Credit Crackers love Gitmo
© Helena Lind · Filed Under Features · Add your comment
While confidence is eroding once more in the face of lovely deeds of
so many kindly governments I am beginning to think again about this crisis and
it’s origins.
It is a crisis on more than one level and has more than one
root cause.
I am a peace loving creature.
But the deeper I dive into this
mess the more I could get started on being not quite so peace loving for a
bit.
Let me begin with a little story:
There is this little guy who
recently had to fold his little company.
He always was as decent as the next
man in his business and had a reputation for being a
fine reliable earner.
When the bullets flew closer he tried to communicate
his sorrows and mark a possibly imminent liquidity crunch.
Familiar terms of
late? Betcha!
Well, little man got nowhere and his cries for help went
unheard if not ignored deliberately.
In the end he could not keep solvent and
had to call the administrators in.
First thing he did was to apologise all
round.
Not that it helped him much. Not that anyone of those who profited
from his work many a year calling him “best mate” tried to analyze or understand
his critical situation and so almost nobody reached out to him even down to
little guy’s own family, conspicuous by their absence ever since the rivers of
Moneylon ran dry.
Then there was outrage about the little guy’s big failure
and he was condemned by all his peers and their uncle in disdain and
contempt.
What was his big crime again? Yes, he had grown lazy, indifferent,
he spent too much on all and sundry in return for a little shallow flattery and
improvised emotions. He was a wee bit irresponsible here and there perhaps and
definitely too naive and slow.
But what is that compared to those miscreants
who brought us the Subprime Crisis, the Credit Crunch and now the turbulent
volatility game show ‘Recession or Depression?’ soon on your screens in the
comfort of your own home. That I call organized crime on an unprecedented scale
featuring banks, funds and their so called regulators. THAT I call
failure.
So the advanced western world has been entertaining demons
unawares?
Really?
Not so sure, feels like the judges are somehow siding
with the baddies in the dock.
Little guy is being grilled alive whereas the
real culprits are more or less getting away unscathed? Did you hear any of them
say sorry?
Can you remember how this breed of fraudsters had been hyped by
the media for years?
Investment bankers, fund managers & Co. were
considered “toxic bachelors” whereas all they really are is toxic
waste.
Watch ‘Sex and the City’ if you feel like to feel sick.
Women were
going crazy for those medical firsts – sleek humanoid outfits but inside just
full of nothing but sh*t.
These ‘Mr. Bigs’ were hailed left, right and center
as heroes.
Motto: how to find your soul mate including a home in the
Hamptons.
Speculators on both sides of the cloth.
Disown and send THEM
poxy parasites to Guantanamo Bay – THE Des Res for terrorists.
Don’t they
have Pilates?
P.S. Little guy is in the process finding his feet again and was last seen en
route to a new and wiser life. Like the rest of us. I can see the light from
here already.
This article published by MIZPAH Magazine - ©2010 www.mizpah.tv
© Helena Lind
Good thinking, you should write a book!
bloody right and they should never have a Mizpah as that is only for decent people.
Thank you Gus for pointing that out so succinctly.
You are right, MIZPAH is for the good ones but also for those who want to turn their lives around so:
MIZPAH – for times to come
everybody should have one