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The Bailout: A Dramatization

Those wonks over at The Nation have rendered our government’s ongoing corporate welfare scheme, known colloquially as “Carpetbaggers 2: The Return,” in terms that the average Kentuckian can understand. (sorry: No explosions or tits!) Although their allegory, which personifies the failing financial institutions in the fictitious guise of “Joe & Katie Hazzard,” is at times [...]