Mere words cannot describe

Every now and again, I read an article that, literally, makes me want to throw up--for the sheer audacity of its bullshit, the factual misrepresentation, and the jeopardy for which it throws its readers into. Business articles are, by nature, pro business. This business article is pro bullshit. Susan Tompor--whose main claim to fame is writing some of the lamest business articles I have ever seen (we're talking brutal--my six-year-old has more sense than she does)--makes the entirely false claim that the Republican win makes an extension of the Bush-era tax cuts more likely. No, no, no. It makes the the extension of the tax cuts for the wealthy more likely--Democrats never, never, never claimed to want to end all of the tax cuts. Just the ones for the wealthy--who, by the way, are the reason we're in this mess. According to Tompor--and the several wall street toadies she quoted for the article--this will be good for the stock market, and therefore good for all of us. Tompor even goes so far as to tell us that the wealthy--you know, the ones who fuck us over every day at our jobs and in our government--will better be able to commit money to small business if their taxes don't increase. How does she know this? She must have pulled it out of her fat ass because there is no empirical evidence anywhere on this fucking planet that supports that statement. Not a fucking one--and the fucking Free Press actually wasted space on this fucking pinhead. No, the only thing the republican takeover of the House means is that it's back to business as usual for wall street--gambling your 401k money on Ponzi schemes and jeopardizing millions of Americans livelihoods. Anyone who believes differently is a fool. The rich can afford to lose millions in the market--we cannot. Hedge fund managers, investment firms, wealth managers, traders, hookers, and coke dealers--for these folks, the extension of the Bush-era tax cuts is a win. For the rest of us...think back to the fall of 2008. Perhaps the aspect of the article that bothers me the most, though, is the way that the tax cuts for the middle class are an afterthought. We spend the money that drives this economy, we do the actual work (as opposed to sitting on your ass and pretending that you know what you're doing) that drives this economy, we start the small businesses that drive this economy--and in Susan Tompor's world (and the republicans' world as well), we're merely an afterthought. Kind of makes me wonder who's really paying Ms. Tompor's salary.... Peace, emaycee

All the CEO's Men

There's a great line in All the President's Men where Deep Throat tells Bob Woodward (concerning the Nixon administration), that "These guys really aren't that bright." It was a hard lesson that the American people learned during the seventies--our government's leaders weren't necessarily the best and the brightest, and since we've held a good deal of skepticism towards our nation's leaders. Can we finally do the same for our corporate leaders? After the auto industry disaster, the Wall Street disaster, the BP disaster, Enron, ad nauseum, can we finally admit that corporate leaders really aren't that bright, really aren't that good at what they do, and are not the best and the brightest we have? Thank you! Peace, emaycee