Some things I’ve been batting around lately
I’ve been thinking about a few things lately, and I haven’t totally sorted my thoughts yet, but I wanted to put them out there for discussion/ridicule/kickstarting etc…
1) Here’s a conservative blogger named Andrew Sullivan talking about something that has REALLY been bugging me and continues to…..he expresses my thoughts better than I think them, read his post….
Let’s be real in a way the national media seems incapable of: this person should never have been placed on a national ticket in a mature democracy. She was incapable of running a town in Alaska competently. The impulsive, unvetted selection of a total unknown, with no knowledge of or interest in the wider world, as a replacement president remains one of the most disturbing events in modern American history.
2) It’s driving me crazy that the same guy who successfully lobbied the SEC to drop the barriers to risky investments that led to our current banking situation, that same guy is now the Secretary of the Treasury and is basically looting the entire American Treasury and handing it over to a bunch of absolute crooks. With no meaningful oversight, no accountability, no transparency, and no discernible collateral, he has basically spearheaded the worst looting of the public in history…..AND NO ONE’S LOSING THEIR MINDS ABOUT THIS!!!! Except Lou Dobbs…..(BTW, does anyone else think Dobbs is hammered half the time?)
3) Joe Lieberman has to GO! Are you serious? In the name of unity going forward we have to keep this dangling hemorrhoid around gassing away with his bullshit? If he was on the right they would have dragged him outside and had some of their knuckle-draggers beat his ass til he promised to wear lipstick on TV….and the supposed left is gonna keep him on as a powerful chairman of a committee? At least the right always has their retribution stick close at hand, no matter how inappropriately they normally use it….here’s something you can do about it.
4) And on a related note, why is it when the regular people commit crimes they go to jail, and when the rulers do the same and worse, they get to walk in the name of bi-partisan unity? Sorry, but the the ONLY way these vile shenanigans are gonna stop is to start prosecuting this crap, BASED ON THE LAW, and NOT ON ANYTHING BUT THAT! Maybe it has something to do with an entire industry built on warehousing our underclasses in prisons built and run by giant corporations….
5) Corporate Welfare. All I want to say about this is that if you want a “free market”, (BTW, what we have in the US is FAR from that, with all of our government seemingly engaged solely in the task of protecting certain companies in every market from anything like competition, another thing that bugs me), then you’re gonna have companies that fail. If American banks, financial service companies, car companies, war services support companies, etc can’t compete, then they should be allowed to FAIL on their own merits. Yes I know that overly simplistic, but the fact is it sorta DOES boil down to that after all the yakking.
6) And on a related note, if we ARE going to bail out all these companies, then we GET SOME OWNERSHIP TOO!! What investor in ANY industry just comes in and hands over some savior money without getting a piece of the pie? NONE!! So if we’re investing, then we’re gonna profit too. Calling THAT socialization is against all normal ideas of investing, and why should we be considered less deserving just because we’re the PUBLIC?!?!?
I have more, I’ll just tag them on here…..and you can add your’s as well….