Standing with a cooler than kool poise before the microphones yesterday, Obama delivers a dagger to the American taxpayer.

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Standing with a cooler than cool poise before the microphones yesterday, Obama delivers a dagger to the American taxpayer.

Banks bailout will continue.  Obama will continue to reward the bad behavior of the bad boys in the American banking system and finance world by handing over, no sweat to the bad boys, the hard earned--sweat off our brows, tax payers’ money to them.

Obama excuses his extending our hard earned American’s taxpayers dollars to the bad boys, by saying that, his preference to continue with the Summers and Geithner policies that got us to the place where we are today,  ... are "driven by a larger vision of America’s future…”

With one swoop felt, Obama serves us a plate full of his economic vision for the future, where he sees, “ … a future where sustained economic growth creates good jobs and rising incomes, a future where prosperity is fueled not by excessive debt, reckless speculation and fleeing profit, …”    and with that, he gives Timothy Geithner and Larry Summers a free hand to continue with their in-your-face arguments and their twisted policies that got us to the unhappy place we are in today regarding their need for bank bailouts.

But, excuse me a minute here.  I am no economist. I admit that. But, isn’t Obama’s belief in an equation of, sustained economic growth as the seed for job creation, a bit twisted here?  I mean, aren’t jobs, and the people with money in their pockets because they earned, through those jobs the money with which they can afford to buy and pay for those things they bought, ... isn’t that the thing that creates job?  Isn’t that the right twist to any equation of sustained economic growth?

So, the banks, the friends of Geithner and Summers et al, can continue doing the same thing they were doing during the Bush administration. There are no serious consequences to the banks for their bad behavior because, hey, they can continue in business, because our hard earned tax dollars will keep them afloat.

There are also, no consequences for either Geithner or Summers for their incompetence and their bold face stealing money from the American taxpayer to rescue  err, bail out, these bad behaving banks (their friends) … because, hey, they still have a job and one which, guess what, you and I, and every taxpayer pays them for, even when, if we had our druthers they would not have a job nor the license to continue with their bold face lies and their stealing of our money.

Obama goes on to give Americans stern warning, saying that, “the severity of this recession will cause more job loss, more foreclosures, and more pain before,  before anyone of us can expect to see the wondrous workings of the Summers/Geithner economy fix, or of the, “sustained economic growth and … prosperity” envisioned and, promised by Obama if, if,  … if we just hold on tight, go without food, go without jobs, go without shelter just so that we can bail out, with our real, concrete, hard earned tax dollars, those gosh-darned banks which created funky money out of thin air and which Summers and Geithner are all ga-ga for.

Logic fails me.

Logic also fails to explain to me how a dollar in a bank that sucks dollars out of the American pocket is going to create eight times more dollars in main street America (when what they are all about is sucking dollars out of the American pocket), especially when I heard nothing about how those jobs which have been offshored by our greedy corporate heads, are going to find their way back in to American soil and the hands, hearts, sweat and pockets of the American worker.

Logic fails to explain to me how the American worker is going to go out and spend dollars in main street America when he or she has no dollars going into his or her pocket. Obama talks about banks starting the loan process, and how the lending process keeps the economy afloat, but how can a worker who has no job ask for a loan that he cannot pay for?

Logic Fails Me!

Obama sees a future … “built by skilled, productive workers, and by sound investments, that will spread opportunity at home…”

Logic fails to explain to me how this future built on the labor of skilled productive workers is going to be built, when our skilled jobs have all been offshored and the jobs that remain are all service jobs where people hardly get paid minimum wages, are grateful to anyone who gives them a tip with which to increase any meager income, put food on their tables and pay for their incredibly high rents, or incredibly high mortgages.

How are we going to build a sound economy when, even many of those service jobs, are now being lost because Americans are not going out to eat as much, they are not tipping as much, they are not going to the beauty parlor or barber shops as often anymore.

Perhaps our trio of Magic Leaders, Obama, Geithner and Summers need to take a reality-check trip in and around any of our cities. The number of empty storefronts all along America keeps growing by the day and tent cities, keep going up in the back of those, now very empty, store fronts everyday. 

Just how are we going to get us back to a sound economy when the madness of the policies that got us where we are continue to remain afloat.

It is not on the soundness of the banks and their investments made with real money that Obama wants to build our future. 

No. The real money going to the banks is not coming out of their sound investments. It is coming out of our pockets where we keep our real concrete, hard earned, dollars.  It is coming off of he sweat of our brows.

The banks will have greater recourse to real money assets when Obama and the Democrats in congress further cut into the American tax-payer pockets by reducing those entitlements which have provided a security blanket for the countless Americans who have and still do rely on entitlements such as Medicare, Social Security Retirement Funds, Disability Insurance, WIC programs, and so on.

