President Barack Obama is number one! Number one biggest spender in world history!

Barack Obama!  Biggest Spender In History!

Imelda Marcos
Bravo!  Bravo! 

Juan Domingo Perón
 Les saludamos, señor Presidente!

Update:  Protein Wisdom has more!

Rush Limbaugh is right about Margin Call

I heard about this movie on Rush Limbaugh back in December and got around to getting it on Netflix. It is a very well made movie (the writing, directing, and the acting).  An all star cast.  It reminded me of Glengarry Glen Ross, but the acting in Margin Call is more subtle (Glengarry as a film retained a theatrical stage feel to it)--even though this is a financial thriller with far greater stakes.  Margin Call did get an Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay--and it deserves it.  Staring Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Stanley Tucci, Jeremy Irons, Demi Moore, and Zachary Quinto.  I can see why Rush watched this film three times. This is one I might keep an extra day to watch again.  Official site.  NY Times review.  

Working hard and feeling you just cannot get ahead...Suckas!

If we didn't laugh, we would cry...

If Mark Steyn's news left me depressed yesterday, Tyler Durden and Vodka Pundit are goading me to go out and pelt an Occupy Camp with rotten eggs and fish heads:  Yes it is confirmed, with all the government assistance you will have more disposable income working one week a month on minimum wage and collecting the available benefits than working for a $60,000 a year salary in a full time stressful job.  So it is not just fat cat corporations getting government bailouts.  

Not surprisingly, it is not only the richest and most audacious thieves that prosper - it is also the penny scammers at the very bottom of the economic ladder that rip off the middle class each and every day, courtesy of the world's most generous entitlement system...

We have been writing for over a year, how the very top of America's social order steals from the middle class each and every day. Now we finally know that the very bottom of the entitlement food chain also makes out like a bandit compared to that idiot American who actually works and pays their taxes. One can only also hope that in addition to seeing their disposable income be eaten away by a kleptocratic entitlement state, that the disappearing middle class is also selling off its weaponry. Because if it isn't, and if it finally decides it has had enough, the outcome will not be surprising at all: it will be the same old that has occurred in virtually every revolution in the history of the world to date.

We are also subsidizing the protest class with this nonsense. 
Update:  

• Crack Emcee has some cultural links (watch the video commentary on the decline of America from a left perspective--obviously I do not agree with everything he is saying) that seems to fit very well with this... 
• What are beliefs doing to change reality?
• Is this the future?:  How the Greeks are getting by...

Wall Street Repo Men

This sort of works...

Great article at NRO.


There is also a lesson in this tale from Instapundit.  Ben Nelson is not an evil man, but he was corrupted by this system.  And this corruption is in both parties.  There are still people who actually care about this country and do not want this corruption to continue.  Be it from Paulson and his Goldman Sach cronies working for Bush or Summer, Geithner, and Rubin and their Goldman Sach cronies working for Clinton and Obama.  And you don't think they are trying to back stop their positions with Romney if Obama goes down?  This insider corruption has to stop.

And it is frustrating that the one politician who gets it, is also completely nuts on most other issues and is unelectable.

Update:  But let's not forget who turbo charged the current depression we are in.

Update II:  Ace of Spades on the story...

Update III:  Hugh Hewitt does not like this article (what a surprise).