Lumps of Coal

Certain politicians, particularly Democrats in this current health care debate, merit nothing but coals but have instead received lavish legal bribery as a payoff to support the legislation. Ben Nelson has been a very bad Senator with his egregious behaviour, but he was not punished but rewarded with the other forty-nine states being forced to pick up the tab for Nebraska. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner praised himself and venerated his master Obama in an interview on ABC news this morning for saving the nation from recession, but bad little tax cheat economists who puff success and glom onto credit for a natural economic cycle that would have brought recovery possibly even faster without so much intervention do not deserve a full stocking. And when Geither insists in the same interview that banks loosen credit and provide loans to members of communities that have no interest in ever paying them back, the door is once again open to a new crash with government insisting that those who are not credit-worthy receive loans anyway- just the type of circumstance brought on by allegations of redlining that caused the sure to default loans that started the recession in the first place. Geithner should not have even a coal- a cinder is plenty for him. And what of the responsible citizen who has payed his taxes all along and who has often borne the burden of medical insurance himself, sometimes paying outrageous premiums to insurers of last resort because of pre-existing conditions. We will have nothing left but coals while Obama's core supporters, shiftless dole-dwellers will enjoy a glorious Christmas at our expense- paid for by our hard-earned but all too easily confiscated tax dollars.