Chrysler's Capitalist Pansies?
Laugh out loud funny post here about the current Sunday-night silliness emanating from certain over-heated quarters over whether the government was or was not mean to investors who didn't want to play along on the Chrysler bankruptcy. Read the whole thing, but the mix of Loony Tunes allusions, debunking, and general skepticism is good fun:
The multifarious sources of the [Chrysler] crash have long been evident to any sentient being with a pulse. In addition, the looming bankruptcy itself has been unfolding for so many months it resembles the slow motion pile-up in Talladega Nights, which takes so long the TV announcers break to a commercial in the middle of it. A bloggist less honest than myself might claim he saw the wheels coming off the LeBaron almost two years ago. Fortunately, your Dedicated Correspondent is above such petty credit-jumping.
But now that the patient has been wheeled into the operating theater, where a bankruptcy judge will soon commence the drawn-out and delicate procedure of reconstituting Chrysler into a viable new company which will magically produce vehicles irresistible to all those consumers previously inured to their temptations, I have begun to take notice of a certain strain of commentary which I feel compelled to address.
This commentary seems to issue primarily from Chrysler's secured creditors and their supporters, apologists, and fellow travelers. I believe one can fairly characterize the essence of this commentary as
"Waaah! The Government is Picking on Me!"
To be perfectly honest, I find this intensely amusing.
...Perhaps some financiers feel a little miffed now that they have to fight for what they think is their due, after having had the field to themselves for so long.
Here's a clue for the novices in the room: It's called politics, you fucking morons. Stop being such a bunch of whiny pansies.
It gets even better, so, as I said, read the whole thing.