The October Revolution: America’s $700 Billion Bailout Plan Would Make Lenin Proud
October 1st, 2008 by Charles Feldman | 1 Comment | Filed in Commentary, Economy
Of course Congress had to wait till October to pass the $700 billion socialization of the American economy: October is, after all, the month best known for the Bolshevik revolution that brought Vladimir Lenin and gang to power in Russia.
How fitting, then, that the Senate and then the House will no doubt approve a measure that will have taxpayers bailing out bankers and putting the U.S. government into the business of running banks and mortgage houses (of course, it already does so with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and AIG.)
No one seems to be talking about the hidden cost of going from school to school and library to library to purge them of ancient texts that actually refer to the United States as having a free market place.
One thing that should by now be readily apparent: this crisis is really not about subprime mortgages and really never was. It is about the invention of a alternate banking system that was not regulated or really supervised in any way…a system that operated at a level of greed and probable criminality the likes of which we haven’t really seen in this country since the days of the robber barrons.
And, guess what? The robbery is still ongoing! Of course the bailout will end up costing $700 billion and probably more, even though we are being told it is unlikely to in the end.
Of course taxpayers won’t get their money back. Of course the proposed limits on executive pay will be worthless; companies will skirt this by just paying executives more with things such as stock options in place of straight salary, thus getting around the rule (provided it passes, of course.)
If Lenin weren’t so waxed lying in state in Red Square, he’d be smirking at what is happening in the U.S.
But as the great-grandfather of the October Revolution, he would certainly understand.
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