The Way Things Are Right Now

I've got a big problem with the media and the people who listen/watch/read what they have to say. The media for the fear they push, the people for shutting down and buying into it. Blinders aren't really going to help us right now.

What brought this post about? Well, you have the speculators in the stock market, trying as hard as they can to bankrupt the country so they can get their way, the media saying, "hey, maybe they're right," and segments of the public believing it all. Then, there was the person I met who applied for a permit to conceal and carry because he thinks it's going to get that bad. In 2009? In the United States of America? I'd say one of the many problems of the past eight years is that the people were allowed to give up faith in their country - being told faith in an Administration or God would do just as well.

Now, conservatives will say that they have faith in the country, the Democrats just don't love "their" country enough to save it. The problem right there isn't a battle between conservatives and Democrats, it's the lack of a Republican voice, but conservatives will battle as hard as they can to make sure there isn't one.

Are people conservative? Sure. Are they conservative in the ways the Founding Fathers and Documents prescribe? Of course not. Did the definition change? No, people did. Believe it or not, that's possible, and happens over time.

So, what's happening? We ignored things that were set in motion years ago, and let them go unchecked until it was too late. We had Chuck Hagel back in 2005 trying to tear Fannie and Freddie apart and rebuild them, and they hired a lobbying firm to stop it! It became so bad, that you could get out of jail with a dollar in your pocket, and own 6 houses by the end of the week. Sure, language can taint validity, but read that last sentence again, and try not to say What the Fuck!

This could have happened to give the appearance of a strong economy, i.e., look at all the houses being sold, and the price!, or, because of some foreign idea to our country, a socialist ideal that everyone deserves a home. First, that has never been an idea in our country, that everyone deserves a home. Second, the only government involvement in this was to sit off to the side and watch. This whole situation was caused by greedy morons. Morons to the point that the only reasonable explanation for them not understanding what was happening is that they received their G.E.Ds, a correspondence course on home lending, and were given a job.

After the collapse of the home lending market, the banks fell. Bailout out the banks? Why!?! Here's how we should determine whether to bailout a bank or not: calculate the FDIC insurance the account holders would receive, and, if that's less than bailing the bank out, let it fall, if it's more than the bank asks for, allow it. There are few guarantees in this country, and a continuously operating business of bank has never, ever been one.

Then, we have the idiots at AIG. Insurance = risk. Catastrophy = $$$$. It was a catastrophy, you're done. That's it.

At this point, we have a government trying new things to try and save our business system from collapse. Please, notice that I didn't say "our country" or "our economy." Along with this, we have people hoping they fail, and people who listen and believe those people. Excuse me, do you realize what the hell you're saying right there?

Go ahead, listen to the talk radio doomsday predictions, listen to the TV news shows telling you how bad investing is right now, read about money being spent, and what it's being spent on. Just know that by doing that, you're not helping. A country, any country, does not run without movement, and what we have right now is a complete lack of movement. We either start moving now, or we watch the greatest nation ever created dissolve into something inferior - all because of inaction, negativism, and an epidemic of idiocy.