Cheney's Finances

THE MOTIVATION FOR THIS POST:
I was talking to one of my friends in America last week (I was also in America while talking to him), and I made a remark about Cheney's finances, and how Cheney was betting against the dollar while saying that America's trade deficit didn't matter. He told me that he hadn't heard about that, and that I should post about it so more people would hear about it. So, my dozen readers, here it is.

THE STORY:
Dick Cheney says that running a trade deficit doesn't matter. That means that he thinks that if a country is importing a lot more than it's exporting, things will work out for that country in the long run.

Cheney first mention of this was 2005 at the latest.

Tom Blackburn of the Palm Beach Post says that Cheney has invested heavily in a fund that specialized in short-term municipal bonds, a tax exempt money market fund, and an inflation-protected securities fund. Also, Cheney has put between $10 Million and $25 Million into a European bond fund.

Why, if Cheney believes that the dollar is safe and that running a trade deficit is not a bad thing, has be put his money in Europe? I mention also that this is the "old Europe" that was so disparaged when the countries constituting it didn't want to support the Iraq War.

The answer is that Cheney does not believe that the dollar is safe. He's just looting the treasury of the United States.

COMMENTARY:
Usually I like to be kind of restrained when talking about elected officials, and to try to understand why they're pursuing the policies they're pursuing. Ted Stevens of Alaska seems like a crazy asshole until we realize that he brings in a lot of money for his state, and his reticent defense of all the pork projects that go to Alaska is an expression of his desire for his constituents to be given lots of money. In that case, we can recognize that his motives are bad because he's wasting money, but we can also appreciate that he does a hell of a good job as a representative, getting money for his constituents and looking out for their financial well-being. What would make John McCain say absolutely stupid things about Iraq2 and what would make him cuddle up to those charlatanic fucks, the Christian Right? Well, he really wants to be President. It's kind of charming and pathetic (in the moving, touching sense, not in the sense of "contemptible"), and when you think about that along with the fact that he spent seven years drinking his own urine in some bamboo tiger cage while black-clad dudes threw lit cigarettes in his festering wounds.

Usually I like to restrain myself when talking about elected officials, but not when I talk about Vice President Richard Bruce Cheney. I don't feel bad about calling him a shit-eating, grandmother-fucking, draft-dodging, cowardly, bald, fat, unattractive, not-getting-laid, hateful, hypocritical, ashamed-of-his-lesbian-daughter-who-is-admittedly-a-fucking-goldbricking-neocon-apologist-cunt, dropout, son of a bitch. Don't cut Cheney any slack. He doesn't cut you any slack. Life is a serious game, and Cheney plays it for keeps, and he plays it well. He has no desire to be President, so he doesn't have to say things that he doesn't believe, like John McCain might. Cheney can just prusue whatever fucked-up baby-eating, soldier-neglecting, flag-waving, Fox-News-friendly, xenophobic, provincial, hateful agenda he wants. And you can't do shit about it. You can't do shit. Do you want the war to end? Here's Cheney's message to you: TOO FUCKING BAD, PUSSIES. You're not in charge of the country. The President's been making that point for six years. No matter what you do, our countrymen are going to continue to die so that Cheney and his friends can get whatever it is that they get from making war on people of my age and status.

And now guess what? Cheney says that it doesn't matter that America's running a trade deficit, because he read that shit in Milton Friedman and people who are plutocrat fucks like Cheney love Friedman because his economics doesn't take account of the concerns of future. Friedman's economic theory can be quoted when Cheney wants to sound like he's not a fucking pointless warmongering FATHER OF A LESBIAN OF WHOM IS SO ASHAMED THAT HE CANNOT TALK ABOUT HER WITH WOLF BLITZER ON CNN, BECAUSE HE IS A BITCH-ASS PUNK. I WILL FUCKING FISTFIGHT YOU, RICHARD BRUCE CHENEY. COME TO BERLIN.

By the way, your party thinks that your daughter is an abomination. To have a consistent political philosophy, either you're going to have to side with your daughter or your party. I can't even imagine the hell of self-loathing inside your poor, deluded daughter's lesbian brain.

P.S. If you're a future employer, and you've blogged me and you found this and you don't like it, then fuck yourself, you crypto-hateful shit!