Well…by now you’ve heard that S&P has downgraded the US credit rating and I can’t figure out if the tea partiers are the most stupid bunch of politicians in the history of this country or they are the most brilliant…running the longest and most Machiavellian con ever on the American people. With this downgrade, the cost of borrowing for everyone who has a mortgage, credit card, or car loan is going to go up with the cost to the entire economy being almost a trillion dollars over time. Now you could call the tea partiers stupid for making this happen with their antics on the debt ceiling debate (and the failure to consider raising taxes was one of the primary factors in the downgrade)….but I see a darker theme….and I’m going to wade into the swamp of conspiracy theory here for a lark. What if this is what they planned all along? Who benefits from higher interest rates? The rich and corporations who make money lending….so the tea partiers won’t have tax increases on the rich, then with their nonsense in the debate, they essentially raise taxes on everyone else by the higher interest rates that result from the downgrade. They’ve taken another trillion dollars out of the middle class and given it to the rich and corporations….now who is going to buy the goods and services that keeps the economy moving? Stupid, Stupid, stupid….
Monthly Archives: August 2011
August 6th
Well…yeah, I know, I’m early today but I’ve been up for 15 minutes and I’m already bored so I thought I’d do this before I go out to get the few groceries that I forgot to get Thurs….not much to do today after that, though,….maybe this wasn’t a good idea….I’ll be back in a while….
Okay, got the bike ride in and feel a little better…I think I may have a bug of some sort…I’ve been quite tired lately and only feel good when I’m on the bike….maybe it’s the heat…who knows? I did get another one done and if you’ve been here before, you know that is really unusual for a Saturday…but I had this weird idea pop into my head when I was out riding and had to get it down before I forgot it….looks like another event at the church behind me and there will be noise all day….may have to run the air…more later…
More and more wandering…
Well…I really haven’t been able to come up with a topic that will fill a whole one of these so I think I’m just going to wander around a bit again….man…I didn’t want to be right on the economy, but with what we’ve seen over the last month or so, with the Dow losing almost 10% and growth down to 0….it looks like my prediction of a double dip recession is coming true…not good for someone still looking for work. The gridlock in Washington isn’t helping and with the crazy right wingers calling the shots, there will be no more stimulus and the layoffs are going to start on the state and local levels….nope, too much doom and gloom….have to stop so I don’t go over the edge….
What else? Hmmmm…can’t think of anything right now but after I watch Jon Stewart here in a minute, I may get my brain stimulated enough to add….so, come back for a sec later and see….
Okay, let’s just call it a day…nothing’s working…I think I may just have come to the point of bad news overload and railing against it will take more energy than I have so I am going to bid you adieu for the day…..but, who knows…inspiration may strike again and rally me from this ennui…I will probably have to start using placeholders again if this block doesn’t break….
August 5th
Well….it was a long day yesterday and I do feel a little crappy today…I did get to have a couple with T and that was fun….nope…not feeling it…just too depressed about the economy…going to the couch for a minute or longer and will be back later…
Okay…I’m back…got the bike ride in and feel 100% better…I still don’t have much to say right now so I’m going to start lunch, get some stuff done, and read the online papers….I will be back later with more than this….trying to stay current with the count this month…
I may have been a little harsh…and other things..
Well…I may have been a little harsh in my assessment that the Post wanted stories that were more desperate than mine….but, my story is not the typical one of unemployment that most people face. So, that’s the last time I’ll talk about that. I did want to say “I told you so” with the steadily worsening economy and the Dow down almost 300 points today…something I predicted in the last week or so. Not something I wanted to see since I am losing money like crazy and I don’t have a lot left but maybe it’s something that needs to happen to get rid of the repubs and their nonsense on the economy….the strange thing is, the repubs are always going back into history to justify their positions and then they ignore it when it doesn’t fit…oh, it’s not a strange thing, they cherry pick everything and lie about everything else….man, I am losing my edge…but, back to the historical significance of where we are….it’s just like 1937 when Roosevelt bowed to repub pressure and made drastic cuts to spending while the economy was idling; sending it back into a recession that was only broken by WW II. I will predict that is what is going to happen in the next few months….geez….
