Too often we enjoy the com­fort of opin­ion with­out the dis­com­fort of thought — JFK

In a great state­ment my Eli­jah Cum­mings (via BBC) he explains exactly what the recent “bailouts” feel like to the gen­eral pub­lic. It’s funny. He is express­ing the out­rage the Sen­a­tors feel over AIG’s treat­ment of the “free” money they received. The gov­ern­ment, the very peo­ple who put this lame pro­gram in place, are get­ting a taste of their own med­i­cine. In a way I’m glad AIG did this to them. Cause it’s exactly what the gov­ern­ment did to us.

Demo­c­rat Eli­jah Cum­mings was equally incensed: “It’s like, OK, you got to help me screw you. And by the way I’m going to take your money and I’m going to slap you with it.”

In case you haven’t noticed, the econ­omy is really slow­ing down. The BBC says that in Jan­u­ary of 2009 there were only 477,000 new homes built in the US, the fewest in 50 years! At least Feb­ru­ary was better.

In Jan­u­ary, the annual rate to fell to 477,000 homes, the fewest in 50 years…The Jan­u­ary rate was the low­est since the US Com­merce Depart­ment started keep­ing records in 1959.