Did you know that you have started 49 threads in this group Mk?
Hell I have only started 8
I better get on it and I will. I have much to say as soon as I get back from picking up my Hurricane liquor. Can't have a kick-azz storm on TV with no treats.
Oh the death and destruction of another city. What will Halliburton do????? So much money ....so little time.
I actually heard some religious nut job saying that Rita was going after the gays in TX that made it out of LA alive.
Boy god must really hate gays. Speaking of which ....we are all pretty much agreed that Santorum is gay right? Oh and I think judge Roberts might be also. Never marrried until 41? Two adopted children?
Anyone see O'Reilly blowup @ Donahue? Every time I see that prick he gets more and more like Rush. No Spin Zone.....HAHAHA....They should call it No Logic Zone.
Anyone care to estimate the % gas is going to go up after Rita kicks the crud out of 73% of our domestic oil production? I'm thinking 50% increase to start with. That should pretty much devastate the 15-25k a yr families. Not to mention the already tattered Public School budget. Sorry folks can't afford to gas the buses, you will have to drive them yourselves. In cars and trucks they can't afford to fill already. Truckers pulling off the road....do we have problems right now or what?
1. War on "a feeling" 225 Billion
2. War against the impoverished on a battlefield they called New Orleans. 250 Billion
3. Keeping all the relatives and honest white folk out of harms way....yet to be determined.
4. Recovery of impacted oil refineries....I unno
5. Housing bubble that could burst at anytime causing a fiscal disaster the likes the country has not seen since the crash.
6. At a point when debt is at it's highest "outside" the country, we pass the credit reform act ....effectively sticking it to the lower middle class once again.
7. Public support for our government is at an all time low....thank god
8. The power of the dollar is being pegged by the Chinese and the Euro as the petrodollar fades into the history books.
9. Silver and Gold are at an all time high......damn wish I had money for investments, but gas and the cost of living
10. I think I would rather live in Italy or Spain at this point.
Bottom line is WHOA not sure we are going to pull through this one folks. This could be the Winter of Discontent. Like things the way they are now or not, there is a wind of change a blowin....@ about 155 miles an hour.
Spain is lovely this time of year. I'm going somewhere soon..that much I know. Otter, 49 threads..really...hmmm....but they are good threads...sorry..I'm not doing any work right now.
I would say a regime change is deffinantly in order. Our government has failed us on every level. They continue to take the working man for granted, they continue to ignore our every need. They look out for there corporations to make money. My friend who is an accountant was over the other day and reported that the in the last quarter the major oil company's reported record setting profits. I wouldn't mind being part of the privlaged part of America who actually has money to invest 'cause there is plenty of money to be made on the backs of poor people right now. I'm about ready to take up arms against this facist government soon. Someone needs to find Zack DelaRocha and let him know the time has come to take the power back by force because it's not going to come from Polytricks. There are no politics in hunger and poverty. I turned to CNN the other day and saw at the bottom off the screen the phrase "hurricane politics". What a joke, there are no politics in the safety of your countries citizens.
It's not a surprise to me that people are becoming more and more enraged by the way our government is performing and who they cater to more. I've been reading an interesting book called Democracy For The Few. It has shed tremendous light on the government and capitalism and how they are undoably intertwined, who is benefitting from the relationship and how large the disparity between rich and poor actually is. Let me explain it in this way; if we stacked children's blocks on top of each other to illustrate the size of America's wealth, it would be the size of the Effiel Tower. Now, if each row of blocks represented just $1000, all of us would be within a yard of the ground. The top 1% of America maintain the rest. To me, this is incredibly disturbing and it only gets worse for those in the lower and middle classes as corporations continue to shape the economic infrastructure of the world.
I personally believe that America has been showing a wearing down of the conservative coat. They feel that it has cost too much money, many people have died who shouldn't have, the country has unfortunately been in a spiral of no direction, more people are moving to poverty, big business is reaping more profit and more people can't afford healthcare and now have found it difficult to even pay for the gasoline they use to get to the two or three jobs they work. So I feel, as I said on a personal level that America is beginning to see that the conservative agenda have lost all their arguments of fiscal responsibility and even strict constructionism which has always been opposed to reinterpreting the Constitution; I don't think a gay marriage ban for example, is really reading the originality of the Constitution. I also believe that with all this payment toward wars and hurricanes, Americans really wouldn't mind raising taxes to pay for this so we don't end up sticking the bill to later administrations and Americans down the road. It is really hurting our people economically to continually borrow money from foreign governments to pay for our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. Fiscal conservatism for this party is out the window and Democrats are going to seize on that trait.
I think if we distributed tax money properly there would be no need to raise taxes, maybe we could even stop taking taxes from some who make less than a certain amount a year, at least 20.000 or something. I think this might be a start to getting some people out of poverty, but just a small step.