A Hot Mess

The bigger they come the harder they fall.

 

Case in point – AIG.

 

I’ve read all the articles on why they can’t be allowed to fail and still I say – let the chips (and chumps) fall where they may.

 

If they’re too big then it’s time someone or something cut them down to size.

 

We can play by the rules they made. They chopped up risky mortgages/loans and sold them off to various unsuspecting banks to lessen their personal risk and spread it thinner.

 

When they go under the global landscape will be altered, not just that of the USA since AIG screwed the world with their clothes on. (Anyone check KY stock recently? It should be on the rise!)

 

The ‘manmade’crash will spread out across the world instead of just the US. Let’s let some of these other ‘global’ investors(crooks) absorb some of the shock and a fair share of the responsibility for this mess.  The shock waves from David slaying Goliath will be felt around the world so it shouldn’t feel like we, alone, are doing a balancing act along the San Andreas Fault in stilettos.

 

Then we’ll do what we’ve un-categorically done throughout history – pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and get down to the business of rebuilding…..business. This time at bat let’s make a concentrated effort to learn from our mistake – when I say ‘our’ I really mean ‘their’ – the people who looked the other way while AIG was busy digging us a crater of insolvency!

 

Do you know the difference between a rut and a grave? The depth!!!! When you find yourself in a hole – you should STOP digging. Sounds like common sense, eh? Then why don’t we get the picture? AIG has dug us all into a black hole with their fiscal irresponsibility – why doesn’t anyone have the guts to take the damn shovel away!?!?!?

 

I’d pull the plug on them in a New York minute if the choice were up to me. I have an extremely difficult time mustering up a smidgeon of sympathy for the AIG people behind this hot mess or for those who deregulated, looked the other way, buried their heads in the sand, and generally let one ridiculously overpaid group of greedy grubbers mismanage the crap out of our economy thereby putting countless people in financial purgatory and then handing them MY (and your) tax dollars to ‘retain talented employees’?!?!??!!?!? HUH?

 

 

Since when are greed and gluttony talents? Once upon a time they were but 2 of the 7 deadly sins. These days it seems they’re ‘skills’ to be proudly listed on resumes, bragged about over power lunches, and honed like an heirloom samurai sword.

 

 

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do – is nothing.

(Theodore Roosevelt)

 

 

It’s time we stop doing ‘nothing’ – it’s not working out so well for us. Bemoaning our fate isn’t going to make the necessary changes needed to turn our economy and our country around.

 

 

I could write all night and beat this proverbial dead horse but it’s pointless. There is a timely and succinct quote that sums up the answer to the dilemma we presently face. We should adopt it – posthaste.

 

 

 

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

(Margaret Mead)

 

 

 

 

Be the change you want to see in the world.