No solutions just whining

Barack Obama may be making a mistake with the economic stimulus, that remains to be seen. It seems to me though, that he's at least trying to get things back on track. Meanwhile yet another harping Republican, this time the Goeringesqe Karl Rove, chimes in with more of the same old Republican claptrap about lowering taxes for his rich pals and how the Democrats just don't get it. Wake up Karl! Your ideas didn't work and actually sent our country into the poorhouse. Why should we listen to you?

Ah at least some things still work

I can't complain for the moment because I just spent a pleasant evening with some of my students. Sometimes they frustrate me terribly but at other times their youthful spirit reminds me that I used to be free of all these concerns. I get to be a part of their world for a few minute, though I'm not really a part in full. I don't care what some may say about teaching, about the low pay and long hours, about how teachers aren't really doing their jobs properly. I just relax and let the kids relax and things are fine

Corporate Oligarchy

We are no longer ruled by Washington. Instead our country, our lives are run by a group of wealthy and exceedingly corrupt business thugs. It happened because starting with Reagan, financial institutions in America were given free reign to solidify their positions, to set policies that allowed loan shark style lending through credit cards, the repackaging of home loans into these ridiculously risky but still, somehow, A1 rated, commodities, the bloating of insurance management into this giant that pays it's widget managers like princes while putting the poor out without medical care...and on and on.

We are fooling ourselves believing we have elected leaders. The real leaders of our country are a pack of rich and exceedingly greedy businessmen and those guys need to go. Their businesses need to be broken down into smaller entities and it needs to happen to nearly every large corporation in this country.

I'm sick of my life being run by a bunch of businessmen.

Funny

It's amazing the number of Republicans, like Mark Sanford, that have suddenly become champions of fiscal responsiblity. It's almost as if they didn't set spending records every year of Bush's two terms. It's almost as if they didn't preside over massive deficits and then leave us with the biggest economic mess we've faced in a century. This is infuriating.

Who's to Blame

Time Magazine published a great article with the pictures of 25 people responsible for our economic crisis. Since I live in the Republican heartland I've heard a good deal of how Democrats are to blame for our economic problems. I wonder how many of them bothered to read this article. Probably dismissed it out of hand as just another example of the liberal press, even though the article doesn't spare Bill Clinton, who went along with the Republican policies happily.

Republican vision

It seems to me the Republicans have not yet figured out that in a supply and demand economy you cannot continue to pump money into the supply side when folks haven't an extra dime to spend.
Yet they continue to sing their same old song, tax breaks for the rich, protect business, food stamps bad, big money for corporations good, blah blah blah.

In addition they have so blinded themselves to their own failures many believe the current economic crisis is all the fault of Democrats. As if they haven't spent the last thirty years chantng about the efficacy of the free market.

Well the free market bit us in the ass. Corruption ran wild and while it was working everyone was happy to turn a blind eye. Now that the house of cards has collapsed the Republicans are careful to sit on the sidelines snarking at everyone about how they had nothing to do with any of it.