Actually it’s more like it needs a tune-up, and rings, and an air filter, and a radiator, and maybe a new transmission and a new suspension.
So I’m doing this realigning thing and trying to be active and not avoid things and still not realizing that I am just a bit delusional about this whole thing.
I did a little bit more, trying to get into new situations and do more things and along the way I didn’t pay enough attention to what I was doing with the rest of my time and energy.
As my wife pointed out I don’t sleep. I wake up anywhere from 6 to 12 times a night. I don’t get enough hours or enough rest. And my recovery time from exertion is not any better than it was.
Which is why it shouldn’t surprise me that when I did a few things more than maybe I should have I got sick. Yep, I’m sick again. Sick in June and now sick in August.
So time for more considering things and working out some more details on how to take things in moderation. And as my wife says give myself time to recover. I imagine that this is just a way to force me to lay low for a while. One cancelled doctor appointment – that I could have really used – so far. Mostly kept quiet today and I’ll try for the same tomorrow.
When my head clears, rather, when my mind clears, after this cold, I will examine how best to proceed. Until then, rest. And one of these days I’ll post some actual details about what I am doing.
Well, at least I got to experience an earthquake, and maybe now (another) hurricane.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Earthquake
As I said elsewhere, the thing about that earthquake was that there were workers pruning trees around the power lines across the street and I thought that they had either snagged the line to the house or had somehow dropped the bucket from the truck on our roof. Either was unlikely to make the house shake the way it did but those were the immediate possibilities.
There are a lot of people talking about how this was not a very big earthquake. It wasn’t. But the ground around here is one big rock and it transmits the energy very well. When a truck hits a bump two miles away the house shakes. Also, houses in my part of the country were not built with earthquakes in mind. My house is old, and though it is pretty solid, it wasn’t meant to endure this sort of thing.
The house shook, the walls undulated, the floor was bouncing up and down and the roof was shaking in rolling waves. Furniture shook, shelves were swaying back and forth and things on the walls were banging about.
Maybe 5.9 isn’t a really big earthquake, but it moved a lot of things around here. Not knowing it was an earthquake I thought something had hit the house and was rolling around on the roof – and somehow making the shelves I was standing next to shake back and forth by almost a foot while I literally bounced up and down as the floor moved. I was outside checking the condition of the house before I knew it was an earthquake and things were still swaying.
As far as I know we’re fine – no apparent damage – but there are reasons to be concerned about this and not make light of it just because those stupid easterners aren’t used to earthquakes. It’s because this is rare that it is something to think about. The last earthquake of this magnitude in the east was in the 19th century. Cities built in the 20th century aren’t made to stand up to that.
Now that it’s over we’ll hear all the jokes. Apparently no one was hurt, but there was damage to buildings and I was worried about the integrity of my own house. I am thinking about getting someone out to inspect the place. It may not seem like that big a deal to some people, but think about your own house being subjected to more stress than it was built to withstand. All things are relative and this was a relatively big deal.
There are a lot of people talking about how this was not a very big earthquake. It wasn’t. But the ground around here is one big rock and it transmits the energy very well. When a truck hits a bump two miles away the house shakes. Also, houses in my part of the country were not built with earthquakes in mind. My house is old, and though it is pretty solid, it wasn’t meant to endure this sort of thing.
The house shook, the walls undulated, the floor was bouncing up and down and the roof was shaking in rolling waves. Furniture shook, shelves were swaying back and forth and things on the walls were banging about.
Maybe 5.9 isn’t a really big earthquake, but it moved a lot of things around here. Not knowing it was an earthquake I thought something had hit the house and was rolling around on the roof – and somehow making the shelves I was standing next to shake back and forth by almost a foot while I literally bounced up and down as the floor moved. I was outside checking the condition of the house before I knew it was an earthquake and things were still swaying.
As far as I know we’re fine – no apparent damage – but there are reasons to be concerned about this and not make light of it just because those stupid easterners aren’t used to earthquakes. It’s because this is rare that it is something to think about. The last earthquake of this magnitude in the east was in the 19th century. Cities built in the 20th century aren’t made to stand up to that.
