To Label What's Going On In D.C. This Week a "Power-Grab" Would Imply That It's In Any Way Difficult

[senselessviolnz]

I find it ironic that so many people who are all in a huff about the AIG thing have pretty consistently staked out an anti-free-market position, given that their "outrage" is a wholly manufactured consumer product. It's a lesson for people like me, who would normally posit the belief that government doesn't make anything. This, of course, is untrue

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[imrygels_ho]

i have mixed feelings about the bailouts - mostly i think, "fuck them if they can't keep their shit together. it's sink or swim in this country as far as businesses go." then i also think of how fucked up things could possibly get if we just let all these huge-ass business take a nose-dive. but then i also think, why the fuck do these assholes have so much sway that their failure could have such sucky repercussions? but then deregulation never works as seen by the fact that we only have one "choice" for our tv services if we don't want to have a satellite dish (and only one "choice" for that too even if we did). basicaly, it's all bullshit.

i voted for obama, but i don't have these retarded unrealistic expectations that so many others seem to. i'll only know if it was worth it four years from now. no single group is responsible for the economy: the lenders used underhanded tactics, but the lendees were too stupid to realize their own limitations. there was a news story about a lady who had refinanced her home overy single year for like 7 years or some shit because the bank just kept offering her to do it. the news was like "boo on you evil bank", but i thought "wtf lady?! did you really think that was a good idea? are you shitting me?" we can't blame politicians or financial institutions for our own stupidity.

and as far as the aig stuff goes? people should just shut the hell up about that. the government had all the information about it months beforehand and no one bothered to really take a look until it was too late because it's the government and they are often morons - it's part of being a politician regardless of party affilliation. i think the real issue is the concept of contractually guaranteed bonuses that are not dependent on performance - i know if i don't do well at work i don't get a raise. otherwise, yeah it sucks but stfu already you buncha whiney bitchiz - chalk it up to a lesson learned and pay more fucking attention the next time you decide to hand out wads of cash to a bunch of rich retards. boo fucking hoo.

[explodingalice]

What she said.

Essentially, Geena, I'm tired of this shit I hear from you (not directed specifically at me, but still) that seems to imply that I voted for Obama because I thought he was going to fix all of our problems in the first 30 days and be perfect and awesome and mail me some goddamn jelly beans or something. Or that I might've voted for John McCain for the same reason. Give me some fucking credit. Just because we may have different political views, doesn't in any way mean you can demean my intelligence with these insinuations or the resulting assumption that I somehow "deserve it" for making what I felt was a good choice given all available options.

I had to go back through all of my journal entries on the subject to see if I could find one where I in any way gave the impression that I thought this man the infallible solution to all of our nation's woes. Couldn't find one. The least rational ones I posted (the ones where I was going mostly with emotion) had to do with the fact that we as a nation did something we had never done before and was a long time coming, racially speaking. And I would have felt that way no matter who I had voted for if he had won.

[imrygels_ho]

plus, let's be honest here - the libertarian candidate wouldn't have done any better or worse than obama has or mccain would have. to think that a libertarian or any other third part who may have won could somehow pull rainbows and puppies out of his/her ass any better than a democrat or republican is delusional. the president is limited by checks and balances just as the senate and house and court are and every poilitician, regardless of political affiliation, has his or her own agenda that sometimes gets in the way of good stuff (tacking on stuff to bills that inevitably prevent them from being passed and so forth). it's how politics works, that WHY it's called politics. no single person be she/he libertarian, communist, democrat, green , republican, etc etc can magically fix all our problems in four years let alone in two months. i'm happy with what our current president has done so far in terms of stem cell research and a few other things. i DON'T expect to be happy with everything he does and unless he suddenly decides to start a holocaust and locking up all people who listen to country music and make lampshades out of bunny skins, i don't honestly expect to be terribly disappointed either. in the end, nobody's perfect, not even libertarians (despite what rod and geena would have us think), and i maintain that anyone who thinks so is delusional, regardless of political beliefs or party affiliation.