Alright, so now we know! It's been said that the country doesn't like uncertainty, well - things are becoming clear now.
All you little girls better take your dollies and run home now�cause this is a game that only the strong will survive.
Attitudes have to start changing here in the land of plenty. We've got to understand that it's not always going to be easy, it's not gonna be comfortable all the time, it might even be hard!
Yes,�I'm pissed off! I don't deserve this trouble at my door. I've been responsible, I've done the right thing, I've conserved, I've saved, I've prepared for the future with discipline. I've paid my dues along the way and now it seems I'll be expected to pay someone else's dues!
How embarassing it is to be American these days. I imagine the rest of the world laughing up their sleeves as they watch the "greedy, fat, self-serving, capitalists" suffer. Gee, wonder if it's a good time for an attack?
sick is all i can say today sick of the deppressing news ,sick of worrying how to pay the bills ,sick of hearing about this so called credit crunch .well how about we bring back robin hood he took from the rich and gave to the poor .think thats what we need right now the every day hard working family are the ones who suffer in the long run so how about the mps and all the heads of the banks and so on donate money into the ecconomy that they have sent down the toilet instead of us paying for them it;s about time they payed for their own mistakes .after all we did'nt let northern rock go down they did but yet again we suffer . well thats my rant for the day i'm going before i say somthing that might get me in trouble .
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Not the most exciting weekend I've ever had but very relaxed. Elias came up from Georgia as usual, but this time he had some good news. He's found a job! A restaurant is reopening in Clarksville and he's one of two cooks that has been hired so far. He starts work today. Unfortunately that means I'll probably be seeing less of him, but on�the other hand maybe he can start saving for our trip this coming June. So what did we do on his last weekend up for a while? Not much. We went looking for an old video game we were wanting to try and visited the bookstore. We spent most of the time reading our aquisitions and drinking beer. As I said not the most exciting weekend, but not too bad either.
About the trip this June. I'm hoping to start saving in earnest beginning in October. Hopefully I can put away at least $400 a month. That will put me at around $4000 come June.�Things will still be a little tight on the trail because�I will have to pay for my car, storage space and student loans while I'm gone, but that amount will definitely put the trip in the "I'm going"�category. It would be nice if I could, ya know, win the lottery or something. If I did I'd help Elias and Adam out. Adam especially. His job barely pays minimum wage. And, of course, everybody still needs to get their equipment.
Most recently, I'm looking for a large map that I can put up from floor to cieling that shows the trail towns and possibly the shelters along the way. I figure it'd be a great visual aid for planning when and where we will stop and where we can restock our food supplies. Plus it'd be a great motivator just to see the shear length of the trail.
I've been rereading the Dresden novels. There is just something about them that I really, really like. So that's been taking up a lot of my time. Elias doesn't see how I can read for hour upon hour. I'm not really sure either, except that when I read everything else just kind of fuzzes out. I don't really register hunger, pain, or discomfort. I tend to move around a lot but it's kind of like my body is on autopilot. And woe betide the one who interrupts me during an exciting section in the novel! I remember chasing my brothers around the house in a fury because they interrupted my reading. LOL!
Anyways, slow weekend. Feels strange to be back at work. Later!
I have to say i have never felt so lonley in all my life I feel as though i'm living ground hog day .every day the same slowley going insane .i cant stand to watch the news any more like i need them to keep telling me the country is in the shit and no one has any money well welcome to my world the mps wouldn't know where to start if they had to live on income as low as ours and yet they dont do anything to help the every day working family the goverment seem to just expect the tax payers to pick up the bill for the allmighty cock up they have allowed to be created.then they sit in there warm homes paid for by us and tell us to cut how much we spend on food and heat lets see what they would do if some one pulled the rug from under there feet lets see them work for minimum wage and i bet you would see the whole lot of them cry out it cant be done so i say stuff the lot of them thanks for making a crap life even worse and i hope santa brings you spoilt kids a bag of crap and you can allways tell them well dear blame gordon brown the one no one voted for the one no one wants and the one who has no idea how to save our country from going down the toilet well done gordon hope you never get back into power and heres to a vote of no confidance in you ,you pathetic little man .
Back in college hectic as hell.. but oh well would i want it any other way! expect to hear less from me but ill pop my head in from tiime to time
As a human being with (perhaps above?) average intelligence, I am of course concerned about the economic issues facing the Nation in which I live, and the Nation that I love.
I have been a reader of history and economics for a while.� Not because of my job, but because it interests me.� I'm an Engineer, and my natural talents lie in problem solving, problem resolution, and what we call "root cause analysis".� That is to say that when a problem is discovered on a computer system or network, it is my job to not only fix the problem, but to figure out what caused the problem and to prevent it from ever happening again in the future.� To that end, I say this to you:
The first step in finding any solution, is to identify the problem.
Every day I pay attention to what people in our Government say and how people in our Government are approaching this issue that has been fabricated by the Banking Cartels on C-SPAN.� Our inept "Leaders" can't even identify the problem, and they are proposing a solution that is bad for This Nation and bad for We The People!
First, read just the first section of this bailout VERY closely, and try to follow along with me:
Title I - Troubled Assets Relief Program:
Sec. 101. Purchases of Troubled Assets
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(e) Preventing Unjust Enrichment. - In Making Purchases under the authority of the Act, the Secretary [Paulson - Former CEO of Goldman Sachs...Can you say 'PART OF THE PROBLEM?'] shall take such steps as may be necessary to prevent unjust enrichment of financial institutions participating in a program established under this section, including by preventing the sale of a troubled asset to the Secretary at a higher price than what the seller paid ot purchase the asset.� This subsection does not apply to troubled assed acquired in a merger or acquisition, or a purchase of assets from a financial institution in conservatorship or receivership, or that has initiated bankruptcy proceedings under title 11, United States Code.
So let me get this straight.
The (privately owned) Federal Reserve Bank (with Assistance from the Congress and President of the United States), kept interest rates artificially low and encouraged a wild speculation/real-estate bubble by lending money to people who could not afford it.
You people.� You know who you are.� You bastards who make $35,000USD/yr and think you're on top of the world.� Charging everything on credit cards, driving a $45,000 Infinity and living in a $500,000 McMansion, who are losing your jobs and unable to pay your bills.� You're the cause of this problem.� You and the Banking Cartels.
That means YOU should be the people to suffer for it.� Not the rest of us.
What this section ALONE, (this is just the first fucking section), what this section does is this:
You bought an over-priced McMansion on a $500,000 loan.
You can't pay for it, so the Lender who financed it is forced to seize the asset.
Now the the Lender has this asset and they have to sell it.� But they have a LOT of assets and nobody is left to buy the assets at the inflated price.
So they have to sell it for less, and thus they lose money on the deal and thus fail because they have lost entirely too much at this point.
Now when they fail, someone bigger like JP Morgan will swoop in and buy up those Assets at "firesale price".� I.E. Pennies on the Dollar.�
Well now the Congress has given the (privately owned) Federal Reserve Bank the authority to put on the tab of We The people, any mortgage or essentially ANYTHING that they deem necessary to keep a bank from failing...
And if what is being charged was gotten through a merger....(purchased for pennies on the dollar), that the ailing bank can dump it on the TAXPAYER for the amount of what the IDIOT borrowed or even MORE.
So they pretend to stop them from making excess profits, yet give them implicit authority to do JUST THAT in the next goddamn sentence.
Why is anyone still listening to these assclowns?