Now that it’s over we’ll hear all the jokes. Apparently no one was hurt, but there was damage to buildings and I was worried about the integrity of my own house. I am thinking about getting someone out to inspect the place. It may not seem like that big a deal to some people, but think about your own house being subjected to more stress than it was built to withstand. All things are relative and this was a relatively big deal.
Friday, August 12, 2011
There goes another green one right now
That buying a Studebaker Commander concept (see previous post) is a long term project. There is no instant gratification here, in fact, that’s pretty much the opposite of what this is all about.
It’s not that I’m denying what is wrong with me. I may do that to myself at times, or try to, but this isn’t one of them. And I don’t just mean working around my limitations, that’s a part of daily life. This is about trying things that might seem a bit crazy to try, things I might reasonably think I can’t do anymore and that may actually be beyond my abilities these days.
Big words, I know, and it remains to be seen how I manage.
I want to make sure that I don’t let whatever deficits I have get in the way where they shouldn’t. After all, I may not be able to do everything, but that doesn’t mean I can’t do anything. There must be things that I can do, even things that I can be good at. I need to find what they are.
I need to look for the things that I can do in spite of what is wrong with me, however small. Maybe I won’t be as accomplished as I may have once been able to be, but I can still be as accomplished as possible. I am always trying to get back to where I was or get to the point where I can lead a normal life, but I have pushed aside things that are beyond that.
I have neglected to dream about things that are more than necessary.
I need to dream.
It’s not that I’m denying what is wrong with me. I may do that to myself at times, or try to, but this isn’t one of them. And I don’t just mean working around my limitations, that’s a part of daily life. This is about trying things that might seem a bit crazy to try, things I might reasonably think I can’t do anymore and that may actually be beyond my abilities these days.
Big words, I know, and it remains to be seen how I manage.
I want to make sure that I don’t let whatever deficits I have get in the way where they shouldn’t. After all, I may not be able to do everything, but that doesn’t mean I can’t do anything. There must be things that I can do, even things that I can be good at. I need to find what they are.
I need to look for the things that I can do in spite of what is wrong with me, however small. Maybe I won’t be as accomplished as I may have once been able to be, but I can still be as accomplished as possible. I am always trying to get back to where I was or get to the point where I can lead a normal life, but I have pushed aside things that are beyond that.
I have neglected to dream about things that are more than necessary.
I need to dream.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
A bear in his natural habitat
You know how when you buy a car, or anything really, you start to see all of the things just like it all around you? Once you buy a green Studebaker Commander everyone seems to be driving one.
Well, I decided not to let any limitations I have stop me from trying to do new things. So naturally I’ve been hearing a lot of things that relate to that. Suddenly I am hearing or reading things about people (superficially) like me or things about various aspects of recovery or doing better with what you have.
While some of it is little more than marketing, some of it actually resonates with me. I am trying to take it all in as it comes.
Well, I decided not to let any limitations I have stop me from trying to do new things. So naturally I’ve been hearing a lot of things that relate to that. Suddenly I am hearing or reading things about people (superficially) like me or things about various aspects of recovery or doing better with what you have.
While some of it is little more than marketing, some of it actually resonates with me. I am trying to take it all in as it comes.
It’s only a burden if you make it one
All right, let’s just set aside the fact that we can eliminate the debt with some modest increases in taxes.
One of the favorite plaints is that we simply cannot leave this horrible debt for our grandchildren to pay.
Who said our grandchildren have to pay it?
No one today is willing to pay it, and we still have a functioning country. We’ve had debt since the founding of this nation. So who said it is ever going to be paid off? Sure, we pay our bills as they come due, and then we incur more debt. Countries work that way.
