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February 20, 2009
Yesterday I wrote this post on CNBC’s nattering nitwit Rick Santelli ranting and raving over the news that the stimulus bill was going to benefit a few home owners. Santelli managed to get a dozen or so traders on the Chicago trading floor to root him on in his disgust for those homeowners whom Santelli says are nothing but losers. Today the White House actually had the bad taste to respond to Santelli’s greed & ignorance. So what does this tell us? It tells us that if a single person with the right podium screams loud enough the President of the United States of America will respond to them.
In my aforementioned post I said it wasn’t what Santelli said yesterday that bothered me; what bothered me then and now is his absolute arrogance of placing himself above the common people of this country, and his hypocrisy with who gets taxpayer money. Santelli and his loyal subjects at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange was all cheers when trillions of taxpayer dollars were going to their gods on Wall Street; the very people who put us in this mess, not the home owners. But that’s ok with him and his followers. However, I digress; it’s not Santelli that I want to address here.
I’ve lost count on how many posts I’ve written where I said or implied that if we commoners would band together and screamed loud enough in the right place, we would get the hierarchy in Washington to start listening to us instead of those that have had their ears for the past 30 plus years. And Rick Santelli has just proven my point better than anything I could say or write. How long will we put up with this? Its time to act. If President Obama and others will jump through the hoops for one idiot and twelve dummy’s, imagine what they would do if five million people stood in front of the White House and demanded our $74 billion back. That’s the amount the Wall Street boys paid themselves in bonuses out of the $125 billion from taxpayers that was supposed to be used to loan out (naturally, the nitwit Santelli doesn’t have a problem with that). And we wouldn’t need NBC or CNBC’s stage to voice our concerns. The front lawn of the White House will do just fine.
And speaking of those two networks, why don’t they just rename themselves Fox 2 and Fox 3, then they would be sharing the front line for the gods of Wall Street; the ones Santelli and his cohorts seem to care about.
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