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Revolutions and Revelations in '09
The Editor, WatchOurCity.com, January 12, 2009

The Editor here at WatchOurCity punto com is
a little rusty.

A lot has happened since the last post (October
2, 2008?).

Really, before our very own eyes, modern
techno-guerilla revolutions have just taken
place and others are just unfolding.

Barack Obama is the President-elect of the United States of America. Nice! Sweet. And Wall
Street crumbles.

Its a perverse sort of revolution, though, when banks are socialized in this capitalist society.
The richest of the rich are bailed out. And the worst performing banks are targets for partial
government ownership in one form or another.

If the Mexican Revolution has taught us anything, it is that the government only takes over
profitable banks, not money losers.

Even a revolutionary like Pancho Villa knew that. He also knew a thing or two about
tinkering with an economic recovery plan, something that Obama's team is already crafting.
Back in 1913, Pancho Villa printed his very own money to provide jobs and pay for his
troops. Pancho even had his own version of a stimulus plan, which Obama is also
proposing, that is, to spend the newly minted money on building schools, roads and
infrastructure.

That's why Obama's revolution required no pandering to the Latino Vote. Nope. No
immigration promises. Nope. No border issues, or Latin American promises needed
discussing.

Just plain amazing leadership. That's all we want. That's all we expect, us Latinos, us every
citizen, here and around the world.

We don't care for Latinos up in Washington D.C. just for the hell of it. No token this or that.

I bow before all the ancient Aztec gods, new world virgins, and while were at it, all Hindu
gods even, thankful that Obama did not taint his team with a Villaraigosa appointment.

Latinos should instead be proud that Obama's economic recovery team honors Mexicans
where it really counts, by implementing Pancho Villa's economic recovery plan and stimulus
package from 100 years ago when Villa (not Villar, big difference) was Governor of
Chihuahua, Mexico.

Look, Pancho has been dead for almost 100 years and he has more to offer the Obama
administration with an economic recovery plan than Villaraigosa, Richardson, and Fabian
Nunez put together. It truly is perverse when revolutionaries turn economists and financiers
are socialized.

I mean, Obama's first embarrassment was caused by a Latino, Bill Richardson and his
curious connections to shady and unregulated municipal and government bond brokers.

Pay to play, it's called, or Quid Pro Quo (some Latin for us Latinos).

Bush, of course, had his embarrassments, too. Most notably, Alberto Gonzalez,
affectionately known as Gonzo, the monkey dancing to the tune of the organ meister who
can't get a job now, not due to the economic meltdown, but resulting from his foul smell of
criminal conduct and incompetence. But hooray, he was the first Latino AG. Yeah, whatever.

Here in the hinterlands of Huntington Park and neighboring Maywood, Cudahy, Bell and Bell
Gardens, we have our own little revolutions that also took place and nobody noticed.

Blogovitch has nothing on Huntington Park's city council. Huntington Park will hold no city
council elections for the first time in decades. Hooray for the Mexican Revolution here. And
the outing of New Mexico Governor Richardson in Pay-to-Play allegations is nothing
compared to what happens in these tiny cities.

WatchOurCity punto com continues to watch the perverse revolutions here in the
hinterlands and cauldrons of corruption known as the Southeast cities of Los Angeles
County, where they keep alive the old quaint habit of revolutions, appropriating public funds
for their friends and compadres.

Someone please tell Antonio Vivalaraza that he is as empty as an tin man. And we don't
want a tin man for governor, let alone as mayor, creepy smile, breath strips and all.

Viva la revolution?

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Monday, January 12, 2009