Hypocrisy knows no political party. I happen to think it’s an affliction particularly common among Republicans, but let’s not kid ourselves: If I had a dime for every two-faced statement made by a liberal, I’d still have a 200-foot yacht. If I made the same deal with conservatives, I’d have Paul Allen’s yacht, which reportedly comes with a helipad and two submarines.
The following people (repeat offenders, all) will be making contributions to the yacht fund:
1. Rick Perry.
After claiming that corporations outsource jobs not to save money on wages but “because they were over-regulated,” Perry went on to condemn the bank bail-outs: “If you are too big to fail, you are too big. I don’t care whether you are a country or whether you are a corporation.” The Times writes that “The comments appeared to be a suggestion to either prevent companies from growing so large that failure posed a systemic risk to the economy, or to break up companies that have already grown that large.”
Yeah, that’s called regulation.
2. Occupy Wall Street.
The Guy Fawkes mask popularized by the movie “V for Vendetta” has appeared on numerous anti-Wall Street protesters. The AP reports that, “while Warner Brothers holds the licensing rights to the Guy Fawkes mask, several protesters said they were using foreign-made copies to circumvent the corporation.” More specifically, members of the hacker group Anonymous have imported 1,000 masks from China so that the proceeds go “straight into the pockets of the Anonymous beer fund rather than the Warner Brothers.”
OWS: Anti-corporation, pro-outsourcing jobs. Presumably the college graduates complaining about a lack of jobs haven’t exactly been helped by off-shoring. And presumably the decimation of the manufacturing sector that has squeezed the middle class (sorry, the “99 percent”) is linked to shipping jobs to China. Made in America, anyone?
. . . So Well Read. . . 