This Perfect Day

Yesterday I felt like I was turning into a Republican. It was amazing to see our U.S. Representatives finally stand up for “We the People”. If it weren’t for the few courageous left leaning Democratic representatives we have in the House, and a huge showing by the Republicans of the House, you and I would have given 700 billion dollars to the richest people in the world, while simultaneously solving nothing.

I have expressed a growing disdain for “Impeachment is off the table” Pelosi and her severe case of either “lack of spine” or ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing”. I have become extremely bitter about this bailout, as well as the presidential race and actually feel like I am morphing into something like Rush Limbaugh. Watching the left wing of our political process ignore their constituents and vote for this awful bill damn near made me think the Republicans may be the answer.

Yet, in a very non-Republican way, I have been trying to convince friends and family, over the last few days, that if the government is going to be giving out huge sums of money, they ought to help homeowners, who are being crushed by the crazed behavior of the corporate elite. If everyone who “owns” a home suddenly and actually owned their home and didn’t have to make their monthly mortgage payment, the middle class would be flush with cash, and if there were stipulations on how that new found freedom must be spent for local job creation, we may be in for a new golden age, instead of a collapse.

Like most of my ideas, thinking back I find them naive or idealistic, or both. Just when I am losing faith in myself, that remarkable man, who ends up being the butt of so many cruel jokes, Dennis Kucinich, shows up on TV to answer the charges the media and the politicians have been making all day. After a day of hearing tv pundits claim that I do not understand the ramifications of the bill, the necessity of the bailout, or just being considered “uneducated” on the issue, Kucinich appeared on the Rachel Maddow show tonight to give a clearer explanation of my own thoughts, while dispelling the false charges of the corporate media.

Kucinich, one of a handful of Democrats to vote against the Bailout Bill, spoke with a profound conviction and a spirit emboldened by the bipartisan rejection of the bill. Going back to the New Deal, Kucinich reminded Americans that we have been through this before, and that the solutions of the past are ready to be retrieved, like the post-Depression Homeowners Loan Corporation.

Representative Kucinich explained how the bailout would work, with taxpayers borrowing 700 billion from the bank, in order to give that money to the bank, in a Ponzi scheme that makes one question reality. To clarify and confuse, here is a quote from Kucinich yesterday, September 29, 2008:

“The taxpayers loan money to the banks. But the taxpayers do not have the money. So we have to borrow it from the banks to give it back to the banks. But the banks do not have the money to loan to the government. So they create it into existence (through a mechanism called fractional reserve) and then loan it to us, at interest, so we can then give it back to them.”

Over the course of the short interview, Kucinich destroys the myth of top down economics and calls for a reversal. By handing money to the same speculators who caused this problem to begin with, he points out, using taxpayer money to insure against risk, we will only get more speculation and deeper in debt. Here is the video:

September 30th, 2008 | Category: Politics and Religion! | Leave a comment

I’m not quite sure why Americans have been so complacent since the “Revolutionary” days. People look back on the 1960’s and think things were different then, as if the government listened to them. The last “revolution” in this country was when the rich white dudes here stole this land from their British bosses and the people who lived here before them.

Now those same (well, at least the same families) people are in the process of stealing 700 billion dollars from us, you and me, the collective we, and none of us are batting an eye. Even as they threaten us, most of us are too lazy to even blog about it. It’s a sad state of affairs, and the French are laughing.

The last time someone in France proposed raising the bus fee by 35 cents there were riots in the street. Americans don’t even flinch when their own government flies, or allows the flight of, two jet liners, full of American citizens, into the two tallest buildings in Manhattan, then passes the broadest, strictest, least American, anti-Constitutional legislation since the Alien and Sedition Act, starts two illegal wars, tortures people in violation of international treaties, while violating too many other international treaties for me to mention them here, then holds the nations’ economy for a hefty ransom of 700 Billion Dollars.

In France, a sandwich tax would bring down the government, here, you have to pay for your own rape kit. Paulson was the head of Goldman Sachs when they raped Montana of its own power supply and coal reserves in the 1990’s, Why would I think he would do less to America? Montana has had to pay for her own rape kit ever since.

So, what is it? Why are Americans so complacent? Is it apathy? Stupidity? Are we all so happy and warm with our I-Pods and E-Machines that we just don’t even know what’s happening outside of our doors? I bet the French would be demanding the bail-out of the people who have to pay these companies their mortgage payments! Trickle down might actually work if the middle class was suddenly freed from their slavery to these greedy bastards.

When you think of the “Great Financial Crisis” of 2008, what comes to mind? Paulson and his genius plan to shower money on those who have been robbing us blind for 200 plus years? Maybe McCain rushing back to Washington, D.C. to solve the crisis, to keep us from knowing it has been his friends that caused this, and on a side note, that we should give them a 700 BILLION DOLLAR bonus? Or Barack Obama, letting it slide to see what advantage he might gain from this. There is not a politician out there who cares enough about us to tell us the truth about what is happening. Well, there is Ralph Nader, but no one is ever going to listen to him (though we would not be in this place if people had just voted for him like they wanted to).

I guess we really do deserve the government we get. We allow “third” parties to get excluded from debates, never care that the corporate press fails to address issues of importance from any side but the two corporate sides, and allow real voters to be excluded from voting based on lies built up through laws passed by our own government. We allow them to tell us what to think, they tell us third parties are spoilers, they tell us we need to pay up to get our economy back. I think we are all idiots. We should just give them all of our money, homes, cars, jewelry and children now. They will take them all from us slowly, anyway…we should just be done with it. Perhaps a mass suicide in America would awaken the world to the horrible parody of freedom we have become. What is there to live for if the government you “have to” choose is so corrupt that it steals everything worth living for away?

See, if I were in France, I would have the self-respect to know when my government is fucking with me. If my government lowered taxes for 8 years, spent more than any previous administration, started two very expensive wars, then asked me for SEVEN HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS after years of telling me poor kids should not get help, veterans don’t need medical care, schools need to get by on less and that health care is a luxury we cannot afford, I would know it was time to bring out the guillotine. Any government that abused its citizens in this way would be crushed.

But I am an American, and I am complacent. I see no recourse that would not bring shame on my family in the eyes of the rest of you. I have tried protest, only to see the State line up against me in protection of the corporation cutting the last of the giant redwoods, I have tried education, only to see the State cut funding for those who could one day be smart enough to lead us…what else is there aside from violence?

I am a pacifist, I am a human who believes there is a better way to live in this world. While that is true, I am becoming more and more aware that there is a sub-species of human who feed off the rest of us, and like a parasitic infection, must be removed to save the life of the host. I guess the American cure for this type of parasitic infection might be tar and feathers, and while the guillotine seems a might more humane, a revolt with the latter might suit these bastards fine.

Once they are gone we can build a society worth living in, one that values people who actually do something worthwhile.

September 26th, 2008 | Tags: bail-out, bailout, Bush, Cheney, democrats, financial crisis, Paulson, republicans, thieves | Category: Politics and Religion! | Leave a comment