The Rubbish Man, & The Presidents

While deleting old Blogs I didn't want to keep any more, I came the one below, and I began to wonder what anyone think of the situation then, different yet similar today and, most of all, what is the public view of the presidents then and now. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ** My Old Blog 'The Rubbish Man' posted on 28th Sept, 2008, on Multiply ** We have now the 2nd version of the story about the rubbish man. The first was invented and told by the Marx Brothers. Zeppo said: " Papa, the man of the rubbish has arrived." To which Groucho replied: "Tell him we don't want any today." That was also in the period of crisis like today, and that little sketch was considered the funniest of the American humour. It seems that the crises we are having now is different. Or that the humour has changed. Now it goes like this: The man of the rubbish calls at the door of the White House, and the principal tenant asks what price. "Well, roughly 700,000 millions € and one cent." says the rubbish man tentatively. And Bush replies: " We will take the lot!" Perhaps the difference between the Marx's version was a dialogue, and the Bush's is more of a monologue. The rubbish man and the president are the same man. A reputable economist, Paul Krugman, resume the process with sarcasm: "The unthinkable has become the inevitable." The proposed 'New Deal', the saving plan to correct the situation of crisis, merely seems to do no more than carrying on with the game to the end. This was deducted with precision by another respectable investigator, Michael Hudson. What does it pledge? Socialize the loss. To shift, dislodge, oust (each chooses the word deemed proper) the responsibility of price control to the workforce. To entrap, ensnare Obama, he added. In the meanwhile, our thinking tank is muddled with more confusing questions than answers. The American president Bush was urging the Congress yesterday to give the green light to the plan of salvaging Wall Street. He feared the wayward setback like the night before, when an agreement was reached then later a group of Republicans interrupted the negotiation and counter- presented an alternative at the last moment. Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats wish to appear, just 40 days before the election, as being responsible of using public money, to save a group of unscrupulous companies, in full view of the majority of voters. In fact, apparently 45% of the citizens are opposed to such a plan of saving grace. Tags: marxbrothers,presidents,rubbishman

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