Bailout Your Own Damn Self

Thursday, May 21st, 2009 by RLR

From uExpress
By Ted Rall

The calamari salad was world-class. Still, my friend the CPA’s face screwed up. “You know what still has me pissed off? The bailouts. All wasted on CEO bonuses. But nobody cares!”

I told him I thought people cared, but they didn’t know what they could do about it.

“I’ll tell you what we should do,” he fumed. “Stop paying our taxes. And our mortgages. They can’t throw us all in jail! They can’t evict us all!”

What should we demand?

“The bailout money. Make ‘em give back every cent to us, the people who need it.”

How would the money from The Mother of All Clawbacks be distributed? Equally? Should people in foreclosure get more? Or those who pay higher taxes? He didn’t know.

So some details need to be worked out. But the point remains: it’s time for a revolt.

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