Tuesday, July 19, 2011

May I Please Have The Number For Scotland Yard?

Boy, what do you think of the News Corp scandal involving Rupert Murdock? Can you imagine? Eleven people have been arrested as of this morning over the hacking of communications, even of a dead girls voicemail. Just think, eleven arrested already. And to think, the largest economic tragedy in more then sixty years, the late Great Recession, which was triggered by "to big to fail" Wall Street Bankers that has wreaked havoc and financial disaster around the world. That forced our government to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to bail these bankers out and has caused overwhelming job losses, a collapse of the housing industry, caused tens of thousands of people to loose their homes, peoples savings and retirement funds have disappeared nearly overnight. And how many people have been arrested so far? Surely, compared to a hacking scandal, a financial debacle of this magnitude will have brought wholesale arrests and more then a few suicides. Surely our leaders in government will have ferreted out the wrongdoers and brought them to a swift justice. Surely by now, now that the worst of the nightmare is over, at least for the wealthy and the Wall Street Bankers who are to blame for the Recession and are now reaping record profits, surely by now the court system is overloaded with trials of these rascals. Surely the country can rest easy in the knowledge that, by now, our government has passed laws that will protect us from such financial chicanery. Surely we can count on our government. Surely. Well, uhhh, ahhh, well actually ahhh, to be completely frank and honest, ahhh, our congress and the President and all the departments having any jurisdiction over any of this sad state of affairs have ahhh been ahhh, how can I say this, ahhh they have not arrested any Wall Street Bankers other then maybe a couple of bank tellers. Ahhh Jeez. You mean to tell me that the folks that caused all this trouble are now facing the terrible penalty of reaping record profits? Is that what you're telling me? Ahhh well, in a word, ahhh, ummm, yes. Ya know what? I think our government should outsource our investigations to Scotland Yards. They at least can find people to arrest. Now, who can we outsource our government to?

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