Thursday, December 03, 2009
What a goddamned fucking asshole
What a fucking piece of shit turd-eating motherfucker.
And he admits it without shame.
I'm talking about Ben Bernanke, who has without irony aligned himself with legendary criminals like Willie Sutton.
But am I not also talking about the entire establishment that embraces this murderous shit? - the establishment that is led by that paragon of discipline and achievement of success, Barack Obama? After all it's Obama who keeps on bringing Pete Peterson into the various "summits" on Social Security -- Pete Peterson, the genocidal maniac whose goal it is to destroy Social Security.
See HuffPost on Bernanke's spraying of shit all over Congress today:
Fuck these assholes. (And by the way, this shit strikes me as more utterly craven and shit-wallowing and -shoveling than the Afghanistan decision -- perhaps only because I haven't had the stomach to follow the Afghanistan shit, but probably also because the Iraq policy in the last 2 years hasn't seemed like the worst thing in the world, given the horror that had already been unleashed.)
posted by speakingcorpse : 12/03/2009 08:13:00 PM
And he admits it without shame.
I'm talking about Ben Bernanke, who has without irony aligned himself with legendary criminals like Willie Sutton.
But am I not also talking about the entire establishment that embraces this murderous shit? - the establishment that is led by that paragon of discipline and achievement of success, Barack Obama? After all it's Obama who keeps on bringing Pete Peterson into the various "summits" on Social Security -- Pete Peterson, the genocidal maniac whose goal it is to destroy Social Security.
See HuffPost on Bernanke's spraying of shit all over Congress today:
Ben Bernanke has overseen the greatest expansion of the Federal Reserve's balance sheet in its history, pouring trillions of dollars into Wall Street firms at roughly zero interest rates.
His generosity, however, has a limit.
In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee today, where he's seeking re-appointment as the Fed's chairman, Bernanke called for cutbacks in Medicare and Social Security even as unemployment rises and the middle class is endangered.
Citing legendary bank robber Willie Sutton, Bernanke said of the retirement and health care funds that are the legacy of the New Deal: "That's where the money is."
Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah) sympathized with Bernanke, saying that, because of entitlement spending, "you're going to be looking at a situation where the Congress will be unable to provide any kind of fiscal discipline because of the mandatory spending. That puts an enormous burden on your plate."
"Well, Senator, I was about to address entitlements," Bernanke replied. "I think you can't tackle the problem in the medium term without doing something about getting entitlements under control and reducing the costs, particularly of health care."
Bernanke reminded Congress that it has the power to repeal Social Security and Medicare.
"It's only mandatory until Congress says it's not mandatory. And we have no option but to address those costs at some point or else we will have an unsustainable situation," said Bernanke.
Fuck these assholes. (And by the way, this shit strikes me as more utterly craven and shit-wallowing and -shoveling than the Afghanistan decision -- perhaps only because I haven't had the stomach to follow the Afghanistan shit, but probably also because the Iraq policy in the last 2 years hasn't seemed like the worst thing in the world, given the horror that had already been unleashed.)
posted by speakingcorpse : 12/03/2009 08:13:00 PM
