OK, it’s true. I’m not a regular blogger! I haven’t been blogging for the last week or so. It’s been busy, seeing as how it is the end of the quarter, and there’s lots yet to do. There was also a ton of stuff going on for the last week in political news, with twists and turns worthy of a Law and Order episode. Who knew about AIG bonuses and when did they know? Did Geithner approved the bonuses? Did Dodd know? How much was paid to some of the folks involved in this by AIG? Do the people from AIG get bonuses, don’t they, or is a bill of attainder constitutional? Who didn’t know what a bill of attainder was before last week? What a mess.
Anyway! Time for some righteous indignation, done right.
If you haven’t seen or heard the next piece yet, you’re in for a treat. Hooray for the Internet and YouTube, which allows thing like this to go viral and get the exposure they deserve. Of course, this also brings us things like the two Chinese students who lip sync Backstreet Boys songs, but on the whole, it’s worth it. No more waiting for Big Media to decide what is “important” news and what is not.
Daniel Hannan is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South-East England. Last week he laid into Gordon Brown, who as Prime Minister of Great Britain, is implementing similar disastrous polices in the UK as we’re now seeing in the US. Unfortunately for the UK, they’ve been doing it for longer, so their economy sucks more.
Here’s my favorite part:
“I’ve long accepted that you’re pathologically incapable of accepting responsibility for these things – it’s that you’re carrying on, wilfully worsening the situation, wantonly spending what little we have left. Last year, in the last twelve months, 125,000 private sector jobs have been lost – and yet you’ve created 30,000 public sector jobs. Prime Minister you cannot go on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorging of the unproductive bit.”
I encourage you to watch the entire thing. Then, I encourage you to ask your local representative why we’re not seeing similar pointed language from them directed at the current Congress and Administration.
