The bureaucrats read the Wallstreet script. It never occurred to them that Wallstreet had to do something to swindle the world. These government workers think you just have to say something. I guess they learned from The One.

DC gave out bonuses,too. Our governments have become like the Mafia of old. We’re paying for “protection”. You can forget about infrastructure.

Featuring Larry Summers as Clarence the Angel

“Don’t jump off the bridge George. Let’s see what life would have been like if you never had been born. If you had never been born … Hillary would have won the nomination and then election. Aw, shit. Never mind. Jump off the bridge, George. You’ve reached your lifetime health insurance cap anyway. Plus you’re a banker and Obama is rilly, rilly mad at bankers, even bankers with one dollar left in the bank at the end of the day. Go on, jump. And make it snappy because I’m freezing my ass off. And Mr. Potter is throwing a fund raiser for Obama in 30 minutes.”

Next, it will be the media. Obama will soon be mad as hell at the media for not reporting the made up jobs in the nonexistence districts…he created……. huh… huh… huh….

See, there’s something called experience that’s a personal knowledge acquired over time when you are involved in something call work which Obama has zero history of doing or knowing.

Now, how the hell is he going to create jobs when he knows nothing about work or job creation…?? huh…. huh.. huh.. huh….. Karma is a bitch..! Oh lord, help us all!!!

A year ago Obama rode to victory because of a suspiciously timed meltdown of the economy. The collapse of the housing market by accumulated bad paper from countless unwise loans pushed through by the very liberal social engineering CRA, caused a huge ripple effect throughout our banking system and therefor the economy as a whole. Warnings were given by people who realized the potential and likely bubble burst (McCain, Dole, Sununu, and others) but they were ignored and suppressed by the very people who would eventually benefit from the collapse, namely progressive ideologues.

Perhaps the most profound and toxic changes in our country took place under FDR. He was able to use the misery of the Great Depression to his advantage in ramming through many of the most radical changes this country had ever experienced. He played on a citizenry that was so hungry for hope and change, that they didn’t mind the huge departure from the principles that had changed this country from an agrarian colony to an industrial powerhouse. The changes FDR introduced were such a radical move to the far left, that Mussolini even praised him for “..the assumption of extraordinary powers as evidence that dictatorial methods were superceding democratic governments.” And contrary to the ubiquitous urban myth, FDR’s policies didn’t fix the Great Depression, they extended it, and in some cases, made it worse.

Obama and his progressive/Marxist pals are counting on societal unrest to ram their insane Utopian turd balls down our throats. this is the Cloward-Pivens strategy being run to perfection. The cures for our current abysmal state of affairs were available over a year ago, and intelligent people begged for them, but they were not the people in power. Tarp, the stimulus, and the outrageous “health care” and cap and trade proposals were/are exactly the WRONG thing to do at this time, and they know it. Reduction in government spending, temporary elimination of capital gains and reduction in corporate taxes, would have done wonders to fire up our economy. Obama and his devotees don’t want a proven fix though. They want us beaten down and miserable to the point where we will gladly abandon our devotion to individual liberty in favor of a brutally forced social and economic egalitarianism. And this long dreamed of reduction of humanity to the lowest common denominator will not stop at our borders, the whacked out progressive loons want to extend the misery worldwide (think Copenhagen), while they and all or their best friends will be safely walled off from the filthy proletariat.

The Interstate 80 bridge over the Mississippi River has been reduced to one lane each direction after cracks were found in it last May.

Bids for repair have not yet been let, though the Iowa and Illinois D’s OT (for you grammarians out there) have stated that repairs should be complete by November, 2010.

In the meantime, it’s still carrying traffic. Not to worry, though. They’re “monitoring” it.

Locals, for the most part, are avoiding it whenever possible. Unfortunately, the closest alternative–the I-74 bridge–isn’t in much better shape.

OTOH, we see a lot of new resurfacing projects, complete with signs announcing them as part of the economic recovery act. There’s not much work on the underlayment…just slap a coat of blacktop on it and it’s good to go.

Kind of a metaphor for our current administration, dontcha think?

Four years later, remembering those words still sends my blood pressure off the chart.

The only encouraging aspect to this display of cluelessness is that John Q. does “get it” and he’s becoming madder by the day.

STOP PLAYING POLITICS AND HELP AMERICA YOU DOLTS!

To say he wasn’t heavily influenced by Bill Ayers and Rashid Khalidi is folly.

Shame on Summers et al. for being his enablers.

And Hillary had better get the hell out of there lest she be permanently stained as one of Obama’s enablers.

We have 100+-year-old dams and levies, old highways, national parks in sad disrepair, and on and on.

Our government could create a big infrastructure jobs program that would 1) employ a hell of a lot of people, and 2) cure the frightening ancient infrastructure.

One small example: New Orleans’ isn’t the only levy system in desperate need of fixing. Seattle — yes, Seattle — has a levy system for a major river that is ancient and has to be repaired asap. If it breaks, and it will one of these days, the clean-up will be massive.

And think about all the bridges that desperately need repair or must be rebuilt.

If Obama wants a LEGACY — that seems to be the only thing he cares about — he could be the president who rebuilt our nation’s infrastructure. But I guess, in his oversized ego, that isn’t as sexy as a radical health care plan. But — if he thought a bit more about history — he’d recall that Teddy Roosevelt is remembered as much for what he did for our national park system as for anything else that Teddy accomplished.

And, for a further LEGACY goody, he could be the president who created a major jobs program that cut unemployment in half and added mightily to our nation’s tax rolls, thereby helping to reduce the massive deficit. (That’s because people who are employed in jobs that pay well must pay taxes, and they furthermore buy goods which ramp up sales and other taxes, and it all goes to helping both the federal and state revenue streams.)

Why does this not get considered? It’s beyond me.