Amazing How Refreshing The Lifting Of Consequences Can Be

Stocks soar on the news that stocks are no longer allowed to do anything in the short-term but soar.

In other news, Wall Street executives raced to fill a shortage of dollars they could use to light their cigars.

Would it kill everyone to offer a scrap to those who aren't invested in the market but have to suffer the consequences of this? Can the Wise Men who rule us see beyond those who wear suits for a living for two seconds?

Bradrocket:

It’s times like these where I start getting pitchfork-and-torches angry. Make no mistake, this bailout plan will have a massive opportunity cost. National health care just became that much more difficult because we’re going to be spending $1 trillion to bail out a bunch of irresponsible Wall Street assholes. The sheer amount of shit that the American taxpayer is about to devour cannot be calculated. Our choice boil down to:

• Borrowing a crapload more money from the Chinese and adding God knows how much to our national debt.

• Paying significantly higher taxes and getting precisely nothing in return except for the knowledge that rich people won’t feel bad about themselves.

It’s time to bring back the pillory stocks, my friends. I want Bush, Paulson, Cox, Bernanke and the heads of AIG, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Fannie and Freddie locked up for years on end so that we may hurl vegetables and feces at them to our hearts’ content. Because hey, if we’re going to be sacrificing our Social Security and our health insurance to save the Wizards of Wall Street, we might as well get *something* out of the deal.

Just another day in the corporatocracy.