Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Now this is dumb...

Obama Weighs Fee to Recoup Bank Bailout and Cut Deficit

Why doesn't he just institute a new tax for the U.S. population? Any fee that's assessed against the greedy financial institutions will just be passed on to their customers, and likely with an added fee for 'administration'. They'll end up paying it anyway. So they'll have paid for it twice - once at the bailout and again now. It's tough being a taxpayer...


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