YR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK
Feb. 24th, 2009 11:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogITEM: In what could turn out to be the greatest fraud in US history, American authorities have started to investigate the alleged role of senior military officers in the misuse of $125 billion in a US-directed effort to reconstruct Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
As usual, the explanations break down into one of two categories: “actively criminal” or “highly incompetent” – only one of which you can be prosecuted for, as it happens.
Which is why I typically go batshit when conservatives go on the Sunday talk shows bitching about wasting tax dollars on stimulus packages or green energy. True or not, you do NOT get to lecture anyone on wasteful spending if you support the party that ran the US govt for the last eight years. No.
I have this fantasy where Bob Schieffer gets handed this line, and he reaches over the desk, grabs the guest by the lapels and screams in his face: “FUCK YOU, SENATOR! $125 BILLION DOWN THE DRAIN IN IRAQ JUST TO PAY OFF WAR PROFITEERS THAT FINANCE HALF THE GOP CAMPAIGNS IN THE LAST 10 ELECTION CYCLES, AND YOU HAVE THE GALL TO SIT THERE AND FUCKING WHINE ABOUT THE GOVT HAVING TO BAIL THE COUNTRY OUT OF A GLOBAL ECONOMIC RECESSION STARTED BY YR FUCKING GREEDHEAD CONSTITUENTS IN WALL STREET THAT YOU WANT TO GIVE FUCKING TAX BREAKS TO SO THEY CAN KEEP THEIR MILLION-DOLLAR BONUSES AND PRIVATE FUCKING JETS?! IS THAT WHAT YOU ARE TELLING ME, SENATOR?! AND I HAVE A FOLLOW-UP QUESTION!”
It’ll never happen, of course. FCC indecency rules and all. Besides, all the senator has to do is say (smugly), “See, that’s why I’m opposed to govt bailouts – we’ve proven that we are completely unqualified to handle money responsibly. It didn’t work in Iraq, why would it work here?”
Okay, fair call, although I'm told the stimulus package comes with a requirement for RSS feeds from govt agencies to account for their spending of the stimulus money. I'm sure that will help.
Anyway, regarding the Iraq funding and the Wall Street blowout, I predict incompetency pleas and wrist slaps for designated scapegoats. Because the world’s yr oyster when you don’t have to take any responsibility for anything you’ve ever done, voted for, approved or otherwise facilitated.
Bastards.
Is that justice,
This is dF
As usual, the explanations break down into one of two categories: “actively criminal” or “highly incompetent” – only one of which you can be prosecuted for, as it happens.
Which is why I typically go batshit when conservatives go on the Sunday talk shows bitching about wasting tax dollars on stimulus packages or green energy. True or not, you do NOT get to lecture anyone on wasteful spending if you support the party that ran the US govt for the last eight years. No.
I have this fantasy where Bob Schieffer gets handed this line, and he reaches over the desk, grabs the guest by the lapels and screams in his face: “FUCK YOU, SENATOR! $125 BILLION DOWN THE DRAIN IN IRAQ JUST TO PAY OFF WAR PROFITEERS THAT FINANCE HALF THE GOP CAMPAIGNS IN THE LAST 10 ELECTION CYCLES, AND YOU HAVE THE GALL TO SIT THERE AND FUCKING WHINE ABOUT THE GOVT HAVING TO BAIL THE COUNTRY OUT OF A GLOBAL ECONOMIC RECESSION STARTED BY YR FUCKING GREEDHEAD CONSTITUENTS IN WALL STREET THAT YOU WANT TO GIVE FUCKING TAX BREAKS TO SO THEY CAN KEEP THEIR MILLION-DOLLAR BONUSES AND PRIVATE FUCKING JETS?! IS THAT WHAT YOU ARE TELLING ME, SENATOR?! AND I HAVE A FOLLOW-UP QUESTION!”
It’ll never happen, of course. FCC indecency rules and all. Besides, all the senator has to do is say (smugly), “See, that’s why I’m opposed to govt bailouts – we’ve proven that we are completely unqualified to handle money responsibly. It didn’t work in Iraq, why would it work here?”
Okay, fair call, although I'm told the stimulus package comes with a requirement for RSS feeds from govt agencies to account for their spending of the stimulus money. I'm sure that will help.
Anyway, regarding the Iraq funding and the Wall Street blowout, I predict incompetency pleas and wrist slaps for designated scapegoats. Because the world’s yr oyster when you don’t have to take any responsibility for anything you’ve ever done, voted for, approved or otherwise facilitated.
Bastards.
Is that justice,
This is dF
