By Special Guest Columnist Craig Cantoni:

What happens when our overlords in Congress, the White House and the Federal Reserve destroy the economy and ruin millions of lives? They get invited to cocktail parties and news shows, and are treated with respect and dignity by the public.

What happens when some poor schlemiel gets caught with several ounces of dope for his own use and hasn’t harmed anyone? He goes to prison.

Have we lost all sense of proportionality and justice?

Sorry, but please allow me one more emotional outburst: What kind of mind control has taken place to keep Americans from thinking about throwing their overlords in prison?

That’s not a facetious question. If you thought it was, then perhaps you don’t know what the overlords have been doing to us for the last three decades to bring us close to economic collapse today. They have knowingly turned the country into a debtor nation, given average folks an incentive to spend more than they make, created the housing bubble and other bubbles, given us trillions of dollars of free stuff without any intention of paying the bill, debased the dollar and thus our standard of living, and covered their crimes with economic bunkum, populist hokum, and money borrowed from foreigners.

If you don’t think that Alan Greenspan, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and John McCain should be wearing prison stripes and eating from metal plates instead of going to Washington cocktail parties, then you must want to empty prisons of all convicted burglars, because, collectively, burglars have done far less harm to society than Congress, the White House and the Fed.

Or perhaps you don’t know the facts, which would be understandable, given that government K-12 schools and government-dependent universities don’t educate students about the economic crimes of the government. Some of those students become reporters and pundits, who don’t know enough about economics and economic history to tell their audiences about the crimes. However, in their defense they know a lot about A-Rod’s affair with Madonna.

A day doesn’t go by without someone sending an email to me about Big Oil, regurgitating some tripe he heard in the imbecilic media about Exxon Mobil’s profits and oil speculators. The senders don’t know that Exxon Mobil is a small player compared to the real Big Oil — the state-owned oil companies around the world. Even more telling, the senders never say anything about Big Fanny. No, not their rear ends, where many of them keep their heads; but Fannie Mae, the voracious monster created by the government to give mortgages to people who shouldn’t get mortgages.

Big Fanny has become a slush fund for political payoffs and cronyism. Its former CEO, who made $90 million a year, was fired for cooking the books; yet he became an advisor to Mr. Change, Barack Obama. More capital has gone through Big Fanny than cr*p through the fannies of every goose in the world. If the company runs out of capital, the government could be on the hook for $5 trillion.

Psst! Let me whisper a secret to you: The government is you.

Amazingly, Big Fanny is a small burglary ring compared to Big Congress and Big Fed, the members of which deserve to be sent to the Big House and have their fannies lusted after by their fellow inmates.

Yeah, I know: You’re powerless to mete out justice and imprison them. But the least you can do is stop treating them with respect and start treating them like the Big Crooks and Big Arsses that they are.

An author and columnist, Mr. Cantoni can be reached at ccan2@aol.com.

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