Thursday, October 2, 2008

I Want A Bail Out...

So if the government bails out Wall Street, are they going to bail us out? Us Joe Six Packs (or, in my case, Joe Twelve Pack, because I am that much more manlier than most everyone else - or I drink too much beer - you decide) screw up financially all the time - where's our golden parachute?

It infuriates me that the government would bail out an economy that has been brutally sodomized by greedy bankers and brokers at the expense of the American (or legally naturalized) tax payer.

What about health care? $700 billion dollars would help a lot of sick people get better. Let the greedy pricks on Wall Street tread water for a couple of years. Let the housing market tank. Let the economy recover naturally even if it takes some time. By voting in the bail out the government is essentially 'faking it' (interpret that comparison as you will) while the Democrats fling crap at the Republicans and the Republicans fling crap at the Democrats and the blame game goes on and on and on.

Bush urges the House and the Senate to pass the bill - but does he care or is he simply using a bucket to bail out the sinking ship that will likely be his political legacy so late in his undeniably assinine Presidential career?

It pisses me off that big business wins again while unemployment rates skyrocket (the highest in seven years as of today), small businesses fail, and hundreds of thousands if not millions of people in this country can't afford to see a doctor. The two party system in this country continues to fail and I sincerely believe that the founding fathers would be horribly, horribly embarassed by all of this, as everyone who has played a part in the economic downfall of the former superpower that was the United States of America should be.

It might sound ungrateful for an immigrant such as myself to bitch about things like this, but if I didn't truly care about the direction the country is taking I wouldn't be here in the first place. At least in Canada I could go to the hospital without having to sell an organ on the blackmarket to fund it. America is awesome in so many ways and it is such a truly great country on so many levels that it just adds insult to injury to see this happen....

2 comments:

The Hamzinger said...

It's not ungrateful at all, Ian - you came here by choice so I think your perspective is at least as important, if not more so in some aspects, than any other native son. I would love to see the entire system disposed of, incrementally or all at once, just as a last-gasp solution to fix it and make it right and freakin' Constitutional.
But good on our Oregon congress folks (except human parrot Gordon Smith) for taking the stand for what's right. There's some serious prime bait in the bailout package for them but Wyden and DeFazio saw it as wrong and called it out. That's at least a little something...

ianjane said...

Yeah I was glad to see them stand up and say something at least. It'll be interesting to see how this all plays out and if it does any long term good at all....