I Was Thunkin’…

 

Reminder: Due to the time it takes to create a Coffeehouse post, I’m now presenting them every other Wednesday. If you have come to Nick’s Bytes seeking music, you’ll find five wonderful songs in yesterday’s post. There are also a couple in the today’s post; for a preview of next Wednesday’s Coffeehouse, listen to the song posted today at the top of my sidebar under Song in my Mind Today. Please be aware that I change that song daily and tomorrow it probably won’t reflect next Wednesday’s Coffeehouse.

 

think, thank, thunk

Bob Gibson & Bob Camp, The Thinking Man

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Woke up this morning and you were on my mind. Well, not really. Actually, I can’t remember what was on my mind. I do remember that before I arose from my bed, I turned on National Public Radio and heard this: 

The Treasury's bailout program was originally designed to assist financial services companies, which held toxic mortgage-backed securities that were at the heart of the financial crisis. The government expanded the reach of the program by offering assistance to banks of all sizes. 

…Now, Detroit's Big Three automakers — General Motors, Ford and Chrysler — are lobbying for $25 billion in loans to help them survive. That's in addition to the $25 billion that Congress approved in September as funding to help the U.S. auto industry develop fuel-efficient technology.

~ NPR, Bailout Becomes Magnet For Other Industries

So…. I got to thunkin’. No one gave me a bailout when my Dutch mortgage company, ABN-AMRO, demanded $4,449.00 or they’d foreclose. No one even loaned me the money for four months until my pension began and I had the money to catch up on the mortgage! So… ABN-AMRO foreclosed! 

So… I got to thunkin’. Maybe things are “back-assward” (as the greenskeeper at the golf course where I worked summers during college often said). Instead of lending $700 billion to banks and such to cover “bad debts,” perhaps the government should have been helping the debtors? 

But, says the right-wing pundit,  that would be Socialism! 

 So… I got to thunkin’. Maybe I should change my name to General Motors, Ford or Chrysler? But Arlo Guthrie already had that idea:

I’m Changing My Name to Chrysler

So… I got to thunkin’. Just a week ago my soul was filled with hope as I contemplated our future with President-Elect Obama. But, then, maybe being President of the United States isn’t such a grand occupation at the moment:

I really have to stop thunkin’!