Zelda warriors: Crazy pills edition

Remember the presidential campaign? Those were some nutty days. The epically crazy stuff coming out of the McCain campaign, combined with the Bush administration taking advantage of its last opportunities to show its genuine and sincere contempt not only for the American people but all of creation, truly made right-thinking people feel as if they were, in fact, taking crazy pills.

You'd think that once an intelligent, thoughtful, compassionate, and capable individual took a seat in the Oval Office, our addled brains would get a rest from what can only be described as a clandestine spiking of our Pepsi Max with some sort of pernicious insanity-inducing potion. Alas, that's not the case, and you've got the economy to thank for that. If you're a regular reader of Dangerous, Dirty, and Unfun, you can probably tell where I stand on the whole "giving billions of dollars to the guys that burned the world economy to the ground" thing, so these posts won't beat you over the head with the sheer injustice being perpetrated on regular American people. However, comma, there's enough unadulterated lunacy out there that I don't have to put up a "wait, why wouldn't we want to help people pay off their mortgages instead of letting them foreclose" post every other day.

## Now, I'm not an economist, but I do know a little something about like, logic. Where I grew up, when you took someone's money in exchange for a service, you provided that service. And if you didn't, there were consequences. AIG, obviously, didn't grow up where I did. Imagine if I sold you a glass of lemonade on a hot day. But instead of giving you your lemonade, I just took your quarter and put a $1,000 bet on the Washington Generals. Is that not what AIG did?

## This ABC News story has had the S flogged out of it throughout the liberal blogosphere for the past couple days, so I won't add any more than my own few cents: we should all be so lucky, that we can choose to be latter-day John Galts and work less (and cost other people their jobs) in a recession, all to, I don't know, give Obama the finger? Prevent poor people from getting health insurance? What's the angle here?

## Here is, incidentally, a dose of sane pills, courtesy of Boston College's own Alicia Munnell: Social Security isn't in a crisis. And it would be utter maniacal insanity to even consider cutting benefits.