Sorry Mr. President, I don’t believe you. You need more people. I don’t believe that the country will fall into a major recession/depression if we, the taxpayers don’t agree to an estimated $700 billion bailout of companies who, ironically enough, were in the financial business in the first place.
I don’t believe that I should use my hard-earned dollars to reward people who couldn’t manage their own or their stockholder’s funds with any measure of responsibility. I’m not getting a bailout for my bad decisions and debt, and trust me I don’t need anywhere near $700 billion. I may not be a Harvard M.B.A. or an economist, but I know b.s. when I smell it. This isn’t the only bailout, either. First it was AIG, and now the House has quietly passed a $25 billion bill to help Detroit automakers who were making gas-guzzling, energy inefficient, unreliable cars for years. (That bill is now awaiting approval from the Senate.)
I don’t believe you, Mr. President because you lied about Iraq. You told the American people there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we had to illegally occupy the country to get them. Turns out, our goal wasn’t WMD’s, it was oil so your homies at Haliburton could get rich off of the backs of innocent men and women who signed up to the military for a better life and ended up as victims of a war that never made sense.
I don’t believe you because you and your folks said that Homeland Security and the Patriot Act would make us safer, when instead it’s just helped slowly dismantle the Constitution.
So now you want me to believe that the country needs $700 billion dollars which will come out of the pocket of every American when millions of us can’t afford health insurance, gas or food? You mean to tell me that under your watch, things got this bad and nobody could see it coming before now? Is the fact that you went on TV and gave a speech and invited Obama, McCain and the heads of both parties to the White House supposed to impress me? Sorry. I ain’t buying your brand. You and cronies and have jacked up the country--maybe beyond repair and now you want to hit and run after you rape the U.S. Treasury for a couple billion? In the streets, that’s called "hijacking".
Maybe folks need to lose their homes and downsize to ones they can afford. That might revitalize our broken cities as homes are generally more affordable there. Maybe people don’t need to run up massive credit card debt at 18% per card. Maybe folks need to slow down on all the electronic gadgets and flat-screen TV’s that we now swear we can’t live without. Oh, but that would erode corporate profits right? Well, apparently corporations didn’t do too well with the model they have or we wouldn’t be in this mess. This is capitalist America. Tough economic times just mean someone will find a creative way to make money off the problem. So I say, from my position here as hood economist…let it be. Let the chips fall where they may. ‘Cause sorry, son, I don’t believe anything you’re selling and woe to those who do.
-Hellifiknow