day? A day of reckoning is coming.
And we’ve just gotten started in this new “bail me out” paradigm. Bush warned there could be more bailouts to come, and said that on his flight back from an international economic summit in Peru on Sunday, he had talked with Paulson about “the decisions made to safeguard” Citigroup Inc. We must save AIG, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, General Motors, ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
And the sheep lined up to go to the Stock market slaughter. Stocks surged Monday in a broad rally as Citigroup’s massive rescue package and President-elect Obama’s picks for his economic team pushed investors off the sidelines. The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) gained 397 points, or 4.9%, after having been up 552 points earlier in the afternoon. The Standard & Poor’s 500 (SPX) index rose 6.4% and the Nasdaq composite (COMP) gained 6.3%. The biggest two-day gain since 1987. Is this a great nation to make money in or what?
While the real estate crash is still alive and well, the auto crash is coming along side. In yet another bad sign for the auto industry, car loan delinquencies rose again in the third quarter, putting up to $22.9 billion at risk for banks, finance companies and automakers who dole out loans directly to consumers.
All of these bailouts are but bankrupt bailouts sooner or later because no government can just print money and guarantee BAD loans, BAD business, and BAD polices without the house of cards crashing sooner than later.


