Those dangeorus thrifty Americans!

Paraphrasing Chomsky on Obama's economic team:

Obama's economic advisers should not be giving advice.
They should be getting subpoenas.

We are through the looking glass, folks. Two major newspapers, usually intelligent, have shown signs of insanity. Both the links below came through the always interesting Life After the Oil Crash Breaking News page. First the London Times suggests punishing those socking away some money by taxing savings accounts.Second the Wall Street Journal blames thrifty families for fueling the economic meltdown.

I swear.

The devil's quadrangle of a psychotic housing bubble, rampant greed on Wall Street, the sale of the national soul to the Chinese, and a consumers gorging on debt isn't the problem! You people who have decided to cook meals at home, forgo another pointless toy, and save some cash are! Phew. Glad that is solved.

If the solution to the incoming Depression is to return to soulless consumerism - then I'll take the Depression.



I will "mad lib" the inauguration. Leading up to it I'll be asking for votes on random words, to be placed randomly in posts on Jan 20th...ala Mad Libs. For fun and for free...first poll below vote as many times as you like.