We, the taxpayers are the payors of last resort, and there’s no risk, civilly or criminally for the thieves, jackals and vultures who will pick over the last of the bones of the Middle Class at the end of the next crisis when the whole world is thrown back to feudalism and we are the serfs!

I won’t believe a word any of these guys says until they start locking them up, wholesale! What this country needs is a couple of hundred highly visible Wall Street perp walks to get the economy back on the right track.

It seems that the Chinese are acting as though peak oil were here or something. From the article:

Indeed, the Chinese are treating the energy technology competition if it were an arms race. China is spending as much or more on greentech as it does on its military, hundreds of billions of dollars annually on renewable energy and grid infrastructure improvements. Those investments, if not vigorously countered, will effectively erode America’s greentech industry leadership and secure China’s dominance. China’s economic stimulus package, targeted 38% of spending on greentech, as compared to a miserly 12% of the U.S. stimulus program. By 2013, greentech will account for 15 percent of the Chinese GDP. While the United States is projected to roughly triple its wind generation by 2020, China will increase its capacity twelvefold to a wind generating capability more than twice that of America’s. And, while the United States is projected to increase its installed solar generation a modest 33% by 2020, China’s solar generation is projected to increase 20,000%.

This green spending is concurrent with their ongoing efforts to lock up remaining supplies of oil, as I briefly mentioned here. See also this article on Chinese oil buying.

I’ve often thought it would be fun to get an amendment to repeal or suspend an obscure law of physics, such as the chandrasekhar limit, and see how many people take it seriously.

Palin says the McCain people didn’t let her have her say. The media just did “gotcha” moments on Palin.

Palin quits being governor two years early because of conservative allegations of her being “corrupt.” Just after Palin pays back Alaska for bilking the state for travel for her kids and for staying at home in Wasilla when her office in Anchorage was some 20 minutes away (yes, I’ve been to Wasilla, and to Anchorage!).

“Get over it” is no independent but a card carrying Palin person.

And Palin is a whiner and a quitter!

Please GOP nominate Palin, the whiner and quitter, for president in 2012!!!!

Parts of it also address the outright fraud by insurance companies and various medical suppliers. In the past, the penalties were often far less than the additional profits from the fraudulent activities. The will mean no more $10 aspirins