It's obvious now that shoveling money at bankers is doing little, if anything, to "stimulate" the economy. And after all, we're trusting the same folks.... It's obvious now that shoveling money at bankers is doing little, if anything, to "stimulate" the economy. And after all, we're trusting the same folks who got us into this mess through their shortsighted venality, to get us out of it by sacrificing their pride and comfort and becoming different kinds of people from what they have been for twenty, thirty, forty years and more. It's not likely to happen, though Mr. Obama seems to be wishing that it would.

Then there's the odd idea that you resolve a crisis brought about by too much debt by enticing people to take on yet more debt--while still keeping wages and employment low enough to satisfy the corporate cabal....

So I have written a little song to Mr. Obama, letting him know how we here on the street feel about bank bailouts as they are now.

Sing it to the tune of the old Irish favorite "Danny Boy." If you don't know the tune, click the little music player below:
And here's the words, courtesy of yer editor, Rick Risemberg:

Barack Hussein, the banks, the banks are lying to you
From coast to coast, across this shattered land.
They took the bailout cash and hid it out of view,
And now they plead they're poor and need another hand.

Barack Hussein, don't let them cheat us any more,
Don't let them fool you with their filthy lies.
They see the US citizenry as their whore;
They're naught but pinstriped pirates drooling on their ties!

Barack Hussein, the time has come to take command;
It's time to show those bastards who's the boss.
The cash they've stashed away belongs to all the land;
It's not the working stiff who ought to bear the loss.

Grab a guitar, sing it in a bar, sing it on the corner, sing it everywhere!

They've given us sprawl, debt, low wages, unemployment, and a collapsing ecosystem...perhaps we ought not to be paying them to keep it up?