Where's Your Bailout?

If there is one good reason not to be a conservative Republican, it's the advertisements on conservative talk radio: how to recuse yourself of your debts.

"If you owe more than ten thousand dollars in credit card debt, there are government programs that can help. Wall St. received bailouts, and you should, too."

There's a reason these are being advertised on Hannity, Rush, and Sullivan -- conservatives are just as much up to their eyeballs in debt as liberals, and when it comes to government intervention (not to raise taxes but to wipe away debt free and clear,) well, that's an acceptable form of government, yes.

The latest ad all but suggested that if our dear Americans weren't in so much debt that we'd be out of recession already. Wa-hey! What a revelation! And thus, if, somehow, someone could come along and magically remove some of that debt hanging like a millstone around our national economy, we'll, we'd be primed for recovery.

That is -- recovery is nothing more than a continuation of debt-based consumption.

I still relish the chance to listen to conservative talk radio as I so rarely get the opportunity these days, as I don't drive that much and my car radio has died anyway. I don't care much to listen to these advertisements, except that they only further convince me that conservatives are just as likely to fuck over everyone they ever loaned money from as anyone else, so I most certainly won't hold them up as saviors of fiscal responsibility. No, that responsibility is, I believe, conditioned within each of us differently and is independent of our political affiliations. Either you pay back people you owe or you don't.