The one good thing that might come out of the Hill refusal to let Americans pay to have cars produced that nobody wants to buy or drive, is an oops upside your head reality check. Being thrown out of a snuggly comfort zone into a freezing dark street, 2.00 am late December, in your underwear, no hat, no gloves, no overcoat. That sort of check. Perhaps Joe Six Pack (or is that Five Pack by now?) will start to understand a little more the depth of the doodoo he lives his life in. It’s not going to be easy, and there’s no good news anywhere to be seen. But it is all he has, it’s his life. Mind you, Bush is trying to do a temporary TARP bail-out anyway, but that won’t save a single job, it just makes sure he won’t get all the blame. The cost to you: another $20 billion or so down the bottomless drain. Who’s counting?
Still, what are the chances Joe will leave his delusions behind? There’s not a single voice in the politico-mass media cabal who’s not willing and eager to tell Joe the same-old-same-old lies and fairy tales of a bright future right around the corner. It’s just about guaranteed that Joe and Jill will have no real clue what’s been going on until they indeed get thrown out of their home on a pitch black winter’s night, along with their scared-to-death kids. Maybe on Christmas Eve?
