Frankly, I didn't really know much about Chambliss before the bailout that put a gun to my head and forced me to invest in the floundering mess that is AIG with some vague promises of "getting me back" someday.
Can't say I wanted to either.
I realize he's a professional politician which puts his soul about 3 rungs down from grave robber or folks who scam little olde ladies out of their pensions... oh, wait! He is in that last group too.
Well, if they could I'm sure they'd want to boot him out of their club if they could.
Hyberpole? Ok, maybe.
Why not decide for yourself?
Here is what this our darling "representative"responded when I told him not to give my money to those con artists in the financial "services" industry (my mods in brackets with italics):
We have been betrayed by many people [to whom I plan to give billions of dollars more, secure in the knowledge we can trust them now for some reason TBD] and by abuse of the system [which I have no intentions of changing since they pay for my yacht ...] The bill that I voted for is not a bailout [oh, wait... yeah it totally is, my bad! ...] this is not a popularity contest [so please shut up, get back on your tractor and let the smart guys get their graft-on ...] My first reaction was one of anger and frustration [realizing I didn't get my kick back on this fraud in advance (you try collecting from these slicksters on the back-end... oh, yeah... you will try! hahahaha I gave your hard earned dough to the worst kind of grafters who are now going to loan it back to your at 24% interest! bwhahahaha! I am pure evil! pay me, biatch!]
Now I admit, the above is somewhat colored by my own perspective on the ridiculous, wrong-headed pompous nonsense Saxby "YAWB" Chambliss had to offer up in exchange for my hard earned cash which he gave to his friends in big bidness.
So, you can read the rest here in it's original form.
The only modification I made was to remove some slight information specific to my secret identity and replace it with what I am reasonably sure was the original name in the template.
Now, I'm not advocating for Martin.
I'm not partisan because I'm not silly enough to believe that big bidness would be dumb enuff to only buy off only half of the politician.
Nor am I naive enuff to think these guys are really trying to help me.
In my experience when someone you don't know is trying to get into your bidness and help you with the contents of your wallet, it is not going to be to put more money in there.
If you follow me... you do, right? I think you do.
I would just like to encourage you at least rattle the bar of the cage a little.
Yeah, the warden isn't going to let us go for banging our collective metal cup on the bars. The guards aren't going to release us for throwing down rolls of toilet paper lit on fire.
But sometimes you have to do what you can to say "Hey! I'll rochambeau you for it!"
So please, do what you can to boot Chambliss out. And when Martin sends me the same letter in a couple of years, let's do the same for that turkey too.
Oh, btw:
However, history warns us against inaction by hard lessons learned. Delaying to act would be a repeat of the mistakes of the 1920s, when thousands of banks failed before significant confidence was restored to our financial markets.
For all the experts, politicians and geniuses who repeat this tired refrain. We have no reason to think that propping up this corrupt financial system with some temporary injection of cash is going to do anything other than make it crash down that much harder when it does crash.
You are not the little dutch boy putting his finger in the dike (I know... in the modern world that sounds really derty!)
Let's just hope 2009 doesn't come to be known as the "Greater Depression."
I'd like to conclude with...
When you are having trouble paying the bills, it's not the right time to invest in the stock market.
When you are concerned about having a job in 6 months, maybe the best use of money is to save up what you can when you can.
When you are uncertain if the bank is going to foreclose one you, don't go buy shares in a failed corporation.
Too bad Chambliss is too damned smart to know that. Or maybe just too rich.
Maybe he should ask Clark Howard what he thinks next time.
Or maybe he could listen to me: keep your hands off my cash your damned, dirty politician!
Here is the deal, I offer to one and all. It is not a new deal: mind your own bidness and I will mind mine ; the administration of the horns is predicated on the molestation the bull.
Oops! Almost forgot! Always leave off with a joke! Unfortunately, the jokes on us, but hey...
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