“What was that George? Did you say Bail Out?”

Canadian PM Stephen Harper, translates all of the bailout messages from south of the border as one might expect an economist cum political opportunist would.  He shovels gobs of money that is not his over to bankers who don’t really need it, attempts to pass a law that would bankrupt his political opposition parties and having failed in that bid he grabs his paroguechute in order to bail himself out by sending parliament home for an extended GM autoworker kind of holiday.  He then proceeds to load the Canadian Senate with a record (for one day) number of patronage appointments.  This is why he makes the big bucks. Who else could have come up with such a simple solution to a crisis that seems to have stymied so many other experts the world over?