Surprise! I'm not surprised.

OK, OK, OK, I get it! I should be mad as hell about some fat cats getting fatter via government bailout money. That makes sense. A failed business takes money from the government making Joe the taxpayer a share holder in a failed enterprise he has no desire being involved with. By the way Tim, Charlie, Tom et. al. you cannot be mad. You cheated and didn’t pay your taxes. So you cannot possibly be mad about where “your” taxes went.

Then said failed company takes said taxpayer money and pays $146,000 in bonuses to the exact same dopes who caused the company to fail in the first place. That has to make you madder than a midget trying to work a yoyo. It doesn’t.

This whole mess was entirely predictable. I read as much of the bailout and stimulus bills as anyone in congress – which is exactly 0 pages. As we used to say at the U.S. Army Staff College, the reading is only a problem if you do it.

So, none of the dopes we hired to run the country had the brains, time or curiosity to read the two bills consisting of 800 plus pages each of rules and regulations that are leading us to ruin. Wonderful.

If I knew these things were evil, chock full of pork, waste, fraud and unintended consequences, why shouldn’t the geniuses who do this for a living have been able to figure it out? I’m not surprised. So, I’m not mad. Apparently the weasels on Capitol Hill feigning outrage over the circumstance that they put into place have a much better opinion of themselves than the 12% approval rating the rest of us give them.

Two bills combined consisting of over 1,600 pages to give away money to people who shouldn’t be getting it in the first place. So lemme see, the US constitution has, until January this year, served as a road map for running the richest, most talented and powerful country in the history of the world for over two hundred years. Depending on how you set the margins and what size font you use, the original of that document runs between 11 and 12 pages.

So 11 or 12 pages to run an entire country for 200 years.

1,600 pages to hand out taxpayer money that will ruin the country.

You knew they were going to screw it up.

I knew they were going to screw it up.

Even they – well especially they – knew they were going to screw it up.

Now everyone, but Lex, is upset that they screwed it up.

And remember this. We’re going to give $900 million to Hamas terrorist. They’ll use the money to lob rockets into Israel. Congress will be shocked! Then we’ll give 100s of millions in military aide to Israel to fight the terrorists using our money to terrorize Israel. Congress ought to be able to get that bit idiocy done in less than 500 pages. But still, no one will read the bill.

No, I’m not mad. I don’t get mad when the sun rises in the east or the cat 5 hurricane I’ve been watching zero in on my city for five days finally hits and washes away the levies or when dopes act like dopes.