Yeah, LH... Yer on to me... Sorry, I'm just havin' a borin' kinda day and figured if I can't find someone here in the Mudpuddle to mess with then what am I to do seein' as the P-Vine has hid that jug of shine from me??? Now ya' know why I am a bluesman...

But yer right... Banks can lend money (not gold, not four leaf clovers or even snakes) to one another and bet with other folks that the the banks they lent it to won't repay the loan and then middle men come in and act as betting brokers and siphon off a big slice which then gets kicked back to all their banking friends... That's purdy much what is going on and then someone on the NPR radio says that these brokers "made" the money??? WTF??? Are they in the counterfiet business, 'er what??? They didn't make the money... They stole the money all legal and then the workin' stiffs have to chip in to repay the banks for the money that these hoodlums stole and...

...the beat goes on...

When credit defualt swaps are made illegal we will be takin' the first step toward correcting what is wrong with banking 'cuase all you have now is banks lending to each other like guys sittin' at a poker table and other rich folks sitting around "making" (ha) money bettin' on which back is going to repay which other band and which banks aren't...

Talk about silly??? This is sillier than the gold (or boa) standard...

B~

p.s. Poor ol' Obama ain't been able squeeze in a decent blatent lie between all this silly stuff...