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Where is the change, Mr. President?

Who can forget the days in mid-September 2008 when hundreds of billions became an household word. In a world where billions still live under-a-dollar a day, Senate went ahead to give largess of unbelievable $700 billion to greedy bankers.

In many ways, this bailout, that taking money from commoners pocket to feed the rich, was inevitable. Inevitable because there was no option to decline. It was accept or you accept. The fervent pleas of Paulson and his 'dire consequences' reverberated through the air.




Billions have flown out from people to bankers, administration has changed but not the 'if else, otherwise' attitudes of lawmakers. "If you don't give up few billions from your purse whole world will be afire." Use words like Armageddon or Catasrophe in the newspaper headlines and you will get billions sanctioned. Where is the change, Mr. President?


The fact is we are all dead, it is just that they are delaying the inevitable. There is no way the world's most debtor country can lead a recovery to sanity without having to go through a rough patch called recession. And recession is something everybody is avoiding like leprosy. May be too early to judge Obama but there seems to be no major change, yet.
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