Comments on: Updated: The Hildebeest to Level the Lending Industry https://barelyablog.com/the-hildebeest-to-level-the-lending-industry/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Szasz https://barelyablog.com/the-hildebeest-to-level-the-lending-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-2993 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:35:07 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=590#comment-2993 You are correct, Ilana. Such whimsical approach to “leadership” is totally symptomatic of what created this mess. No comprehension of consequences. Just “change…right now.” Then, after it fails and creates even more severe distortions to economic reality, simply point fingers and lie about whose responsibility it should be, rather than whose culpability it ultimately resides with.

“Barely-a-rock” and “Billary” are both promulgating their pathetic “nonsense” to dupe the ignorant in sufficient numbers to get their hands on power. It’s a modern version of “…a chicken in every pot…” Only, any knowing economist would call it “…a rabbit in every hat…”
What a comedy team this pair would make for a low-level-lounge act in a dimly lit, backstreet bar on a wharf somewhere. Please, not in America. Not in my country. Certainly not in the country my grandparents immigrated to (and subsequently helped “build”) with only what they could carry on their backs and within their tired hands and worn-out pockets.

Politics by popularity, via vapid empty promises. Economic prosperity by issuing massive amounts of (more) fiat currency. Anyone with money will also need a wheelbarrow of it to buy a loaf of bread. (People in Germany, during the height of post-World War I “hyper-inflation” actually “burned” the currency just to keep warm, it was so worthless.)

Someone, please “get a hook” and pull these two obnoxious characters off of the stage. I was already nauseated before their act started.

After one (or both) of them get elected, the works of Kafka will be most appropriate; fitting; suitable for four-or-more years of their ill-formed consequences to the (remaining) economic might of America.

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Franz Kafka (circa 1917):

“Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence… Someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.”

“There is hope, but not for us.”
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Szasz

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