August 4th
Well…another normal night here at the homestead and I feel a little crappy today but I earned it so I don’t feel that bad about it…there is a lot of political stuff going on and I should be commenting on it and I just might do that later…after all, that’s the purpose of this thing…I did hear from the Post why they dropped me but I still don’t understand it…it was because I write this thing everyday and having it already gives me a “voice” that others don’t have….but everyone has a Facebook page that has much more exposure than I get daily…I really don’t fit into the “poor me” that they were looking for for the series and I think I would not have added to the story they are trying to tell…not much to do today…what do I normally do Thursday? Groceries, of course, since I don’t have any food in the place and I may meet up with T for a minute but that’s about it….I will have more later so come on back…
Let’s go double dipping…
Well….it didn’t take long for the business and investment community to react to the debt bill by laying off thousands of workers and starting a huge selloff in stocks….what these idiot tea partiers have done is drive this country back into recession by their nonsensical budget cuts in a time of economic weakness…and I will predict right now that this dip is going to be just as severe as the super recession was and it looks like the prospects of me ever finding a job has just disappeared as business is going to sit on their money and not hire since demand is going to plummet. What excuse are the tp’ers going to make up when all of their beliefs on the economy are shown to be wrong? That the cuts weren’t big enough? Idiocy is still idiocy….and these people have the corner on it…what are their corporate masters going to do when their business is hurt deeply by this crap?
The second thing I wanted to talk about is the effort by the Koch brothers and their minions to steal the recall elections in Wisconsin by sending fake absentee ballots that have the wrong date of the election on it. Yep, that’s true…the repubs are using their favorite tools to steal elections in plain sight in Wisconsin…voter suppression with the fake enforcement of the new voter ID law (that doesn’t take effect until January 1st) and misleading voters to keep them from the polls. Haven’t we, as a people, had enough of this nonsense yet? We do need to take our country back from the thugs in the repub party that sanction this stuff. Geez….
August 3rd
Well…I finally had something to do last night with going out to have a couple with G but that slid right back into boredom when I got home….had more weird dreams about computers last night and working in an office again but that will never happen so I don’t know where that is coming from….oh, well…I did have some ideas about posts but I forgot them over night…Al Gore was fired up on Countdown last night and I wish we’d see some of that from Obama….one good thing about this whole mess is that the results of this debt deal are being rejected by business with the Dow falling 265 points after it was signed and people are waking up to the fact that….oh, that is for a political one later…kind of mixing up the purposes here….not much to do today…have to keep getting rid of stuff here and cleaning but that is about it….more later….
I’m done with Obama..
Well…this debt deal is such a big pile of steaming crap that I have lost all faith in Obama’s ability to do anything right…he just gave the country away to the tea party nuts and got nothing in return….so our economy is going to go back in the tank if you believe anything of Keynes…but the right doesn’t believe in anything that doesn’t help the rich and business and they’ve never let facts get in the way of governing by faith…thinking that if they just believe hard enough will make their nonsense the truth….but the fault for this whole thing rests solidly on the shoulders of Obama and his incompetence….along with this inability to understand that you can’t negotiate with people that just don’t care about the country or the people in it….Obama just blows in the wind and takes the crumbs that these radicals offer….where’s the veto pen? Where are the guts? I do hope that the rest of us progressives just bypass him and get on with making this country what it can be…not the dark vision of the repubs….
August 2nd
Well….another night of staying home and it is getting to be quite wearing not having anything to do….I did have weird dreams that had guns, bombs, and lots of weird birds in them and it was kind of odd that I was able to go back to the same dream every time I went back to sleep. It was kind of entertaining, though, and nice to finally have some after there being none for so long. It looks like rain this morning so I might have to take the day off from riding and that might not be a bad thing…I have been having pain in my left leg and I think it may be that the nerve is being pinched by the seat….not much to do today….I do need to clean this place up….my fridge looks like a war zone and needs a deep scrubbing so that will be the plan for the morning and I have to fight the ant invasion I’m having….I am so disappointed in Obama that I will need to write about that later so come on back…I may even make sense today…