Die Detroit Die - Is it just me, or does it seem to everyone that our congressional representatives are behaving like spoiled, quarreling children at recess? Now, I am not personally in favor of a carte-blanche bailout to the Big Three, but I think they deserve a little more respectful attention than our reps have given them. And who is responsible for the latest snafu? The party of business, of course, the GOP, the Re-pub-li-cans! It might be up to their lame duck President to save the day. Woo-boy, are we in trouble...
Oh My, Chicago, Oh My - Some things never change. The City of Broad Shoulders, famed for its entrenched political machines, seems destined to forever carry that weighty ethical burden. This latest (and perhaps greatest) involving an arrested and amazingly corrupt Governor, may in fact be a problem for the whole state of Illinois, but everyone will blame Chicago and it's rough and tumble politics. This whole mess makes shamed ex-New York Governor Elliot Spitzer's peccadilloes look positively lame by comparison, in a Clintonian sort of way. And no-one blamed New York City politics for that one.
Watching The Jobs Fly - Away that is. What on Earth was Bank 0f American thinking? That already giant banking enterprise took full advantage of the woes of other banks and brokerage firms in the economic meltdown, and bought them up to make itself even more powerful and massive. But now we hear they are laying off up to 35,000 workers over the next three years. I'll bet that wasn't listed in the takeover plans! The absolute worst example of corporate greed and callousness to come out of this whole mess.
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