Also how to deal with grief. In a recent post, Confluence’s resident thirteen year old “takes Obama to task” for failing to make retroactive his provision capping executive pay for companies receiving bailout money. The operative sections below:
That little detail [about non-retroactivity] makes the proposed compensation cap about as effective as a morning-after condom.
Can anyone here tell me what’s wrong with blaming Obama for failing to cap salaries at companies that already received bailout money? Anyone with something greater than a third-grade education?
Yes, you in the back: yes, that’s right. You can’t condition money you’ve already given, and Barack Obama especially can’t be blamed for failing to condition money already given out by the Bush administration. Admittedly, the problem with Confluence’s argument is pretty nuanced: it only becomes clear once you realize that time moves forward.
Losers.
Update: I get a mature reply, wherein the author of the original post completely misses the point:
Ame(les)s: You’re a putz. The point of the post is that Obama is taking credit for locking the barn after the horses died of old age. It doesn’t matter when they died, they’re dead.
Quick reply. Obama never purported to be fixing the Bush bailout. He’s not taking any credit, and you’re still blaming him for something he never did.
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