This is a bogus complaint. The debt is there, it would be nice if it wasn’t, but it need not be a crushing burden for any generation. If we wanted it to the government could borrow a lot of money really cheap right now and reduce interest payments. No one ever talks alternatives. It’s always just a flat – OHMYGODTHEDEBTISBAD – usually from people who didn’t care about the debt when their guy was in the White House. It’s just an excuse to do things that don’t really help the debt at all.
Yes, our nation has a debt. We can pay it off – or not.
That’s really the truth of the matter.
One of the favorite plaints is that we simply cannot leave this horrible debt for our grandchildren to pay.
Who said our grandchildren have to pay it?
No one today is willing to pay it, and we still have a functioning country. We’ve had debt since the founding of this nation. So who said it is ever going to be paid off? Sure, we pay our bills as they come due, and then we incur more debt. Countries work that way.
This is a bogus complaint. The debt is there, it would be nice if it wasn’t, but it need not be a crushing burden for any generation. If we wanted it to the government could borrow a lot of money really cheap right now and reduce interest payments. No one ever talks alternatives. It’s always just a flat – OHMYGODTHEDEBTISBAD – usually from people who didn’t care about the debt when their guy was in the White House. It’s just an excuse to do things that don’t really help the debt at all.
Yes, our nation has a debt. We can pay it off – or not.
That’s really the truth of the matter.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
I wish I could do fake video
I want to take that AT&T commercial where the young guy talks to the old guy in the Italian village and his phone translates:
‘Excuse me. My Grandfather was born in this village.’
The old man listens to the translation and a look of recognition and kindness comes over his face.
I want to add a line for the old man where he looks at the kid and says, ‘I remember your Grandfather, you look just like him.’ Then his expression changes and he says, ‘He owes me twenty bucks.’
Does that make me a bad person?
‘Excuse me. My Grandfather was born in this village.’
The old man listens to the translation and a look of recognition and kindness comes over his face.
I want to add a line for the old man where he looks at the kid and says, ‘I remember your Grandfather, you look just like him.’ Then his expression changes and he says, ‘He owes me twenty bucks.’
Does that make me a bad person?
Aargh
I spent the whole day finishing up some paperwork for the LTD insurance company. They do this periodically, asking for a doctor’s assessment of my condition, updates on my status, a list of docs I see and meds I take, and a few other things.
I don’t think they have any idea how difficult that is. It doesn’t sound like much, but it involves two extra trips to my doctor, pulling together all the information they want (that I have no other reason to keep track of in one place), getting the other info that I don’t normally have anyway because I have no use for it, filling out the forms and then checking everything.
This is just the kind of stuff that I have trouble with.
So, as productive as I may have been it certainly is tiring and I don’t get anything else done. It even managed to drive everything else I needed to do out of my head.
Oh well, at least it’s done and gets mailed tomorrow. Did I mention I had to fight the thing to fold it small enough to fit in the envelope? No, well, there was that too.
All I have to do the rest of the week is two doctor appointments, one trip for the dog, a run to the post office, some quick shopping for things we’ve run out of (that’s what I was supposed to do today) and make four more doctor appointments.
Fun, fun, fun.
Yes, it could be worse, but it still isn’t anything you would volunteer for.
Well, sometimes I just have to vent – in public even, but I should stop complaining. If my head has cleared enough maybe I can go read.
I don’t think they have any idea how difficult that is. It doesn’t sound like much, but it involves two extra trips to my doctor, pulling together all the information they want (that I have no other reason to keep track of in one place), getting the other info that I don’t normally have anyway because I have no use for it, filling out the forms and then checking everything.
This is just the kind of stuff that I have trouble with.
So, as productive as I may have been it certainly is tiring and I don’t get anything else done. It even managed to drive everything else I needed to do out of my head.
Oh well, at least it’s done and gets mailed tomorrow. Did I mention I had to fight the thing to fold it small enough to fit in the envelope? No, well, there was that too.
All I have to do the rest of the week is two doctor appointments, one trip for the dog, a run to the post office, some quick shopping for things we’ve run out of (that’s what I was supposed to do today) and make four more doctor appointments.
Fun, fun, fun.
