Fiatch

Who was Charles Ponzi?
Who’s really running Ponzi schemes?

Also add:

• Brooks Brothers Brigade!
• Hijacker!
• Racist!
• Terrorist!

These rolling ad-hominem attacks confess intellectual weakness.  These officials and their media proxies are afraid.

They should not fear their fellow citizens.  It is, though, appropriate for them to wonder if perhaps all this attention threatens their boondoggling and bad ideas.

“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of conscience to remain silent.”

We are well past the foothold stage.  What are you prepared to do with your voice?

[source: Nate Beeler’s “In Defense of Dissent on Health Care Reform” via Washington Examiner, HT Instapundit]

This course is saner than the present one.

Bailouts are a definite Demotivator.

US To Trade Gold Reserves For Cash

Government Motors tee, via Despair, Inc.

Run, Blago Run!
(HT www.creativerescue.org/)

Via The Onion:

By providing the new employee with state-of-the-art high-powered concept cars to drive around while making large cash deposits in dozens of untaxed savings accounts, researchers at the Labor Department hope to aid both the struggling auto industry and the nation’s failing banks.

It is not yet clear which economic sectors will benefit most from the daily helicopter rides to and from work.

Congressional oversight.

Central planning.  Because it has worked so well in the past.

Courtesy of a choppy Christian Bale mashup, here’s a NSFW clip that illustrates a more appropriate tenor for Congressional hearings with bankers and other Bailoutalooza scallywags.  Of course, Congress is a bigger part of the problem than even the bankers, so expecting leadership from them is pointless.

hat tip to WINTP