Post #2: Uber Satire

When even XKCD goes romantic suspensy:

Federal Reserve Skateboard: A Short Story
(Written after sitting in a car for five hours listening to financial news stories.)

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Damn these subprime lenders, thought Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, barely keeping his balance on the wobbling skateboard. We can’t afford more debt. He snapped a grappling-hook-tipped quarrel into his crossbow as the skateboard slowed. When the country owes trillions and is asking for more, its shadowy creditors start calling in favors.

The crossbow twanged, carrying his climbing rope up the side of the Federal Reserve building. As he began his ascent, he reflected on the years past. I inherited a broken system, he insisted to himself. We’re simply doing what’s required to prevent a catastrophe. It’s not my fault.

He tossed his skateboard over the parapet and hauled himself over. He dropped six feet to the roof, landed heavily on the board, and trundled on into the night.

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To continue to read this absolutely hysterical Bernanke-turned-Alias caper, please click on the SKCD link above. It gave me quite a few chuckles. Sometimes it takes a little (okay, a lot) of humor to explain certain elements in our government.

Sniff. This really tempts me to write another Greek Chorus Rendition of the $700 Billion Bailout, with names of major political players and shadowy figures, along with The Black Ferret Secret Society ;-).

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