Yes, it could be worse, but it still isn’t anything you would volunteer for.
Well, sometimes I just have to vent – in public even, but I should stop complaining. If my head has cleared enough maybe I can go read.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Balance
Sometimes there is no balance in life. All you can do is go back and forth, teetering on either side of that tiny point in the middle, letting life swing from one side to the other and hoping to avoid the extremes.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Jobs and taxes
If cutting corporate taxes really will create jobs, I have a suggestion.
Cut corporate taxes if they create jobs. Do it after the jobs are created, not as an incentive but as a reward.
Cut corporate taxes if they create jobs. Do it after the jobs are created, not as an incentive but as a reward.
I may not wear rose colored glasses, but ...
In spite of what I have been posting lately, and even in light of the fact that I do see little hope for this country to not only not achieve what is possible but to not even do what is rational or moral, I have not stopped trying in my personal life.
I was talking to a doctor once and I mentioned that I was more than open to suggestions about what I could do to work or improve so I could get back to work in some way. The doctor asked me, if I was disabled and couldn’t work, why would I even ask such a thing?
After a moment or two of shock, during which I wondered what the heck this person was thinking, I said that I had to try. I ask for advice all the time. I know that I have physical limitations that make it impossible for me to do even part-time work. I can’t even manage a couple of hours a day. That doesn’t mean I don’t want that to change and that I won’t look for any way I can to get around it.
I have to try.
I don’t know if the doctor believed me, of course they were working for an insurance company so who knows. They didn’t believe you could think about more than one thing at a time, either. That came up when I explained that I couldn’t multi-task anymore. Whatever.
I have to try. I have to keep trying even when I fail and even when experience shows me that I can not do what I want to do. The alternative is to give up. I’m not going to give up. I don’t know a single disabled person who would.
Yes, I have limitations and deficits, I am disabled, I am depressed, I struggle to do things that were not even worth a thought before, I get through some days by sheer stubbornness and then I collapse for days after. So what?
I still keep working on ways to get around the limitations, or to find other things that I might be able to do – which is why I ask about things to try – and I still look for ways to be more than what I am right now. Moving is hard, thinking is hard, heck, even sitting in a chair is hard and the pain doesn’t care if I’m moving or not, but that’s the point. It doesn’t go away if I do nothing – and I don’t get better if I do nothing. So why would I do nothing?
Sure, I have to be careful not to make things worse and I do have problems with recovering from any level exertion. If I push too hard I could injure myself, maybe even kill myself by trying too hard, but I’m not talking about being unreasonable. Well, maybe except for the parts where I’m stubborn. And I do need to talk to my cardiologist about a few things but that’s a different story.
My point is that I can’t do things right now, but I want to be able to do something in the future and in order to get there I have to try. I may not make it. I’ll deal with that later. (Yes, this could indicate an irrational denial of reality. I don’t care.)
The world sucks, the country sucks and most of the time life sucks. I may have no hope of ever achieving what I want to achieve or even accomplishing anything at all. My own limitations or outside forces may get in the way. That does not mean that I will give up and not try.
Who was it who said that if you don’t try you’ve already failed? Well in this situation they were right.
Keep on truckin’.
I was talking to a doctor once and I mentioned that I was more than open to suggestions about what I could do to work or improve so I could get back to work in some way. The doctor asked me, if I was disabled and couldn’t work, why would I even ask such a thing?
After a moment or two of shock, during which I wondered what the heck this person was thinking, I said that I had to try. I ask for advice all the time. I know that I have physical limitations that make it impossible for me to do even part-time work. I can’t even manage a couple of hours a day. That doesn’t mean I don’t want that to change and that I won’t look for any way I can to get around it.
I have to try.
I don’t know if the doctor believed me, of course they were working for an insurance company so who knows. They didn’t believe you could think about more than one thing at a time, either. That came up when I explained that I couldn’t multi-task anymore. Whatever.
I have to try. I have to keep trying even when I fail and even when experience shows me that I can not do what I want to do. The alternative is to give up. I’m not going to give up. I don’t know a single disabled person who would.
