Karen, you’re just not up-to-date on the Newthink terminology. When the bailout proponents keep speaking of it as a “taxpayer investment,” they are quite correct, except it is not an investment FOR the taxpayers, but an investment OF them. The taxpayers are but resources to be exploited for the benefit of the corporate-state owners. After all, haven’t we already learned to think of ourselves as “resources” (e.g., “human resource management” at work, “human resource development” in schools, etc.)? We have turned ourselves into sheep to be shorn, or cattle to be led to the slaughter. We have even learned to lick the hands of the butcher to thank him for the humane death awaiting us!
If this bailout scam is truly an investment on my part, where are the certificates evidencing my ownership interest? When will I – not the Treasury Department – begin receiving dividends? And to what market may I take my hypothetical “shares” to sell to the millions of shrewd investors eager to own them?
Your concluding line says it all!
