Jefferson County incompetence

News comes today from AL.com that the Jefferson County Commission is begging to not be placed into recievership. What a bunch of incompetent morons. If I owed a lender and refused to pay my bill for as long as the county has, I would be on the receiving end of a lawsuit, judgment, and garnishment. However, once again it appears that laws do not apply to the Government like it does to us plebes. The arrogance of members of our county commission is galling.

Those poor mortgage lenders

Well, right out of the gate, a politically-themed post. Yippee!!

I ran across this post at the Kansas Curmudgeon blog, which pretty much sums up my feelings on the matter.

The home mortgage crisis is only a symptom of a larger problem in America today, and that is this: corporations pretty much own our government. Our elected officials are not beholden to the taxpayer citizens anymore, because we can't wave millions of dollars at them - which is criminal. Whether it's the drug companies fudging the research for the FDA so they can rush their new heart-attack-inducing drug to market, to the banking industry getting a free pass on consumer's rights, it is sickening. All in the name of greed.

It is, truly, all about the Benjamins.