I haven’t kept up with blog posts lately. Partly it’s because everything I would windge about is sort of off limits.
I can’t post about most work stuff because it’s way too easy to figure out who I am with just my first name and my job title. Plus I’d never have anything bad to say about work because that would be wrong.
I can’t post about Sarah “Skinny G” Palin because I don’t really have anything to add to the conversation. It’s all been said. Good, bad, true, false. Criticizing her further would be like kicking a puppy. Oh yeah, and I’ll never vote for her again. I’ve been disillusioned. At this point I feel sorry for her kids.
I’m going to
Could be worse. I could live in Wasilla.
I’m not hopeful about the economy.
On one hand I’m something of a Socialist. I love the idea of nationalized healthcare and free education and food/shelter/jobs for the hungry/homeless/unemployed. In the
On the other hand I’m cool with capitalism. Big governments have big bureaucracy and therefore big problems. Individual entrepreneurs are the backbone of our country. By the same token the banks and mortgage companies and large corporations involved in the whole mortgage-backed securities and commercial dept obligation nightmare can choke on their own vomit.
This bailout plan, while keeping us afloat (which is a good idea,) rewards these same banks and big corporations who screwed everything up. It’s socialism for rich folks and free market capitalism for poor folks. That doesn’t seem fair.
I’m not hopeful about the situation in the
How can we get all up in
Who would have thought that 20 years after the end of the cold war we’d be the biggest debtor state and have a bad reputation in a lot of the world and
1 comment:
I agree with you about the socialism / capitalism.
I think we should have let the economy tank, and the market correct it all. Yes it would have been ugly, but it would have taught the bastards a lesson. Instead we've bailed out the people who got us into the mess in the first place.
These, I might add, are the same folks that cry when you want to regulate them, they are all about the FREE aspect of capitalism. Don't over tax them! Don't over regulate them, let the market sort it out, that justifies their high salaries. 'If the market will pay me that much, why not?'
Now, those same people want the public to bail them out. Boo hoo.
Here is a Kleenex, get over it.
Sorry that you won't have more time on your travels. If you do make it through this way, we'd be happy to not take you to a concert where you'd be up on the last row. :)
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