I think I found the problem...

So, I go into a bank today to get some change for the store where I work. I ask the teller for $150 in $10 bills.

She counts them out: " 60, 70, 80, 100, 110, 120, 130, 140, 150."

I think, maybe she counted 2 at once...so I recount the money. Sure enough, I'm $10 short.

I point this out to her, and she says, " Oh, I am sorry, I am SO bad with tens."

She works in a bank. She is bad with "tens". What, they are heavier than ones? Does she get hypnotized by the zero?

What the hell has happened to this country when a BANK TELLER HAS TROUBLE WITH TENS??!?!?

I'm thinking that's what got the country's economy so messed up. We have banking types who have trouble with 10's, with 1,000's, with freaking BILLIONS....

And am I the only one who is thinking, hmmm...did they do this on purpose so they could totally bankrupt the US government, basically to make it, in the memorable words of Neo-conservative Grover Nordquist, "small enough to drown in the bathtub."? It is, after all, the Republican Party's wet dream to totally hobble the Federal Goverment. And by giving one man, ONE MAN, the ability to write $700 billion in TAXPAYERS MONEY with absolutely no repercussions if he uses it to, say, buy back Sarah Palin's state airplane, or invest heavily in hookers and cocaine, or buy Lithuania for the hell of it. He can do so with no possibility of oversight, accountability, or even civil or criminal penalties. He can do WHATEVER THE HELL HE WANTS TO with taxpayer dollars that our GRANDCHILDREN will have to pay. And guess what? It's going to be a loan...so who gets the interest on $700 billion? BANKS!!!!!!! The ones who lobbied for the deregulation that got us into this mess.

Oh yeah, and it's the Chinese who will buy up all the paper. Smooth. And if they decide to call in the loans..we're toast.

Without them ever having to fire a shot.

AAAAARRRRGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Thank you, Phil Gramm. Thank you, John McCain. Thank you, Susan Collins. Thank you, George W. Bush.

Could somebody analyze the Bush DNA and find out what it is that causes enormous government bailouts of incompetent bankers at taxpayers' expense? In Poppy's administration it was the Savings and Loan scandal. Piffle, Dad, says W. That was a paltry $85 billion or so. This Bush is going to screw the American Taxpayers to the tune of $700 billion.

If this were any other country in the world, there would be rioting in the streets.