Senatorial Calls For Financial Reforms

THE CENTURION CHRONICLE
Special Issue – Apr 2010

SENATORIAL CALLS FOR FINANCIAL REFORMS
(pots calling kettles….black)

The current stampede in the Senate to enact a bill to reform our financial system is pure hypocrisy.

Its ravings and ranting about the urgency now needed to rein in Wall Street’s “greed”, and to prevent the biggest of our banking institutions from ever becoming “to big to fail” again, thus requiring future “bail outs” with taxpayers’ money, are nothing more than carefully orchestrated and hyped-up political theater. It hopes thereby to con the electorate into supporting those efforts, much like a lightning rod deflects lightning from damaging a house.

Talk about pots calling kettles….black! These “honorables” are the same jokers who were the prime beneficiaries of extremely generous campaign contributions (running into the hundreds of thousands, even millions – viz then senator Obama’s run for president), from the same financial fat-cats they’re now supposedly going to reform!

And this is not just a Democrat deal. The Republicans aren’t exactly virgins in this legislative fandango either. After all, they too, are part of this elite class of career politicos who were all either asleep at the switch, or, happily raking it in and filling their own campaign war-chests, while the financial crisis that damned near swamped our ship of state, grew into a tsunami of loss and financial ruin for the rest of us working stiffs.

The Senate’s collective performance in these matters makes that of street-corner hookers more genuine by comparison. Granted, these will take your money and screw you in a New York minute, but at least they’re more up-front about it. So, perhaps these honorable senators should be spending more time with our working girls, to better learn the tricks of the trade (as purveyors….not customers). Maybe then we taxpayers might get a clearer picture of what we’re paying for.

Well, comes November, let’s all remember….working girls are pros….these guys….are just amateurs!

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