Yes, I have limitations and deficits, I am disabled, I am depressed, I struggle to do things that were not even worth a thought before, I get through some days by sheer stubbornness and then I collapse for days after. So what?
I still keep working on ways to get around the limitations, or to find other things that I might be able to do – which is why I ask about things to try – and I still look for ways to be more than what I am right now. Moving is hard, thinking is hard, heck, even sitting in a chair is hard and the pain doesn’t care if I’m moving or not, but that’s the point. It doesn’t go away if I do nothing – and I don’t get better if I do nothing. So why would I do nothing?
Sure, I have to be careful not to make things worse and I do have problems with recovering from any level exertion. If I push too hard I could injure myself, maybe even kill myself by trying too hard, but I’m not talking about being unreasonable. Well, maybe except for the parts where I’m stubborn. And I do need to talk to my cardiologist about a few things but that’s a different story.
My point is that I can’t do things right now, but I want to be able to do something in the future and in order to get there I have to try. I may not make it. I’ll deal with that later. (Yes, this could indicate an irrational denial of reality. I don’t care.)
The world sucks, the country sucks and most of the time life sucks. I may have no hope of ever achieving what I want to achieve or even accomplishing anything at all. My own limitations or outside forces may get in the way. That does not mean that I will give up and not try.
Who was it who said that if you don’t try you’ve already failed? Well in this situation they were right.
Keep on truckin’.
Double dipping
I can’t get that worked up about the chances of a double-dip recession. It’s not that I think it can’t happen. I’m just not sure what the consequences will be or how bad it would be.
Let me explain.
We had a recession in which millions of people lost their jobs, their homes and their savings. At the same time Wall Street and many banks tanked, a few investment companies even went out of business or were swallowed by larger companies.
In the recovery – the time when the technical definition of a recession ending was met – Wall Street recovered, the investment companies recovered and the banks recovered, largely because of enormous bailouts paid for with tax dollars. In most cases, the employees responsible for the crisis did not suffer at all.
At the same time employment crept up marginally, but most of the jobs were low paying and the good jobs that had been lost are still not there. People haven’t gotten their houses back and their life savings are still gone.
So, to recap: the recession hurt the banks and millions of Americans, the recovery helped the banks and very few Americans.
If there is another dip into a new recession, Wall Street will be hurt. Will more average Americans be hurt? This recovery has helped people who already had money, if they lose money that their only sticking in their pockets and not spending anyway, why should I care?
So, I’m really not sure a double-dip recession will cause more pain for most people. We’re already hurting and no one in power seems to care, so why should I care about them?
Let me add that since the bill just passed that will supposedly help the economy actually costs jobs and reduces spending that could help people and the economy I really can’t believe anything that Washington says about what I should worry about, what needs to be done or even what color the sky is.
Let me explain.
We had a recession in which millions of people lost their jobs, their homes and their savings. At the same time Wall Street and many banks tanked, a few investment companies even went out of business or were swallowed by larger companies.
In the recovery – the time when the technical definition of a recession ending was met – Wall Street recovered, the investment companies recovered and the banks recovered, largely because of enormous bailouts paid for with tax dollars. In most cases, the employees responsible for the crisis did not suffer at all.
At the same time employment crept up marginally, but most of the jobs were low paying and the good jobs that had been lost are still not there. People haven’t gotten their houses back and their life savings are still gone.
So, to recap: the recession hurt the banks and millions of Americans, the recovery helped the banks and very few Americans.
If there is another dip into a new recession, Wall Street will be hurt. Will more average Americans be hurt? This recovery has helped people who already had money, if they lose money that their only sticking in their pockets and not spending anyway, why should I care?
So, I’m really not sure a double-dip recession will cause more pain for most people. We’re already hurting and no one in power seems to care, so why should I care about them?
Let me add that since the bill just passed that will supposedly help the economy actually costs jobs and reduces spending that could help people and the economy I really can’t believe anything that Washington says about what I should worry about, what needs to be done or even what color the sky is.
