Comments | anahata56: Is it me?

anahata56

Is it me?

Mar 08, 2009 17:38

People are looking at Wall Street crashing all around them, and banks failing, and every financial institution in America going BOOM, and everyone is screaming, "OH, it's OBAMA!! It's OBAMA that's doing this!!"

Well, can I tell you something?

It probably IS Obama doing this.

But the reason why all of these things are happening, in my not so ( Read more... )

politics, economy

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wolfette March 8 2009, 21:52:02 UTC

the banks fell over and the stock market started to tank on GWB's watch - didn't they notice that?

styggian_nights March 8 2009, 21:58:35 UTC

Pffft, course not, he's a rich white boy that can do no wrong.

anahata56 March 8 2009, 22:04:14 UTC

See, and this is another thing I can't figure out.

The economy started to tank in September--long before Obama was even elected!

The American people seem to recall that small fact, as the greater majority of them understand that this is a problem that Obama inherited.

But somehow this is an aspect of the problem that the Rethuglicans and the press seem to somehow overlook.

eiredrake March 8 2009, 22:52:13 UTC

Actually the economy started to tank in 2003. Remember Bush's notion that he 'inherited a recession'? That's what he was talking about, of course being a Bush, a Republican and a neo-conservative he blamed it all on Clinton even though it was three years after Clinton left office.

The whole reason these 'people' are blaming Obama is because he's a convenient swarthy boogie man to blame all their fears and anxieties on. If anyone really bothered to look they'd be pointing figures at extremely rich, be-suited white guys. Pretty much like with any problem - follow the money and eventually you'll find a white guy in a suit laughing his ass off all the way to the bank.

siliconshaman March 8 2009, 21:57:10 UTC

Have I, or have I not, said all along that the one sure way of getting rid of the two-legged roaches is to burn it all down and start over?!

Well, Wall street is burning baby and it's a beautiful thing.

anahata56 March 8 2009, 22:00:48 UTC

See, that's what I'm thinking.

If something is irretrievably broken, beyond all half-assed patching and bandaging, it's the only thing that can happen.

My retirement is in the shitter, I'll not lie to you. But I don't see this as being altogether bad.

siliconshaman March 8 2009, 22:25:03 UTC

Yup, pretty much what I've said all along... time to kick back and watch the pretty flames, because this BBQ has only just got going.

You think it's only Wall St that's going to burn? What about all those other companies with the smiling, charming sociopaths in charge? then there's the local, state and Federal governments, with similar greed-heads, non-violent sociopaths, narcissists and so on...

Time to break out the s'mores and enjoy the party, because it's all going to go up in flames, one way or another.

eiredrake March 8 2009, 22:53:11 UTC

It'd be more beautiful if the rest of us weren't going to have to suffer because of it and if AIG weren't getting another 20-30 billion dollars of my tax money to prop up their industry that should have already failed.

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silkensteel March 9 2009, 02:58:07 UTC

Valuable lessons:

No government is forever.

No one KIND of government is forever.

No Society is forever.

No civilization is forever.

I learned these lessons pretty young - you do, if you're a Jewish kid in a yeshiva and you pay attention to Who Survived And Why.

And the harshest lesson - that got me almost Didn't Get Born - was my grandfather insisting that the Nazis weren't going to get THAT bad, and denying my mom and her first husband permission to escape with the young Zionist hoodlums.

Right now, you know what concerns me? That someone will come up with some "fix" that will make the deck chairs even more prettily aligned. That someone will find the perfectly colored coat of paint to hide the damage, and things will "fix" for another decade, and then the crash will come back uglier and more destructive than was even thought of now.

siliconshaman March 9 2009, 13:19:05 UTC

It's such a mess this time around because that's what they've been doing since about the 90's.

You learn these things as an archaeologist and a biologist too..

moropus March 10 2009, 00:12:30 UTC

Flushing out the rats is a dirty job. I would not like to be the head rat catcher right now. I feel sorry for Obama having to take the heat on him and respect him for not engaging in finger pointing. (Or at least I've been too busy to catch him at it.)

The ship is sinking and the rats are fleeing. I'm amused that NY is investigating a few rats. (Google it.) Even if my retirement fund is in the crapper.