We can't wait! We must act now!

Where have I heard those words before?  "Immediate passage of this bill is crucial."

Don't stop to read it or anything time-wasting like that, just pass it.  The world will end instantly if we don't pass this by COB Monday.

In the last eight years, that kind of thinking has cost us trillions of dollars in Iraq and has seriously eroded our domestic security and civil liberties.  Dennis Kucinich says he is the ONLY person in Congress who had his staff read the Patriot Act (sorry, the U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act and please stand with your hand over your heart as you say that) from cover to cover (before refusing to sign it, I might add) and, as no-one has jumped up and said "I did!", I have no reason to question the fact.  Now we have yet another opportunity to blindly accept another staggering opportunity to throw another trillion of borrowed money at a problem without stopping to read the fine print.  This from the people who pushed de-regulation so far that fine print is regularly used to surgically remove any rights the signer might have had should things not turn out quite as advertised.

Did you notice how quickly the big guys leaped back in to the market once word was out that we, the taxpayer, were going to make everything all right?   My thoughts on the market are for another rant, though.  For now, lets hope that Dennis Kucinich is paying attention.  And let's hope that with a little sleeve-tugging he can get the attention of his fellow lawmakers before they stampede us over yet another cliff.   

Incidentally, does anyone wonder where all this money is actually going?  I mean in detail.  Is it going to pay off the mortgages of homeowners about to be foreclosed on?  Or is it going to shore up the coffers so that large shareholders can protect their portfolios?  Methinks the latter is a tad more likely.  Still waiting for that trickle-down to reach you?  Keep waiting folks.