Garrison Keillor: Where's the Outrage!!!
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They're Stealing from You and Me -- Where's the Outrage?
By Garrison Keillor, International Herald Tribune. Posted October 6, 2008.
It wasn't their money Wall Street was playing with. It was ours.
Where were the cops?
It's just human nature that some calamities register in the brain and others don't. The train engineer texting at the throttle ("HOW R U? C U L8R") and missing the red light and 25 people die in the crash -- oh God, that is way too real -- everyone has had a moment of supreme stupidity that came close to killing somebody. Even atheists say a little prayer now and then: Dear God, I am an idiot, thank you for protecting my children.
On the other hand, the America's federal bailout of the financial market (yawn) is a calamity that people accept as if it were just one more hurricane. An air of crisis, the secretary of the Treasury striding down a hall at the Capitol with minions in his wake, solemn-faced congressmen at the microphones. Something must be done, harrumph harrumph.
The Current Occupant pops out of the cuckoo clock and reads a few lines off a piece of paper, pronouncing all the words correctly. And the newscaster looks into the camera and says, "Etaoin shrdlu qwertyuiop."
Where is the outrage?
(...more @ link)
By Garrison Keillor, International Herald Tribune. Posted October 6, 2008.
It wasn't their money Wall Street was playing with. It was ours.
Where were the cops?
It's just human nature that some calamities register in the brain and others don't. The train engineer texting at the throttle ("HOW R U? C U L8R") and missing the red light and 25 people die in the crash -- oh God, that is way too real -- everyone has had a moment of supreme stupidity that came close to killing somebody. Even atheists say a little prayer now and then: Dear God, I am an idiot, thank you for protecting my children.
On the other hand, the America's federal bailout of the financial market (yawn) is a calamity that people accept as if it were just one more hurricane. An air of crisis, the secretary of the Treasury striding down a hall at the Capitol with minions in his wake, solemn-faced congressmen at the microphones. Something must be done, harrumph harrumph.
The Current Occupant pops out of the cuckoo clock and reads a few lines off a piece of paper, pronouncing all the words correctly. And the newscaster looks into the camera and says, "Etaoin shrdlu qwertyuiop."
Where is the outrage?
(...more @ link)
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alicynx
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Here's the link to the article itself.
I love Garrison Keillor, he's a favorite in my home with stories of Lake Woebegone lutherans that make even my seven year old chuckle.
Cassanova coming out for chastity - I like that ^_^ I feel he's spot on, for the most part, and has my backing as meager as it is... - 1 year ago
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alicynx
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barb_v
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Good question, and why isn't anyone questioning why Obama voted for this? Isn't he supposed to be about change? Continuing the same policy of bailing out the rich guys and dissing the rest of us - where is the change?
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barb_v
