I'm more filled with hate and contempt every day (special economics issue!)

So, apparently as of just last week we are in deep economic shit.

Never mind that every governmental and financial institution nitwit that's been put in front of a camera, microphone or stenographer-slash-journalist the last three years has been assuring us that nope, no looming recession, nothing to worry about with this economy, no sirreebob, just more solid growth for us!

Never mind the facts that ---

A. our investment banks are losing billions because people took out home loans based on income numbers which they pulled from the LOTTO ticket they bought that morning.
B. that foreigners take dollar bills from us and apply them directly to their dirty assholes now, without bothering to stick them in the cash tills because frankly it's not worth the effort these days.
C. that our government spends trillion more than it collects and borrows the difference from a country we periodically lecture and demonize about human rights.
D. That we spend billions of that on weapons and illegal war which in turn result not in further economic growth for our nation but big explosions and increased hatred directed at ourselves.
E. That we as a nation buy way, way more shit from abroad, especially flammable black goo, than other people buy from us. Not least because we (or rather our corporate decisionmakers) have been systematically dismantling our manufacturing plants and shipping them abroad to countries where they won't be bothered with pesky unions, environmental regulations or people who want to earn more than $3 an hour.
F. That we, as individual dipshits, spend more money than we make so we have credit card balances as big or bigger than our savings accounts.

--- these nitwits said, and that message was dutifully passed on to the passive consumers of America.

Only now apparently, we're allowed, no, commanded to start worrying about the economy because it's apparently on a waterslide, greased with melted pigfat, leading straight to a bubbling cauldron of liquified bat guano.

And the only thing that can save us is, according George W. Bush and his dancing monkey Ben Bernanke, tax cuts for businesses, plus $600 cash in hand for everyone to go on out and spend, spend, spend.

But hey! Is giving everyone $600 going to fix A through F? No, it's not. In fact, it's going to make some of those things worse. We'll go further into governmental debt, for one thing, as we both forgo tax income and start handing out those sweet $600 checks.

But who's saying that? Who's calling bullshit on this whole charade? Who's saying "You know what, Georgie? You can keep that $600 bones. Spend it on creating an alternative energy source that would help us avoid both trade deficits and future resource wars, homey. Or enforcing financial regulations that will prevent future greed-and-lie-fuelled market meltdowns. Put it into training people to become employable in the new economy. Buy all our soldiers in Iraq an airline ticket home, business class."

Nobody. Only the fbomber. And who cares what that grumpy fucker says anyway?