September 17, 2008- The Parting Gifts

   Pretty much everyone on earth has seen a game show on TV somewhere along the line and no matter what kind they are, they all pretty much follow the same format, that people compete in some kind of way to try and win fabulous prizes and money and shit, while the in-studio audience goes fucking wild with excitement watching the dipshits in these absurd competitions. With these shows, there is only one winner player or team, everybody else goes home second best or even less. However, unlike in life, those that do not come in first do not go away from these game shows empty-handed, not at all. They are always given what is called a "parting gift", usually some kind of shit that one of the show's sponsors or another make or sell, so that the game show looks like it is as fucking cool as it gets, giving away shit to the people that doi not even win, no wonder the in-studio audience goes so apeshit. These parting gifts are always something "lovely" as the show puts it, and they have a very loose definition of that word judging by what they use it on. But the people behind thsese shows know exactly what they are doing with these parting gifts, not only are they used as advertising for some company, but they make TV game shows look larger and Greater than life itself, they even give away prizes to the losers. That makes the viewers wish that real life was like that, that you didn't always have to come in first to get something in society, after all, there are a lot of people in the races, and it is hard as hell to win. The fact that many of these societal races are fixed in favor of the powerful and wealthy make them even harder to win, so the ordinary man wishes that he could get a lovely parting gift in life that would make him feel better about being a loser, like the dudes and chicks on the game shows do. However, the person that does get the lovely parting gift on a game show is the winner. They won the competition anyway, so why do they need a parting gift on top of what they have already won, and besides that, many game show winners get to keep coming back until they do lose and finally get that lovely parting gift. But if they keep winning time and time again, like that one dude did on Jeopardy, winning for weeks on end until he smashed all the records, the winners never need a parting gift. When that Ken Jenkins or whatever the fuck his name is finally lost on Jeopardy, he had zero need for a parting gift, because his mammoth winning streak not only won him all kinds of prizes and shit from the show, it made him into a national and even international celebrity and he was essentially set for life. his continual wins made him able to get that way, and when you look at the competitions in real life, the same people that keep winning all of the time should be set for life, and they sure as hell seem to be, because the most conspicuous examples of this are the major corporations, they win all the time, especially these last eight years since the Bush Administration took over, the corporations have won like never before with him at the helm. They have made money like never before and have gone through it like that as well, it is been boom time for the big businesses of America these last eight years. George W. Bush has been very good to them, better than any game show host in the history of TV could ever hope to be to anyone and you would think that they would be rolling in the tallest clover patches that you could imagine by now as they are richer and stronger than even they could have ever hoped to be and that life would be the proverbial bowl of cherries.

   However, the reality is that things are not that good in Big Business these days, there are some serious problems at the top. Huge corporations that should be in the finest financial shape of their lives are teetering on the brink of collapse and many are falling over that edge. People are freaking out about this all over America and the world and the state of the economy has become a major issue in the Presidential campaign, every bit as much as the war issue now. Everyone wants to know what happened, why are the large corporations and the banks all in such shitty shape and what needs to be done about it. Pundits and talk show hosts throughout America are weighing in on the subject and it is surely going to have a major impact on the way that America votes come November. But the reason that we are in this state right now is very simple, the climate that the Bush Administration has created for these businesses these last eight years was not just one where they could makes enormous piles of money, but one where no one was keeping any sort of eye at all on what these fuckers were up to, making sure that they did not violate the laws that they simply could not, the laws of finance, because that is what their world revolves around, not the laws of society or mankind. So when Bush came in, he went for that approach full-blast, and essentially threw the laws of society out the window as far as Mr. Businessman was concerned, hoping that thi swould enrich him beyond all expectations. However, Mr. Businessman has no fucking clue as to what he is doing, he is an addict after all, and does not think clearly, so all he saw was an open superhighway and blasted on that baby as hard and fast as he could. He played games with other people's money that had been entrusted to him, buying shit with it that could not be afforded and playing all sorts of shell games, moving money around from here to there so that no one could know quite what he was doing. In doing so, Mr. Businessman violated all the laws of finance and ended up fucking shit up royally. They kept money for themselves that they had no right to, while others lost everything because of their malfeasances. Bush kept looking thr other way because the dudes that were taking home that money that they had no right to were his pals, and the people that were getting burned were just ordinary folks, people that Bush has never been about. These fuckers kept doing this shit on a larger and larger scale and more and more people started getting fucked, and now we have come to the point where these corporations have fucked everything up so badly that they are teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and shit, and that would mean that countless others would lose everything because of the games that Bush has allowed his pals to play for all these years. The bills that everyone knew were coming are starting to come due, and America is becoming a mess because there are just too fucking many of these corporations in this state now. You have Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage holders for much of America, totally fucked and threatening to take millions of Americans down with them, and the Bank Of America, one of the nation's largest banking chains in a similar situation, as is Merrill Lynch, the brokerage firm and one of America's largest insurers, AIG Corporation. All these huge corporations being in such shitty shape is threatening to drag America right down again after it has started to get back up again, because if they all failed, much of America would fail and go down with them too.

