OH boy! When they got you they got you.

You know there is this quote I once heard in the movie "All the Presidents Men" Jack Warden, who plays an associate editor of the Washington Post tells, actors Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman , who are portraying reporters, Woodward and Bernstein, that then Presidential counsel, Richard Colsen had a saying hanging on the wall behind his desk that proclaimed;"if you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow".

More truer words have never been pieced together to bring to light what is happening to this country's middle class. The middle class, the back bone of the US economy, and who, at the rate things are going, will one day be on display along side the dinosaurs, must feel like the tough luck character in Larsen's far side cartoon. We have all seen Larsen's cartoons, if you haven't well then I suggest that you do so soon because once our duly elected, pompous windbag representatives, get finished with this bailout plan we are going to need all the laughs we can get.

Since WWII this country's government has declared war on communism , internal criminal elements, diseases, hunger, poverty, you name it if we don't like it we declared war on it. And now am afraid "our" government has declared war, on its own middle class. Yes; the middle class, the back bone from which the government extracts, through those skilled surgeons at the IRS, the funds needed to carry out their wars, wants to insert another long needle into our very marrow and extract whats left to bailout those irresponsible, greed driven, investors who have put their own personal financial wealth ahead of the health of the very institutions they are a apart of. "Their" pursuit of happiness through greed, has thrown the baby(our financial system) out with the dirty bath water, and now we are being asked, as if we have a choice, to help give that baby CPR to try and save it. The sad thing about all of this is is that as the great minds of Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke plead their cases to congress two things are certain: first they will get their money: second any real and comprehensive accountability that should be included with a bailout plan will not happen because quite frankly they have us by the balls and unfortunately with it comes our hearts and minds.