If you are sick and old--America has forgotten all about you.  If you are young, poor and need milk for your children, America has forgotten all about you.  If you are crossing the threshold from gainfully employed to retired citizen … I hope you had a good job which paid lots of tax money into your social security fund so that you may enjoy a comfortable retirement.  Your children and grandchildren will not be able to do the same if Obama and the Democratic congress get to play footsy with our Social Security Entitlement.  If you are young, have recently worked, and are now collecting unemployment benefits… I hope that your salary was high enough, and that you and your employers paid enough into that part of our American security benefits, so that you may be able to keep up with all of the expenses your life demands… and, I hope that by the time your benefits end, some offshored job will have found its way back to American soil so that you may find gainful employment  and become self-sufficient again.

In the meantime, Obama, inexplicably to me, continues to sell his vision for America projecting, into the whole tapestry of our wrecked American lives, (without first taking the real steps, the real hard measures needed to fix our economy)  a whole new Army of Engineers and other college trained professionals who will apparently, find money created out of thin air to pay for their college tuitions, books and lodging, after which there will be jobs galore waiting for them. 

It is no highly kept secret that college funding continues to drop in the midst of all this free ride the Geithner, Summers, Obama bailouts is giving to banks, while by-passing education, healthcare, public works and so on. 

It is also no highly kept secret that colleges continue to raise their tuition to make up for the difference in their funding shortfall while the pocket of the American worker who could afford a college education keeps shrinking; it is no secret that colleges continue to cut their professorial and other staff, as well as choices in curriculum and other areas, as a means to cut cost.

Bush lived in a bubble.

Obama lives in a fantasy land and Congress is going along for the ride.

Authors Bio:
E.T.SIMON ... Keeping the Bio Real and Transparent ...
E. T. SIMON is more often like a transplanted palm tree from the land of Santiago de Cuba where she was born to a Cuban, Tulane University, lawyer educated father and, a Mississippi, mother, great-granddaughter of American Revolutionary War hero, Brigadier General Andrew Pickens who is credited with the victory against the British in the Battle of the Cowpens. Although at times, E.T. Simon is more like, the fruit of the pecan of her Mississippi grandparents pecan farm of long ago, or even like the Sycamore so firmly rooted in the Florida Peninsula. As such, the daughter of bi-cultural, bi-lingual parents, E.T. Simon navigated the bi-cultural ties, bi-lingual shores of her birth, while learning to appreciate Cuban and Southern cuisine and cultures, from a very early age.

At the age of 15, two years after her mother's death, she dreamt about running away from her home to join the , "Bohemians" of the 1950s in New York's Greenwich Village and become a writer. She did not. In 1961, at the age of 18 her father sent her across the pond to her mother's family in Mississippi in an effort to keep her from falling prey to Fidel Castro's repressive agents who were on her trail for her opposition to Fidel Castro.
Bumpy rides, or not, In 1976, E.T. Simon, after twelve years of part time studies, with in-between times-off for parenting, obtained her B.A. in English with a Major in Literature and a double minor in Psychology and Philosophy. In 1985 she obtained her Master's Degree in Counseling and in 1987 her License in Marriage and Family Therapy.
Her quest to pursue a MFA in Creative Writing was derailed when a stuffed shirt Chaucer Literature Professor graded her paper on The Prioress Tale short of the A she needed to establish her credentials in the MFA Creative Writing Program, even while receiving the support of the Academic Dean who told her with a certain urgency, "don't stop writing. You'll find a way."
Prior to pursuing her graduate studies in counseling, Ms. E.T. Simon joined a Creative Writing Group where she honed in on some of the art and craft of writing and had the pleasure of attending poetry readings by Tess Gallagher, Denise Levertov, Rutabaga Rose and others.
Following her 1985 graduation, Ms. E.T. Simon proceeded to work as a counselor/family therapist until 1998 when, following surgery, she became a near recluse and has remained a near recluse for the last twelve years or so.
It was during those years that she worked as a counselor/family therapist that Ms. E.T. Simon learned that grief is a powerful agent which often contributes to the derailing of families; that human hearts can bury grief for generations and generations with the grief popping up unexpectedly as a symptom anywhere, sometimes even in someone else further along in the generations.
Ms. E.T. Simon also learned that when careful unearthing of buried grief happens and a person is enabled to truly grieve the pain of a loss they have been holding on to for years, then rebalancing of the derailment takes place and true healing occurs.

Writing is a lifelong love of E.T. Simon's, and whether she kept her writings buried in dusty drawers, or shared them with university professors, writers' groups, editors, or published them, the writer's flame burns undying in her. The flame of truth also burns in her along with the need to stand up for the underdog, of which, today, she finds herself to be one. This blended well in her throughout her years of computer activism for peace and social justice.

E.T. Simon's articles have been published under the name of TERESA SIMON-NOBLE, the pen name of ELENA DUMAS; and at times, under the additional pen name of SKYAGUNSTA, or SKYAGUNSTA PICKENS, both of which are a direct reference to her great-great-grandfather Brigadier General Andrew Pickens who was named "Skyagunsta," by Native Americans who came to appreciate him as a man of conscience. Please also know that whether the articles have been signed with one name, or another; with a pen name, or another, the writings have always come straight from my heart, my perception, and my core values.
In other words, it has always been me, and only me, writing the articles.