Fraud as a business model . . .

WASHINGTON'S BLOG is a relatively new blog, wherein contributors anonymously post articles of some probity without being flamed personally. Probably a Good Idea. Why? Well, the article, "Government Says No to Helping States and Main Street, While Continuing to Throw Trillions at the Giant Banks" is a ghastly lay-out of the Great Rip-Off. I knew it was bad, but this is appalling. Well worth the read. An amazingly detailed article with all manner of links, just have a bottle of Scotch or something to take the pain away. H/T to Helmut, who sometimes uses this sage piece of advice as an e-mail signature:

If you see a game going on
and you cannot figure out
who the patsy is,
you are it.