Monday, August 1, 2011
The future
I’ve been ranting, though I would say in a very reasonable manner with understandable motivation.
What has been happening in this country, and what specifically just happened over the debt ceiling deal, was not a loss for a political party. This was a loss for the people of this country.
If you’re not old enough to remember, go look up what air and water quality were like before the EPA. Or food safety back when there was money and the will to do inspections. We already know what happens to the economy when Wall Street isn’t regulated.
Go back further and look at what happened under FDR to see how we could have gotten out of this mess – and check out Hoover, the failed policies will look familiar.
Or just think of your own commute and how many potholes there are in the street, how few trains there are and how dirty the streets are.
With negative changes probably coming to many government agencies, with no help for unemployment and with no stimulus, no revenue and only cuts I can’t see anything good coming from this. The immediate future may be reminiscent of the 1920s and ‘30s, and since I think this country lacks the will to force the necessary changes, the Great Depression may look like a Golden Age in comparison.
Less than 20 years ago we had a strong economy and a strong nation, but after 30 years of deliberate assault our democracy is all but dead. No, it’s not a crazy conspiracy theory, it’s just that most people don’t realize it happened or why or how. A handful of people control enough politicians to rule the country. Elected representatives of less than 20% of the population dictate policy to the rest.
Manufactured budget crises are being used as excuses to hurt people so that the rich can be given more. Many states and the country as a whole are not being governed for the good of the people but for the benefit of wealthy political donors.
I have always cared about how this country treated people in need, or even just people who needed a little help. I cared even when these things did not touch me, even when my wife and I were both healthy and employed in secure, well paying jobs. I used to have hope for my future and the future of the nation.
I really don’t have much hope anymore. Not for the country or for myself. I am dependent on others for everything I need to live. I’m trying to change that, but the way things look I won’t get the chance. I’m honestly not sure I’ll be around in five years. Hell, I’m not sure I’ll make it to next year.
What has been happening in this country, and what specifically just happened over the debt ceiling deal, was not a loss for a political party. This was a loss for the people of this country.
If you’re not old enough to remember, go look up what air and water quality were like before the EPA. Or food safety back when there was money and the will to do inspections. We already know what happens to the economy when Wall Street isn’t regulated.
Go back further and look at what happened under FDR to see how we could have gotten out of this mess – and check out Hoover, the failed policies will look familiar.
Or just think of your own commute and how many potholes there are in the street, how few trains there are and how dirty the streets are.
With negative changes probably coming to many government agencies, with no help for unemployment and with no stimulus, no revenue and only cuts I can’t see anything good coming from this. The immediate future may be reminiscent of the 1920s and ‘30s, and since I think this country lacks the will to force the necessary changes, the Great Depression may look like a Golden Age in comparison.
Less than 20 years ago we had a strong economy and a strong nation, but after 30 years of deliberate assault our democracy is all but dead. No, it’s not a crazy conspiracy theory, it’s just that most people don’t realize it happened or why or how. A handful of people control enough politicians to rule the country. Elected representatives of less than 20% of the population dictate policy to the rest.
Manufactured budget crises are being used as excuses to hurt people so that the rich can be given more. Many states and the country as a whole are not being governed for the good of the people but for the benefit of wealthy political donors.
I have always cared about how this country treated people in need, or even just people who needed a little help. I cared even when these things did not touch me, even when my wife and I were both healthy and employed in secure, well paying jobs. I used to have hope for my future and the future of the nation.
I really don’t have much hope anymore. Not for the country or for myself. I am dependent on others for everything I need to live. I’m trying to change that, but the way things look I won’t get the chance. I’m honestly not sure I’ll be around in five years. Hell, I’m not sure I’ll make it to next year.
Taxes
Republicans are celebrating that there are no tax hikes in the debt deal. I can only take that to mean that they want increased consolidation of power in the hands of a minority wealthy elite and that the wealthy should not have to contribute fairly to the country that makes it possible for them to be wealthy in the first place.
