Oh The Asininity…
By The Misfit | September 26, 2008
I’m interrupting my Friday evening of reading (for school, not pleasure, so Ha! to all of those who, knowing me so well, figured on catching me doing anything except for what I’m supposed to be doing… 
) to simply say that this not only infuriates me to the point of seeing nothing but red, but also very much highlights the absurdity of how skewed (and yes I mean “skewed” athough “screwed” would work, too) American (and yes I absolutely mean to make that generalization) priorities are.
Would someone, anyone, please explain to me how this makes any kind of sense at all?
Greedy bastards are going to ruin us all. Alan H. Fishman should be utterly ashamed of himself, as should anyone of his ilk who would (and has) stoop(ed) so low as to accept a buyout payment of a ridiculous amount of money from a company that just went under.
And why do we sit back and let it go on? Have we, as a country, really become that spineless and accepting of this type of behavior?
Topics: annoyances for the misfit, misfit hall of shame, misfit human behavior, news for the misfit, wtf? asks the misfit | 6 Comments »
September 29th, 2008 at 11:04 am
You know I’m not surprised. The writing has been on the walls for over three decades. I even heard a one-time Reagan economist, now CEO from an investment firm argue the point that all countries around the world will continue to use the American dollar and credit system(of destruction?) because history in effect has ended with the individual consumer identity driven means to reality – and America is king when it comes to consuming – quasi perfect entities. Peter Schiff(sp?), the opposing economist didn’t ‘buy’ it. He reasoned that people didn’t like to work fifty to sixties hours a week at the Wal-Mart so that they can be ‘consumer winners’. He argued that debt society is slave society and people are going to start saving again and will not invest any more in the markets and will consume less junk for that matter… we’ll see. The McConsumption of life is addictive.
Why should any one in the USA pay off their debts or taxes? It makes absolutely no sense.
In the meant-time… haggis for everyone! Tell Mel Gibson I said hello.
September 29th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Hi Keith!
It’s a huge goal of mine to pay off my debts (which, with grad school, are growing by leaps and bounds) within the next 5-10 years. While I haven’t done a whole lot of research into this particular phenomenon in terms of opposing viewpoints, I don’t think the problem is an “either / or”. I think it’s a combination of the two – certainly Americans do like their “things” and will spend what they need to in order to get them, but I also agree with Peter Schiff (sp) that a debt society is a slave society – that’s the bad part about taking out loans (including credit cards); if for any reason you can’t pay them back (due either to an inability to repay on account of utter stupidity and greed or to something happening that is beyond one’s control) you’re pretty much screwed.
(As an aside, I know you’ve seen that I’ve been on Skype – talking to the family as it were…I generally don’t log on otherwise…but I haven’t forgotten about you! They had haggis on the menu at one of the restaurants on campus today. I declined and came back to my residence.
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September 29th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
There’s no beginning or end to history… hence the nature of the word ‘history’. It’s not something to be won but to be lived. Consciousness evolves or changes and the individual is at a cross-road of leaving the material dialectic – that’s why science is not ‘the answer’ and why religion still delivers the goods. The atom smasher of CERN is literally a 9 billion dollar toy to deliver a face to time and space (gravity and mass) and to save Einstein’s theory of relativity from disappearing into religiousness as presented in quantum science – the individual perspective is no longer viable and thus individual consumer items are going to become a catalyst for something other then ‘self’. Don’t worry, Garlic is there to stink it all up… As for the current American condition, I think the longer you live away from the madness, the clearer it becomes to you that America and American’s are quite radical and fundamental – enough so to make radical Islam look sane by comparison. Whether or not its a view you’re really going to want is a different question but you will notice how much more common sense even prevails in Great Britain… and the English and Scots are by no means as serious, rational and honest as Continental Europeans – Tony Blair is by far the best and most convincing liar I’ve ever heard. He even puts Bill Clinton to shame (there was no sense using George as the standard since he’s in a class all by himself).
Even Chancelor Merkel here in Germany gave George Bush a warning about continuing with credit and debt currency in which the rest of the world (i.e., Germany and Europe) get stuck paying the bill through inflation taxes. Continental Europe will be forced into making secret agreements behind closed doors with Russia, China and South America – and this will be a hard pill for American banks to swallow and will be catalyst for America to attack proxy-places like ‘Georgia’ or to deploy troops in the Czech Repub or Ukraine… that is if America isn’t already too broke to pay for the fuel to get the troops over here. History is far from over.
I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the taste of haggis – I know that I was.
September 30th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
I’m going to skip replying to the political stuff because… well, I’ve sort of got a sour taste in my mouth at the moment. Not your fault, of course, so sorry for that.
As for haggis, really, I’ve only heard good things about it. It would be different if I didn’t know what was in it, though.
October 1st, 2008 at 12:57 pm
I heard that too – it really pissed me off! Words can’t even express. Just over all this big fat mess.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:19 am
Yeah, Dezh, it’s all pretty much turned into a huge c.f. At least I saw this morning that they’ve finally passed a bailout bill (which, aside from the fact that the taxpayers should have to reward companies for their ridiculously bad behavior, it’s far better than the alternative of letting the economy fall into the toilet…)