Business and Government

I was going to bang out a rant about how Halliburton is moving it's headquarters to Dubai and how it's spinning off it's KBR military contracting subsidiary (Washinton Post, NYT). About how that really, really, looks like they're on their way to privatizing their oil business and wrapping it in even more levels of questionable accounting and tax practices, just for the sake of higher profits.

I was going to point out how, even though they are well within their rights to do so, the way government has let a number of U.S. Attorneys go is just plain stupid (NYT), and how I do love my old home town (ish) Senator Chuck Schumer (who is quoted often in that artcile), even though I don't agree with him all the time.

I was going to marvel at how the higher-ups are dropping like flies over this whole Walter Reed Medical Center thing (NYT) and how it is appalling that anyone could let anything get that bad for people who've given so much in the name of this country.

I was going to do all of that, but I just can't seem to build up a good head of steam to really let those who deserve it, have it.

Why? Because the sad fact is none of it is all that surprising. My faith in the current administration and their lackeys has hit such a low point that nothing short of something being done right and honestly will surprise me.

It doesn't upset me as much as it depresses me to see these things go on. In the same breath those in charge claim internationalism and isolationism, freedom and oppression, charity and greed...

The more they talk, the less they say. The less they say, the fewer people actually bother to listen.

And that, I fear, is what they really want. They want no one listening when they say something that may actually be important.

So, no matter how depressing it is, I keep reading. I keep listening. I keep watching.

Because I want to see the end coming. I want to celebrate it or fight it, as need dictates.

But, mostly, I just want it to be over so we can get on with the changes.