Maybe from now on this can be called the "We're Fucked" web log.

Ladies, gentlemen, you've now arrived at the end of America as we knew it.

No one, no one ever had the guts to say it, but the whole reason that this country was founded was so we wouldn't have to look at each other; so we would have the right to be left the fuck alone.

It's over now

The Bush Administration has carefully preserved bad policies from the administration and congress before his presidency, and thus we've arrived in this economic hell where the banks all knew, ALL KNEW that they had free reign of the marketplace and of people's wallets. The reason that the bailout is bad is because it's the best we have to offer right now. That's how far we've descended into madness, a Republican president is proposing that we socialize the debt of our big companies, with the conceit that while the money is meant to clear the debts of the people who defaulted to the banks, those banks, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Bear Sterns, all of whom will never, ever hand the money over to the people, which means they will be paid double for the money that they lent out. For instance, if you owed a hundred thousand dollars to AIG over a loan you took out to purchase a house and you defaulted, AIG is about get a check that the government loaned you in order for you to not be in debt to AIG, but they won't clear your debt. You will still owe AIG, with maybe a break on when you have to pay it back; they've doubled their money.

I'm a canvasser for the Democratic National Committee, and speaking with a gentleman the other afternoon, he told me that maybe 100 million people pay taxes in this country, which translates to $7000 dollars put on each taxpayer's shoulders for all this debt, and then don't even start to add the other costs this administration placed on the people of the nation.

The fact is that the entire political process is a political projection center; not projections of who's going to win elections, but projections of who people are at their worst against the opposition. As a member of the DNC, and having done work for the other side, I can see that most Democrats who care so much about people "doing their part" (bad English) really don't enjoy doing their "part" themselves. Republicans who are so fierce against Government handouts are more than willing to give to their party, while Democrats who claim the banner of altruism really mean that other people should do the parts, not themselves. I hear it every day summed perfectly in the line : "I can't help today but thank you so much for what you're doing." If you're on your feet in a public place at two thirty on a Wednesday and you're a Democrat, you have time to stop for a measly canvasser who's busting his or her own ass just to see some change, whether it's in his or her pocket or in his or her White House, bar none.

As for the projection, the Republican party railed against Socialism in all its forms for so long that it finally adopted its inherent and central philosophy. Corporatism and Socialism are the same, the same, the same, the same philosophy. In the news today, the government siezed Washington Mutual bank (what a name of a company to get siezed) and sold its accounts to JP Morgan Chase bank, presumably with nothing off the top, making me wonder who in the fed is invested in Morgan Chase, because there was no bidding on these accounts I believe. Either way, it's time for us all to get shovels; we're either about to dig until we spark the spade on the rock of truth, or we're punching a grave large enough for this country to fit into.