Can You Spare Some Change?

After spending his time in the Senate deregulating the banking industry, Phil Gramm has become a banker. Oh what a surprise.The man who's mantra was government is not the solution should now turn down government help, should he not? But that's not going to happen because he meant government is not the solution for working Americans. If your a rich fat cat, government is very much the solution. Maybe what he really meant to say was keep the people off big business's back. Or don't let the common man get in the way of big business greed and corruption. Apparently Gramm thinks food stamps are a waste because in America "the poor are fat". He also thinks that Wall Street is Holy. Sure Phil, in money we trust. The scary thing about the financial crisis is it isn't just a product of Republicans, who are the party of the rich, after all. No the Clinton administration is as much to blame as all the followers of our great Howdy Doody President, Ronald Reagan. It was Reagan who resurrected the Republican Party with his Orwellian double speak. Greed is good, the rich pay to much tax, markets self regulate. Oh please! Reagan was the master of big brother bullshit, even naming war missiles "Peace Keepers". And Americans, dumb and naive as they are, ate it up. It was no accident that Reagan was an actor. If W's wasn't from a rich political family he would have been a game show host, or a car salesman. And what about our new President elect? He has surrounded himself with former Clinton economic advisers. Certainly his selection of Joe Biden, old dead white man, was a sign to the establishment not to worry. Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State? Even the old Republican war criminal Henry Kissinger approves. It would appear that the more things change, the more they stay the same.