NP - Euroland: it's about money

[Michael Bailey]

amazing, the clip plays right from google mail!

New Speedway Boogie -
good tune, supposedly about Altamonte, but not one of my favorite GD tunes,
for the following reasons:

- who is this Jack who is supposedly dominating the rap? oter than being
told to shut up, his issues are not addressed.  Does the lyric intend Jack
as "everybody else" or some specific person or sector?

- no love interest

- it sets up an opposition of the weight of gold and the weight of lead,
when in fact the accumulation of either implies the active presence of the
other

- I find the extended metaphor minimally helpful in terms of understanding
the objective correlative (which again would be Altamont, right? - a murder
at a rock fest (as deep a sacrilege as murder in a cathedral to a different
societal sector...) - or if they are writing for the ages, any
"Altamont-like" situation), and completely un-helpful in terms of suggesting
a constructive action of any sort, so that the lesson or message from the
song seems to me to be kind of a same-old same-old mishmash of the type that
the singer is asking "Jack" to refrain from -- isn't it? If not, how not?


anyway, not my favorite GD song, lyric wise, but cool sounding jam like all
of their stuff...

but my respectful question is this, or something like it:

Greece, using the Euro, had its own gov't budget, right?

So the representatives created financial obligations beyond their power to
immediately pay, and at that point the nice man from Goldman Sachs said,
like he did to the sewer commission in Alabama, let me help you with that.

so now the sewer commission owes a billion or so on a hundred million dollar
sewer system - what I was wondering is, is what GS did with greek debt as
"helpful" to them as their work with municipal sewers?
were they W&TF (well and truly failed) at that point already, or if some,
like, nice and ethical international banking company had stepped in, not
necessarily having Greece's best interests in 1st place, but at least having
a place on their list for that factor......could they have fixed them?
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