There is Meaning Behind Those Words

Last night, in hearing the replay of Obama saying, "We have to approach this with a "sense of responsiblity" for the thousandth time, the meaning cuffed me upside the head in such a way as to warrant whiplash.

He never said he would act with responsibility, only that he would approach with a sense of responsibility! Oh! I get it now! I might "sense" a bad smell, but it doesn't mean I will choose (or in this instance be able) to escape from that bad smell! A sense doesn't cause action, it only warns of the need to take action, but can be ignored. Much like the eyes seeing a grusome accident on the side of the road, our eyes tell our brain "Ooh, gory stuff, don't look" and we then choose to gawk anyway and are rewarded with nightmares for our disobedience to our senses. Much like we are being rewarded now with President Obama's sense.

As a result of this massive lightening bolt that hit me last night, I have developed a new sense which spikes my fuzzy meaning meter.

Here, in the following droll interview of Couric with Geithner, we hear another one of those statements as Geithner speaks about the fact that the beatings will continue until morale improves. Listen closely to his diatribe and I will tell you afterwards what you might have missed. It will help you develop your fuzzy meter sense as well.



Okay. Are you ready for the fuzzy meter spike? (Note: The fuzzy meter is besides the obviously self-serving statements of "new commitments" and "strongest *cough* standards of transparency" in the 9.6 trillion committed in the last two months/two weeks time.) When speaking about the "attacks" on his ability, at exactly the 2:32 minutes mark, Geither said, 'When I took this job I knew I would face enormous challenges'....."for the enormous damage caused by the people who took too much risk...".

To which "people" do you suppose Geithner was referring? My newly developed sense says it was we the people who bought the homes at the peak of the market with ACORN forced bad loaning policies are those to which he refers. To hear Geithner say it, it was decidedly not the unregulated, naked short selling, no uptick rule, mark to market accounting ruled, international obscenely diabolical set (who repackaged mortgages, sold insurance in the form of CDS's that were not regulated as insurances and who resold them again and again) crooks until there was no more market able to bear the risk.

See, we didn't sell our mortgages, they did. We didn't keep driving up the price of oil in shorting activities so we could pocket loads of money from every American, they did, grabbing two or three hundred bucks of cash flow out of the pockets of Americans every single month. The question to ask is who got the money then and who is getting the bailouts now?