After the markets had a huge sell-off on Monday, Anderson Cooper said that the parties should work together and stop pointing fingers at each other. That’s lame. If you can’t just point fingers and blame the other side, what’s the point of going into politics anyway? Just to get free money and benefits for life, even if you’ve committed felonies and are rotting away in prison after betraying the country’s trust? Okay, so that’s a good reason, I guess. But it’s nothing compared to getting to blame everybody else for your own screw-ups!
Think about it: Can you get away with just pointing fingers and blaming other people in any other career, and get away with it? If you’re prosecuting a murderer, can you just blame the defense when they get away with it? If you’re a surgeon, and your patient dies on the operating table, can you just point at the nurse and blame her? What if you’re a teacher and all your students flunk out? Can you blame them all and escape all responsibility yourself?
Actually, that last one was a trick question, as teachers never get fired for anything, since they have a union with a stranglehold over the education system. But they wouldn’t bother blaming anyone else for their failures, since it’s so much easier just to cheat for the students anyway, as we’ve seen in the news lately. And that’s fine if you’re a student! I’m just bitter because they never did that for me; I had to listen in class, and I’ll never get over it!
Oh, but back to this idea of working together. I thought Anderson Cooper was an experienced news reporter. He should know that you’re only allowed to do stuff when you control enough of the government, and that means doing stuff you always wanted to, regardless of what kind of negative effect it might have on the country. You know, like starting a pointless war in Iraq. Or passing a giant new entitlement program most people didn’t want in the middle of the biggest economic and debt crisis since World War II. So if you want things to change, you just have to wait; and hope the party you agree with wins: because if you pick the wrong one, we’re never going to get out of this economic morass; and that’s the truth! So flip a coin, and hope you’re right.
So, do you feel lucky, punk? Well, do ya’?
