Hi there citizens! Do you remember me? I'm your Uncle Sam. And the little lady next to me is my, friend, I mean niece. "Tell 'em my name, Sammy baby." Oh yeah citizens, this is Suzie, my niece. Oh, I told you that already. Oh well. Hey listen citizens, I'm here to give you some great news about "your" government. That's your government, the one that takes sooo much out of your paycheck each week. Well, we're growing to serve you better. We're spending billions of "your" dollars without asking you. We're proud to announce that AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been nationalized and are now part of your government. And to reflect these changes we have changed the name of your country from The United States of America to America, Inc. You like it? Sure you do. We've now spent $800 billion dollars of "your" taxpayer money on "bailouts." Awesome. Your government is now in the business of insurance, weapons, mortgages, law and order, farming, oil and gas, truck driver health, hurricane and tornado rescue and sooo much more! Your government might be also be in the airline and auto manufacturing business by this time next year. If Chrysler goes under, we'll be right there with a really large net of your hard earned cash. We thinking of renaming the Chrysler 300, the America! Nascar is looking better and better. Maybe we'll buy them too. In fact, should the economy continue into the toilet, we might just nationalize everything, like Venezuela did. In fact, our new economic model is China. Can you say comrade? Oh, this is all so exciting. Well, citizens, I mean comrades, that's all for now. I'm your Uncle Sam and that's my friend, I mean niece, Suuzee. The credit for the photo is http://www.flickr.com/photos/25057732@N06/2478238363
