I fought the bailout, and all I got was a t-shirt.
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Anti-bailout t-shirts are here, and they are funny, but they are also, in a way, deadly serious.
This is how it works in America in 2008: On Monday, bailout backlash was a historic popular revolt that shocked Washington and Wall Street. Today the bailout is law and the revolt is just a t-shirt, available on-line for $15.
If you can’t read it, the shirt says, ‘Got $700 billion?’
And so capitalism, in the form of on-line t-shirt vendors, clings to life in America.
On a serious note: There is some real generational backlash going on here. From what my 40-something ears can still hear, I sense that young people are pretty ticked off at Baby Boomers for creating messes like this one, and then sending the bill to the next generation.
I repeat what commenter ‘awing’ wrote here earlier today:
The baby boomer generation have given us youngsters a going away present as they head off to retirement; the bill for their retirement accounts.
Tune in to our wallets.Turn off democratic representation.Drop out with the wealth of future generations. Thanks, aging hippies!
--Peter Viles
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