Posted by
rycK on Sunday, February 01, 2009 4:45:26 PM
The Old Red Lady of the Old Gray Lady
Howls about Wall Street and Fat Cats
We can usually
expose some budding future political theorems from the political essays of the NYT—aka the Walter Duranty Papers--
as they attempt to ‘form public opinion’ or justify the antics of the far
left--their ideological partners in Congress by suggesting new and sweeping
changes that ultimately lead to socialism and the loss of our Constitutional Rights. Today, we get to read all about a mega dose of
unbridled revenge upon Wall Street mediated with a general [and jejune] attack
on capitalism from The Old Red Lady of the Old Gray Lady [Dah Dowdy Dowd
today]
to the tune of a churlish whine and a sanctimonious call for lost money. Let us see what she is up to.
To wit:
“The president’s disgust at Wall
Street looters was good. But we need more. We need disgorgement.”--
Disgorge, Wall Street Fat Cats By Maureen Dowd Op-Ed Columnist
Published:
January 31, 200. [Emphasis is mine in
all quotes.]
What we
could use is some disgorgement of the wasted tax monies the liberals have
placed in unreasonable debt. What we
could use is some preemptive disgorgement of the impending economics
destroy9ing spending Obama is proposing. Are the Democrats looting our future? Can we express
some disgust for Barney Frank or Chrissy Dodd?
Here is more vengeful groping for
money that was earned by others:
“Disgorgement is when courts force wrongdoers to repay ill-gotten gains. And I’m ill at the gains gotten
by scummy executives acting all Gordon Gekko while they’re getting bailed out by us.”— more acidic rant by Dowd.
Could we mention that Franklin Del Ano Raines got $90,000,000 from Fannie may after cooking the books? Can we probe Del Ano’s hinter parts to recover a fraction of that loot in the spirit of Disgorgement? I guess not --he is a distinguished Democrat. Oh, is he an ‘advisor’ to Obama? The good Democrat governor of New Jersey Jon Corzine, another
state soon to go bankrupt, also ripped off about $300,000,000 in salaries and bonuses as CEO of Goldman Sachs in New York. Can we ask him to disgorge some of his greedy loot? He spent a pile of that money getting elected
as first senator the governor of that state. Wall Street largesses so Democrats
can buy their way into office? We also wonder about Bill Richardson’s sudden
descent from glory as he waddles in the criminal stew over some potential
pay-to-play scheme in Nancy Pelosi’s state. Then there is the bribe taker Chris
Dodd. Gee, what neat fellows. No scummy political operatives
there.
The
shame of it all:
“With the equally
laconic Tim Geithner beside him, Mr. Obama called it “shameful” and “the height
of irresponsibility” for Wall Street bankers to give themselves $18.4 billion
worth of bonuses for last year.”—even more acidic rant by Dowd.
We must
note that Nancy Pelosi and her droolers called for this and wrote the bills
that gave Paulson dictatorial powers over the printing press, a power that
seems to surpass, at least monetarily, the nostrums of Hitler and Stalin. Nancy made this possible.
What is
missing here is the salient fact [obviously omitted for political bias] that
out of the $18.4 billion in bonuses this is about half of last year’s bonus levels and was mostly spread out
among the middle level specialists who make in the $150-250,000 range, eligible for a tax cut according to Obama and his
familiar stooge Plugs the Buffoon.
We might also be amazed how our Electric Red Head [e.g. That
cannot be real hair! Was this photo
shopped?] missed the opportunity to tell us that this bonus money is
heavily taxed and mostly spent in the
NYC Metropolitan area and now Gloomy Bloomy, the socialist mayor of NYC will
lose tax revenues from this. Does this money ‘stimulate’ the economy is NYC?
The
mention of some Democrat crooks:
“They should know better, he coolly chided. But big shots —
even Mr. Obama’s — seem impervious to knowing better. (Following fast on
Geithner’s tax lacunae, Tom Daschle’s nomination hit a pothole when he had to
pay $140,000 in back taxes he owed mostly for three years’ use of a car and a
driver provided by a private equity firm.)”
Maybe
she is trying to be fair?
Bravely, and in an attempt to appear objective, Dowdy Dowd brings up the Little Tom Daschle tax evasion affair. We wonder why this was injected at
this interval. Little Tom is a near-saint in leftist politics. Is he now
covered with too much scummy stinkum
to play games at the White House? Hillary Clinton, a known crook and liar, is
there in her glory.
“Treasury officials and Barney Frank’s are dubious about recouping bonuses. “Paulson let the cat
out of the bag,” Frank said of Henry Paulson, Geithner’s predecessor, “and it
can’t be gotten back.” [Emphasis is mine in
all quotes.]
Do we have to listen to sophomoric clichés
forever from the left? All this grubbing and moist sanctimonia would normally be
refreshing in terms of correcting past crimes except that we can see that Obama
is willing to spend a trillion dollars, very soon, and then much more, on
assorted fluff, the equivalent of 1000/18 or 55 times more money than the Wall
Street bonuses and most of that will certainly be wasted. Could we ask that if
this trillion is wasted [which is $16,000 in taxpayer liability
as the lower class does not pay much in taxes] could we get a refund too?
Can we use Dowd’s description of the fat cats here and apply it to the slimy
politicians who grunt and grab money from the taxpayers. Could we consider that
the Clintons made $110,000,000 last year peddling influence with Muslims? Did his speeches lose
money for the US to our enemies? Maybe Slick Willie and his consort might, perhaps,
pay back some of that money to us? Or,
when mentioning crooks and cheats why not mention Old Joe Kennedy and his
sordid brats who collaborated with the Nazis, then the Communists and organized
crime to get money so his three sons could form a dynasty and all become
presidents? Teddy Kennedy still swims in Depression Era money that his father
got from selling booze. Want to disgorge some of that loot Teddy?
Alas, not. Our Old Red Lady has, today, done her solemn liberal duty by distorting the
record, abusing those who, like on Wall Street, were good employees and half their
salaries were dependent upon the bonus system.
It was not their fault that Barney Frank’s
‘affordable housing’ that saddled our system
with 3-5 trillion dollars worth of bad mortgages. 5 million illegal aliens
benefited from subprime and probably zero down mortgages with no proof of
citizenship, a job or anything else. I wonder how many of them voted in California.
We may
have to use her Disgorgement Theme on the liberals after
the first few trillion dollar tranches of our tax monies varnish into the
latrines.
rycK
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