free market malarkey

The Alberton Papers Vol. VII, #VIII
By Dick Darne 11-16-08
"Professor Sven, before we start, I have a question for you. Surely these five people are not solely to blame for the whole mess, are they?" asked one of the newcomers who had just discovered the think tank.
"Ah wunnerful, wunnerful, I am more encouraged each day with the development of questions instead of blind acceptance of the situation. Of course it is not so simple as to just pick a few, assign blame and move on. This is just a starting point. We can move backwards in history and forward too, as we shall see. Anyone care to venture into the roots of the problem?" answered the Professor. "How about you, Bill, you’ve been around awhile?"
"Well, as far as my memory goes, it started with Reagan and his ‘mantra’; government is the problem, get government out of the way, let the free market work it’s magic, it’ll all trickle down and the rest of his, as my grandfather used to say; ‘harkey-malarkey’. I don’t even bother with an umbrella anymore." answered Bill.
"We’ve had other periods in our history where the ‘free market malarkey’ almost did us in; at least twice the system had to be saved from itself."added Todd.
"And both of those times it was a Roosevelt who did it." said Johnny.
"Good for you, Johnny, I see you’ve been reading your history," said the Good Professor, "but it’s been with us from the start, larceny was thoroughly imbedded in the souls of more than a few of our founding fathers. I think Gno may be able to offer some insight into these matters."
Gno walked slowly to the front, turned around, cleared his throat and surprisingly, for one predisposed to rant, began calmly and slowly: "The art of National Theft Treasury goes back to the founding Fathers. First introduced by Alexander Hamilton, theft of the National Treasure has become a high art and is not questioned by that simpering, smarmy mob of effete imperialist sympathizing swine called congress because they too are of the "investment class" and make a share of the money."
One could hear a pin drop at this point.Gno began again: "But I don't think the treasury has ever been so successfully looted as we've just seen during the Bush years. Remember the S&L bailout? That was a robbery on a national level, but it was dwarfed by the job the reactionary right just completed.And what is so amazing is that the follow-up level of theft, called ‘sweeping out the corners’, is going on even as King George the Bush is ushered out of the office in disgrace.Nope. If that man and his administration are not retroactively impeached or held accountable for their crimes, then the new administration is concurring in the theft and the laws spun by the treasury-devouring spider will remain and be much harder to reverse ... thereby paving the way for future thefts of the money of The People."
"Very good. But there’s more to ponder," said Professor Sven. "How do we keep getting ourselves in these ‘pickles’? We’ll explore that next week, that will be your homework assignment. And a one and a two and away we go, until next week!"
Will Diogenes ever find someone to hold his lamp? Is the price of liberty eternal vigilance? Shouldn’t one be miserable if he doesn’t like what he sees in the mirror? dd