[Marxism] "this sucker could go down" Bush

[bauerly at yorku.ca]

With his characteristic philosophical style President Bush mused that "If money
isn't loosened up, this sucker could go down," Bush on Thursday in a bipartisan
[sic] meeting at the Whitehouse.  But just what exactly is this 'sucker' that is
going down, and what is down, with out 'loosened' money?  Is the $700 Billion
dollar proposed bail out reducible to a tight of monetary grease for the
sticking financial wheels?

Here is a scenario- It's September, there has been a national tragedy and the
people are everywhere terrorized at the fear of what is to come.  The President
sends his minions to the congress to command that they do something, quickly. 
The congress responds by passing a bill that has major ramifications for the US
polity and will end up costing the US taxpayers billions if not trillions of
dollars.  Am I describing 2008, 2003 or 2001?  Just who are these terrorists-
Bin Laden, Hussein, bankers?  Does it matter?  The effect is the same.  Hit
them, scare them with a threat of more, and take from them.

The temporal tightness is the real problem, not the monetary tightness.  Given
the proper amount of time (which we would have had if the cops on the beat
hadn't turned the other way with their hand held out behind them as the
criminals continued to fleece the system)a truly great and radical alternative
could have emerged.  But alas, I fear it will not and not because the US polity
is utterly reactionary and conservative but because it was timed just so that
there would not be time for democracy to intervene in the 'market'.

Brad