Friday, January 02, 2004
NYers Respond to Bush-onomics
New York City: Bull Market For Note-Passing Bank Robbers0 comments
It all makes rational, logical sense, actually.
Bush prevented supplimental monies he promised to NYC after the WTC attack from ever actually coming here.
That forced many companies to shut down or lay off large percentages of their staffs, at the same time tourists again felt afraid to come to NYC (but not necessarily afraid of us, this time).
Hundreds of thousands of NYers lost their jobs.
Dollars dried up.
Nothing got any cheaper. Except housing, which fell from obscenely expensive and overpriced to simply insanely expensive and overpriced.
Which is good for the financial industry.
The financial industry is a major contributor to the Bush administration, and has been allowed to suck up all kinds of moola from the good folks of NY and out-lying areas.
The financial industry has been hauled before the court of public opinion by our very own Atty. General Elliot Spitzer (the only competent politician in captivity), and belatedly sorta, kinda by the SEC.
But all NYers know full well that all this will have no effect on the people who are allowed by the Bush administration to steal anything in sight, since they know which campaign wheels to grease.
So, the only logical conclusion one can reach is that NYers are now fully entitled to wander into the financial institution of their choice and, following the lead of the Board of Directors of that institution, demand the right to steal right back again anything that's not nailed down.
Hey, as Barry Goldwater once said, "You gotta eat, and I gotta eat!"
This is the only logical extention to the quietly inept leadership of Treasury Secretary John Snow and his financial policy, which, of course, the administration handed to him as he walked in the door to replace Previous Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who was booted, not for his being incompetent, but for being vocal about that incompetence.
See? NYers know how to put politics into action.
posted by Gotham 7:46 PM
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