After Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) discusses the bailout as if it’s something “they” are doing (as opposed to her, a member of the U.S. Congress) Ashton Kutcher called her on it on Friday’s HBO’s Real Time w/ Bill Maher, before going on to make a very significant point about the insane way this economic “bailout” is being carried out.
“With all due respect, you’re in a position to do something very significant about it. We’re all in a position to do something very significant about it,” he tells the Congresswoman, before the actor/producer of Punk’d goes on to declare, deadly seriously, in reply to Maher: “They’re punking us right now!” (appx. 2 mins)…
I’ll tell ya, I was really impressed with Kutcher every time he opened his mouth on the show last Friday. I hope he keeps talking. Clearly, he’s been paying very close attention to what’s really going on out here. And, to that end, we’ll have another clip of him from the same show later today, which offers some pretty good evidence that he must be a BRAD BLOG reader. Stay tuned…
Text transcript follows below…
ROS-LEHTINEN: And they’re about to do it again for the big three automakers, next week, next Wednesday…
KUTCHER: With all due respect, you’re in a position to do something very signficant out it. We’re all in a position to do something very significant about it. So to say “they are going to do it again”, we are going to do it again, because we are the ones who are paying these gigantic financial institutions money so they can chill out and take these giant giant golden parachutes, whatever. These guys are sitting fat cat.
MAHER: Right.
KUTCHER: Now I run a business, and in my business, I make a lot of money. I do really well. If my business starts to fail, right? I’m the first guy who starts taking a cut, right? The big guy on top. Right now, Ford can’t run a football team, let alone an automotive factory, right? And these guys…I’m sure they’re making millions of dollars, right?! But we are gonna bail them out. We are gonna bail out the financial institutions. It’s, it’s crazy…
MAHER: So you’re saying if the industry of “punking” takes a dive…[laughter]…you are the first one to…
KUTCHER: What are you?… They’re punking us right now! [cheers] I think…I can’t take a dive. We are all being punk’d…
MAHER: …No, you’re right…
KUTCHER: We genuinely, we genuinely are. You’re right. Show me what the automative companies are gonna do to fix their company issue, and then we’ll give you a loan, or then we’ll help you out. I’d don’t understand this… Look [raises hand] I want a free check!
ROS-LEHTINEN: And where does it stop? Circuit City?…
MontyThe economy and society is structured in such a way that people are forced to own cars. Cars are a major source of CO2 emissions (not to mention toxic lead in the dust of children’s playgrounds), thus a main cause of global warming. The talk is of a bailout for the auto industry, but with little mention refitting them to be harmless to the environment. If not, then the American taxpayer will be subsidizing pollution and global warming.
When I think of the absurd wealth distribution plans of American political leaders, a certain Monty Python song comes to mind. “Dennis Moore” should be renamed “Dems ‘n’ GOP”:
“Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore
Galloping through the sward
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore
And his horse Concorde
He steals from the rich
And gives to the poor
Mr. Moore, Mr. Moore, Mr. Moore
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore
Riding through the night
Soon every lupin in the land
Will be in his mighty hand
He steals them from the rich
And gives them to the poor
Mr. Moore, Mr. Moore, Mr. Moore
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore
Dum dum dum the night
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore
Dum de dum dum plight
He steals dum dum dum
And dum dum dum dee
Dennis dum, Dennis dee, dum dum dum
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore
Riding through the woods
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore
With his bag of things
He gives to the poor
And he takes from the rich
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore
Riding through the land
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore
Without a merry band
He steals from the poor
And gives to the rich
Stupid bitch”
Ashton Kutcher nailed the problems of this so-called bailout/rescue. Responsibility and accountability should be top-down. But, as is happening all too often when truths are spoken by someone not at the top of the power and ego pyramid, Kutcher was laughed at, and his points made are dismissed by, and lost on the other people, including Maher.
Karl Denninger has been telling you what’s up with the markets way before Kutcher. Even has a plan “Genesis Plan” to solve it. This was no accident. It was planned. If only the democrats could hold their opinion of Karl, and actually bothered read the Genesis Plan, perhaps things would have been different now. But let’s keep going with the bailouts right into a “Depression We Can Believe In.”
The Kid is good. Hope he runs for office. I’d like to see him punk a few of them bastards on the hill.
Ashton’s a buddy on our networking forum, so if he’s actually reading any of the postings I’ve made (a good number of them reference BradBlog!), he is well-apprised of our current situation.