Not raising taxes and cutting spending in this type of economy is the wrong thing to do. We may all survive this, but it could have been so much easier.
Not raising taxes and cutting spending in this type of economy is the wrong thing to do. We may all survive this, but it could have been so much easier.
Social Security
And isn’t it nice that they say they won’t touch Social Security to balance the budget. Which is really nice because it almost make me think they aren’t complete idiots since, repeat after me,
SOCIAL SECURITY DOES NOT, NEVER HAS AND NEVER WILL ADD TO THE DEFICIT.
SOCIAL SECURITY DOES NOT, NEVER HAS AND NEVER WILL ADD TO THE DEFICIT.
Medicare
Oh, look, they promise to only cut Medicare to providers and they claim that it isn’t a cut to recipients’ benefits. Apparently limiting where sick people can get their health care isn’t a cut. I remember the same people that support this screaming about death panels that didn’t exist. I guess it’s OK if it only hurts people and not insurance companies.
Maybe they think this will force people to use private insurance but there isn’t a private insurer in the country who will cover you if you’re eligible for Medicare. And not cutting Medicaid might not help much because in some places it’s used to pay Medicare premiums so people can get health care through that.
Well, it only hurts poor people, seniors and the disabled so I guess it’s OK.
Maybe they think this will force people to use private insurance but there isn’t a private insurer in the country who will cover you if you’re eligible for Medicare. And not cutting Medicaid might not help much because in some places it’s used to pay Medicare premiums so people can get health care through that.
Well, it only hurts poor people, seniors and the disabled so I guess it’s OK.
Disgusted
I don’t imagine that many people are surprised that this entire debt ceiling fiasco has been nothing more than political theater that benefits the rich and at best does nothing for 98% of the American people.
Of course at worst this accelerates the downward economic spiral and destroys peoples’ lives.
No, now that I think of it, that’s what it does by design. To be worse it would actually have to cut all discretionary spending immediately, triple taxes on the middle class and cut all taxes on the rich.
This has all been staging for everyone’s next campaign. Remember, the people who promise to take away your pain next election are the ones who caused it in the first place. They don’t care who they hurt as long as they have their power.*
We can take it away from them, you know. No matter how many millions they get in contributions it doesn’t count unless they get the votes.**
Mitch McConnell said it himself when he said that since elections didn’t get him what he wanted he’d find another way to do it. Well, we just saw it happen. The nation’s economy was just held hostage – basically, the American people were threatened with harm if a few politicians weren’t allowed to harm them. Kind of like saying if you don’t let me shoot this hostage I’ll shoot this hostage.
They just shot the hostage.
Expect this to happen again, and in ways that will further hurt the country.
This is broken democracy.
* A few thought they were doing the only thing they could do under the circumstances. I think most of them were wrong.
** Though we do need to make sure the elections aren’t stolen because the stage is already set for that.
Of course at worst this accelerates the downward economic spiral and destroys peoples’ lives.
No, now that I think of it, that’s what it does by design. To be worse it would actually have to cut all discretionary spending immediately, triple taxes on the middle class and cut all taxes on the rich.
This has all been staging for everyone’s next campaign. Remember, the people who promise to take away your pain next election are the ones who caused it in the first place. They don’t care who they hurt as long as they have their power.*
We can take it away from them, you know. No matter how many millions they get in contributions it doesn’t count unless they get the votes.**
Mitch McConnell said it himself when he said that since elections didn’t get him what he wanted he’d find another way to do it. Well, we just saw it happen. The nation’s economy was just held hostage – basically, the American people were threatened with harm if a few politicians weren’t allowed to harm them. Kind of like saying if you don’t let me shoot this hostage I’ll shoot this hostage.
They just shot the hostage.
Expect this to happen again, and in ways that will further hurt the country.
This is broken democracy.
* A few thought they were doing the only thing they could do under the circumstances. I think most of them were wrong.
** Though we do need to make sure the elections aren’t stolen because the stage is already set for that.
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