Santelli Rants: "Ditch The Duct Tape; The Problem Is Insolvency"

“What’s the difference between the US and Europe?” ‘About Six Years’ is the punchline that CNBC’s Rick Santelli ascribes the apparently magnanimous view that Europe is so much different from us. Between PIMCO’s Kashkari pontificating on unsustainable debt (and the Fed’s need to ‘do something’, and Liesman still defending the Fed with all his might, Santelli loses it – noting Kashkari’s intelligence, he rhetorically asks “Do you really think [the Fed] is the solution?” – and rightly so. “It’s all band-aids,” he exclaims, adding that “the problem is insolvency.” Speaking out loud what many are thinking, Rick blasts the hypocrisy of the Kashkaris of the world who opine on solutions (and band-aids) while missing the critical underlying problem – that no one is accountable. Between Reagan, ‘unreal’ spending cuts, compromised ‘bad’ resolutions, and the continuing ostrich economics in the US mainstream, Santelli tells it like it is – as hard as it is for the CNBC anchors to hear.

The action heats up around 3:30 but the whole thing is worthwhile for a summary of the unreality of spending cuts and borrowing largesse.