It's a man fishing for change in a fountain. I took this picture while trying not to disturb him. Just out of frame to the right is a wheelchair. His wheelchair. While he is not totally handicapped, he can't move around as well as most of us and needs the chair for mobility. I've seen this guy before. I've never seen him do this before. I haven't seen anyone do this since Reagan's presidency. Money hasn't been so worthless, yet so precious, since Reagan. This time however, it's worse. Anyone who doesn't think so is crazy.
A month ago, in the company of people with 9 figure bank accounts, I was listening to a conversation about how expensive it is to travel to Europe right now. Imagine hearing about how expensive things are from people who collectively have half a billion dollars. Wow.
Now, about this bailout. I can't seem to find out if it includes "golden parachutes" for the people that put us into this mess to begin with. I'll bet it does. Why else would the President and Vice President push so hard for it's approval, I mean, even the Republicans in the House and Senate didn't want this thing to go through. Nobody did, but they voted it through anyway... the second time around.
The reality is, even with such a weak, weak dollar, that Wall Street is still the center of the world's economy. Of course right now it's more like the epicenter! Had Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac gone under the global economy would have literally come to an immediate stop. Chaos and rioting would have erupted, and only people with guns would be safe... sort of safe.
The full breadth of the banking crisis outside of Fannie and Freddie has yet to be seen. The market took a big drop yesterday. I wonder if it'll be under 9000 by week's end.
The Bush administration caused this mess, and they should be tried criminally. McCain will continue this course of destructive leadership. Palin? She's an idiot. If you don't think so, well, you're IQ is even lower than hers.
Now, how many of you saw this coming? I did. I saw lots of bad things coming while Bush and Gore were still campaigning! I knew the outcome wouldn't be pretty if Bush won. I also knew quite a few people, in Florida, that could have voted for Gore, but chose to vote for Nader. I'll bet they regret that now.
Had Gore won I doubt that 9/11 would have happened. Once it did though I knew we were headed right for this type of situation.
The housing market crash? Saw it coming. Financial market? Saw it coming. Energy costs? Saw it coming. I saw it all, pretty much the way it's going now. I'm no Nostradamus, but for this I don't need to be. It's all obvious like rain.
As for the rest, the things that are yet to come, I got a good feeling as to what's next. Do you?
If you're not, 1) paying attention and, 2) acting appropriately you're making our situation worse. No doubt making it worse! Many things in life are full of gray areas, or colored areas. This is definitively black and white. There is no middle ground here.
This election is a fight for life.
If you don't believe in dinosaurs, or that the world is, oh, a few billion years older than 5000, or that Adam and Eve, while a nice fairy tale, is false like Pamela Anderson's boobs, you are a terrorist. You just don't know it yet, and your intent is to see the world burn.
Question, if you make an allowance for dinosaurs as reality while still believing in Jesus does that make you a hypocrite? I mean, there's clear physical evidence of dinosaurs, but not a single shred of it for Jesus. The "gospel" doesn't mention dinosaurs. The "scriptures" were written at least 60 years after his death. Were all the disciples 10 years old when he was nailed up? How long was the average life span back then? Hmmmm, probably shorter than today, right? Ever notice that when someone says, "it's gospel", about something not religious they mean it's something that you do without clear reason? Let's look at giving money to the church. Aren't they rich after all these centuries of taking? They can't take the money to heaven, right?
Well, enough for today. Check yourself to see if you're a terrorist, or humanist.
Me, I'm with the humans.
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