Junk Activism

In a sense, what is going on in the Global economy is a war of different sorts.  As a casual FOREX trader, I keep my eyes on the world’s biggest currencies: The U.S. Dollar, the E.U. Euro, Japanese Yen, and the Great Britain Pound Sterling..and well, they are all in deep doo-doo.  We created a bubble on a global scale and now everyone’s gasping at our “Irrational Exuberance”.  Cash Interest rates are being slashed and we’re spending more to avoid hard choices, like allowing companies to fail from a hog-wild spree of Free Market capitalism tempered with greed, lies, and stupid decision-making.

So, it leads me to this inevitable point that after all of the mainstream news and excitement of having an ultra-Liberal President, the opportunists of the Internetz have decided that it’s a good time to Stimulate the Web with great portraits of our fearless Capitalist leader, Barack Obama, riding the “Free Money” wave yet another time.   I’ve got my eyes open when I’m checking the weather, reading email, scanning the news – and I keep finding all sort of awesomely cheesy banners to get your happy, spend-itching hands on a piece of that tasty Obama pie.  Check ‘em out:

Obama….getting a good whiff of those Government dollars.

Yeah, none of these have cool Obama pictures…but still more “$12k grant” stuff invading my favorite news sites.

I suppose the ads for a “Free X-box!” weren’t working anymore – so they upped the ante to $50,000 and threw Obama on there.

Pfft.  $2.99?  Who’s got $2.99?  I’ve got to eat, you know.  That’s a meal at Taco Bell.  You’re going to have a hard time convincing me to shell out $2.99 when your competitors are offering $12,000 for free, buddy.

OOOO!!! Now this banner looks good.  It’s big and bold, it must be serious…now we’re talking!    Wait….this check says “tax refund” for $3,172.30.  I thought this was for $12,000?  I get it…you just want my $2.99, don’t ya?  I call bullshit!