Socialism

From the desk of H-Ross Parrot Now, before I get started, I just want to clear one thing up: a lot of people keep talking about how this is Socialism. This is a major and serious misconception. See, with Socialism, you get things like, for example, Socialised Medicine (notice the "Socialised" in "Socialised Medicine", which is a clue in case y'all are wondering). OK now stay with me here, people. Here's the hard part, so take a deep breath first: with Socialism, you fork over a whole bunch of your money to Big Government, and in return, you get things like Health, Education and Welfare (which has a ring to it, don't it? Health, Education and Welfare). OK now, I know that was hard, but stay with me here: in America you give a whole bunch of money to Big Government, and you get basically nothing in return, or maybe ten cents on the dollar or something. You sure as heck don't get Health or Education, and the Corporations make out better on the Welfare angle than anyone else. So all these bailouts and such and letting Hank declare himself a God are not socialism, because all y'all will get in return is a whole extra big pile of debt (which will be defaulted on anyway so you don't really need to worry about that except for when all your money also becomes worthless afterwards and a single Freedom Fry in France will cost you one hundred million dollars or just a pound of any other recyclable paper. OK now, are y'all still with me? Any questions? Y'all get the Not Socialism part? The basic message remains the same: Obey! In other news: See here, now, it's just like I said: Alien Banksters! He talks about other stuff too, but trust me on this, Alien Banksters are behind it. .... What happened on September 18-19 took years of preparation, capped by a faux ideology crafted by public-relations think tanks to be broadcast under emergency conditions to panic Congress - and voters - right before the presidential election. This seems to be our September election surprise. Under staged crisis conditions, Pres. Bush and Treasury Secretary Paulson are now calling for the country to come together in a War on Defaulting Homeowners. This is said to be the only hope to "save the system." (What system is this? Not industrial capitalism, or even banking as we know it.) The largest transformation of America's financial system since the Great Depression has been compressed into just two weeks, starting with the doubling of America's national debt on September 7 with the nationalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.....