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Glen R Krisch wrote:

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But don't you know, the recession is over. Things are looking up! A whole lotta doublespeak going on out there.

This did not start on January 20th 2009. This started back in 2001 when, instead of reigning in corporate and wall street malfeasance, it was rewarded. Starting a war with a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 at the cost of BILLIONS of dollars a month and no-bid contracts to friends of the previous adminsitration and tax cuts for the rich made it worse.

We didn't get here over night and we're sure as hell not going to get out of it quickly. I understand that. I'm just waiting for the current administration to grow a set of brass ones and stop catering to big business as promised and start getting rid of the tax breaks for outsourcing. Getting out of Iraq and Afghanistan would stop the hemmoraging of hundreds of billions of dollars monthly.

They finally passed the green jobs bill and health care is in the works. These are things that will help. Reduce healthcare costs and corporations can't complain that it is the "high cost of health care" that makes them outsource to third world countries. Create green jobs that can't be outsourced, that put Americans in America to work and reduces our dependence on foreign oil while giving us a safer, cleaner environment.

The Cash For Clunkers is a great example of the real "trickle down" economics.

Sell out cars
New cars have to be made
Car companies hire back employees
Third party vendors need to provide the car company with raw materials (some which are made here in the US)
Third party vendors hire employees

Win-win. People are productive, working and happy (somewhat). A productive and working population pays taxes, buys goods and services and society benefits.

Laying off hundrends of thousands of people does not put money in the goverment coffers, small mom and pop shops go out of business because people aren't buying goods and services (and I'm not talking about luxeries, I'm talking about necessities), which in turn leads to more layoffs, more people on unemployment, welfare, etc.

The cycle needs to be broken and the people who broke it need to be punished.

I read a great op/ed piece about these so called "unbreakable" corporate contracts. If an executive's compensation contract is so sacrosant, then why isn't the contract with the line worker? Why is it ok to break a union contract and throw thousands of workers out into the street but it's not ok to break an executive's contract and deny him millions of dollars in bonuses (we're not talking base salary here) while he is one of the architects of the current "economic crisis?"

I'm not a socialist, communist or even a democrat - I just believe that fair is fair. And I don't see a whole lot of fairness going on. The laws should appy equally to everyone, not just a select few.

Apologies to all. If you haven't noticed, I'm in a bitter, bad place right now.

I hate all politicians

I hate us all for being complacent and allowing this shit to happen

I think we should just EMP the planet from orbit and start over again-an EMP is so much better than a nuke since no animals or plant life will be harmed but it will set us back to the "dark ages" where, when we start over, we'll hopefully have learned from our mistakes.

Oh, wait, what am I saying... Fuck it we're never going to learn.