   However, these corporations stil have the ultimate game show host living in the White House and he has seen that his pals have made like Ken Jennings and their fabulous winning streak is now history and they have lost the game. So like the good game show host, Bush has decided that he wants to hand out some fabulous parting gifts to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Merrill Lynch, AIG, and Bank of America. He has worked out deals with all of these failing corporations to bail them out of whatever financial trouble they have gotten themselves into, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars at least. Every single one of these corporations that has ruined themselves through their own incompetence and greed is getting bailed out totally by the Federal Government. Bush's hacks are all saying that this has to come down because these corporations cannot be allowed to failbecause it would be bad for America and so forth. The real reason that this has to come down is because everyone knew that this was going to happen, and they all timed it so that it would not happen until now, when the Bush Administration was in its last few months so they could just bail the corporations out and then be gone shortly thereafter so that no one could ever hold them accountable for that. Bush was well aware that his corporate pals were going to ruin everything sooner or later, it was just a question of whether they would be able to do it while Bush was still President, and it seems that they have. So, as always with the Bush Administration, there was a plan cooked up to deal with all of this shit, and it was cooked up long ago, just kept quiet so that it would not come out before it was needed. Bush would never let his corporate patrons lose anything, so he is giving them the loveliest parting gifts of all time, billions of dollars in the taxpayer's money. This was agreed on long ago and that is why the whole thing has come down so quickly and smoothly. By the time that the true effect of this action is felt, the Bush Administration is long gone, and the new Administration will have the bills for all of this coming due on them. Meanwhile, all the fuckers at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Bank of America, ande Merril Lynch that caused all of this shit in the first place are long gone, and lonbg gone with a very generous financial package for them in it as well. None of their millions upon millions of dollars in undeserved salaries is going to be touched here, the money to pay for the mess that they created will come from the American taxpayers, now and for generations to come. The coroprate assfucks that caused all of this are not only not going to be going to any prisons or anything, but they are going to become free agents, able to sell their services on the open market so that they can get another powerful position with another large corporation and do the same shit all over again and cause another catastrophe because they feel that Washington wil come and bail them out no matter what they do. Meanwhile, the average American is going to be paying more for this, that, and the other thing all across the board, making his already difficult life even harder. Bush will not be avalable to yell at either, he'll be on the ranch in Texas sawing logs and shit, and the new President will not be the one responsible for this mess, so yelling at him will do no good. So these parting gifts to Mr. Businessman from the Bush Administration are going to have effects for as long time, far longer than any appliances or other gadgets that game show contestants receive.

   It is one last slap in the face to the American people from an Administration that never even pretended to represent those people, only the rich corporations and such and who has always acted that way. Everything that this Administration has done has been for the corporations and against the regular people, and this is the last manifestation of that. Bush no longer even tries to hide the fact that he has always been in the pcokets of these corporations anymore, not if does shit like this. It is also a great way for an extremely arrogant and pompous man to get back at the people that no longer support him unanimously anymore, to give them the finger in their faces. If they don't like him, so what, they never had to anyway, the only people that ever mattered to Bush were the corporate people so he is now giving them one last undeserved reward while simultaneously fucking the Average American over one last time. Doing this ensures that Bush shall get a very large share of the profits once he retires, because he has done everything that his patrons have asked of him, he created a lawless atmosphere for them to make money in and when they fucked that all up, he bailed them out on the end. Everyone that was supposed to get richer has and everyone that was supposed to be a scapegoat has been as well. That means that Bush has a whole pile of loot coming to him when he retires to the ranch in a few months, and that is really all he has ever cared about anyway, what he will get out of it all in the end, and bailing out all these failing corporations at the end of his Administration ensures that he gets his. So watch for the Administration to start bailing out even more of these failed businesses, they are about to start coming out of the woodwork looking for absolution for their financial sins, and Bush will continue to dole it out all the way to his final hours in office if he has to. What we are seeing now is the tip of the iceberg, in these last four months of the Bush Administration, there will surely be more and more of these stories, and what that will show is what a shitty job all these big businessmen have done these last eight years, and that they did such a shitty job because they forgot the cardinal rule of their whole fucking business scene, they had no incentive whatsoever to do a good job because they knew that they'd be bailed out in the end by Bush so they did jackshit all along. The fact that they have seriously fucked up America in the process is immaterial to them, because all that fuckers like these care about is themselves, and the last eight years of that being catered to on the highest levels has turned America into something altogether different that it was once,but that matters not to them, because they knew that they would win the competition all along, no matter what kind of a job they did and whether or not they really lost, and doing that in a society that is totally tied in to the laws of finance has proven to be a disaster, a disaster that they knew was coing all along. They have never cared because it was never a disaster for them, that was what Bush was for, to ensure that, and he has more than anyone could have ever thought and the lovely parting gifts that he has for his friends and cronies shows that only one segment of society has meant anything these last eight years. The scope of this financial bailout shit is dure to be massive, and if it is too massive, one has to wonder whether George W. Bush's lovely parting gift to the rest of America will be financial and economic ruin for millions.

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