Friday, March 20, 2009

AIG...Postscript

OK...we are all angry. It has been a good week to raise our voices, proclaim our disgust and make suggestions that go beyond recoup and verge on revenge.

There. Do you feel better now?

Will anything we, the President or the Congress does to recover these funds help the economy recover, establish one new job, save our monetary system, send stocks soaring?

No? Well then, how about moving on the the real stuff. It is not that the anger wasn't deserved. It was. It's not that the perpetrators of this shameful episode shouldn't know what the public thinks. They should. And it is not even that appropriate, considered steps shouldn't be taken in response (Note that response may or may not include recovery.) They should.

But we have bigger fish to fry. Anger over the economy channeled at a convenient, but incorrect target won't get a job, a home, a family or a life back. Instead it will be a distraction working to slow or prevent true recovery. Or to hide the real dilemmas and the real culprits.

Get real. Move on.

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