Give Us All of Your Money...

...and then fuck off.

Or, "government interference is bad for business" until the shit hits the fan when the capitalist fat-cat twats start miaowing for hand-outs - and not just hand-outs, mind, but "buying above market price", the cheeky bastards.

Naomin Klein's summed it up nicely in The Guardian.

We're right in the middle of this as I blog. The political and big business establishment are stoking up the sense of crisis to hustle this thing through, and they seem to be succeeding. McCain has shown where his true interests lie, fanning the flames for his mega-rich chums. Obama's position is less clear, but it'll be interesting to see which side he decides his bread is buttered on.

I agree with Klein, but doubt that there's time to mobilize before this gets pushed through...

Comments

  1. MichaelFri Sept 26, 10:33:00 pm BST

    I'm not sure about Obama either. You can't spend all that time at the University of Chicago without some exposure to Freidmanite shite (as Klein has pointed out before).

    As for McCain, the thought of him as president is getting scarier and scarier.

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  2. Garry NixonSat Sept 27, 01:34:00 am BST

    We can't have any illusions about Obama - and yes indeed there's the Chicago connexion. Despite all of that, he's got to be miles better than McCain.

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