The real AIG bonus story

Everything you know about the AIG bonus story is contrived to distract you.

Noteworthy:

"Class envy has been a defining staple of the left for centuries, from the frenzied mobs leaping around the French guillotines to the Soviets to, well, the new masses circling AIG executives today. The difference is merely the degree of response -- a question of socially acceptable force or violence."


More, from Victor Davis Hanson:

"In other words, we — through our government — are spending money that we don’t have. We’re told the rich will pick up the tab, even though there are not enough rich with enough money to squeeze out the necessary amounts. Our new demagogues, though, are arguing that this is the only fair course of action. Meanwhile, these leaders — who have taken so much Wall Street money in the past — are driving us into fury to punish the guilty on Wall Street. This is truly the age of mindless mob rule.

Of course, we probably won’t hear any candidate in four years assure the voters, “I won’t take any more money from Wall Street and will give back any that I already got. And if elected, I promise four consecutive years of budget cuts to achieve each year $1.5 trillion in annual budget surpluses. Only that way can we get the national debt back down to the past ‘manageable’ 2008 sum of $11 trillion.”

We need such a Socrates in Washington right now, who would dare tell the American mob the truth of how we are descending into financial serfdom. But in this present mood, the aroused mob would first make him drink the hemlock."

It's not about greedy corporate America. It's not about wasting taxpayers' money. It's not about the stimulus or the bailout. It's not about reviving the economy and making this better for all Americans.

It's all about Rich versus Middle Class (leading to Poor versus Middle Class too), Divide and Conquer politics. Victimization. Shameless grandstanding and pandering.

It's all about greedy hack politicians, mostly of the Dem/Lib/"Progressive" variety, such as Dodd. Frank. Pelosi. Schumer. Reid. And most of all, the Zero himself, our 44th President of the United States of America.

It's all about Mob Rule. Intimidation. Indoctrination. Revisionism. Control.

And ultimately, it's about the politics of Hate, and it's all for The Agenda.

They do it so well, don't they?

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