These politicians deserve an Oscar

I am beginning to understand why actors do well in politics ... watch just about anything coming out of the mouth of the politicians involved in this financial mess and you will see acting.

My favorite is when they act 'outraged' and 'forceful' when they suggest suicide or demand money be given back to the taxpayers. They play the part of the white knights riding in to the rescue but played a huge part in creating the problem they are now pretending to fix.

The further along this entire AIG debacle gets the more intertwined you see this corporation is with several of the actors in Congress. Yet they pretend to be offended and surprised at the brazenness of the executives involved. They stand on the grand stage in Washington and pontificate on the merits or erecting a 200-mile fence along the 2000-mile border with Mexico. It would seem someone in the room should point out that if you have a floodplain five miles long and build a levy in the middle half mile wide that it likely won't stop the water from coming in.

To this they claim "limited resources."They have the resources to give billions to an insurance company that no taxpayers support but they have limited resources for border security that just about all taxpayers want.

Politicians come up with some incredibly bad ideas and this newest group seems even more confused and incompetent then most. Yet we are waiting for them to fix a financial disaster that they played a huge part in causing. President Reagan used to say 'Government can't fix the problem, government is the problem." We are in the process of seeing government grow bigger and garner control of more aspects of our day-to -day life. I hope we are not all 'extras' in a movie with an unhappy ending.

Marc Thomsen

Elk Grove Village