Shoe’d to Bailout Blues

If anything would make me want to throw a pair of shoes at the President and Congress, it’s the bailout fiasco.  For that, I could throw not just my shoes, but my waning retirement account, my declining home value, you name it.  As disrespectful as that action was, that Iraqi who threw his shoes, will not be put to death, as he probably would have been under the likes of Saddam Hussein, and for that we can be grateful.  What I am not grateful for, is the President and Congress handing out our hard earned tax dollars like its candy, to companies who will not be in business down the pike, like the auto industry.  When you give money to companies whose business model does not make money, given their current payroll and other expenses, you may as well flush it down the toilet.  But hey, why not do something novel and give it to us, the hard working Americans in the form of tax credits so we can go out and get this stifled economy moving again.  The Fed can’t cut rates much lower and the shoe, to phrase a pun,  has dropped not only on the war, but on the bailouts, which have turned this Christmas from black to BLUE.