Hello everyone,
I voted today and I have to admit that it was very nerve wracking. I can't believe I feel this way while voting. I feel as if this is the most important thing I could be doing ever for my country.
Bailouts of Wall Street, Fear of Palin Presidency, the Country falling apart right in front of my eyes. I haven't been sleeping well....there is a disturbance in force and a big change is coming. What is keeping me up at night is wondering if it will be Obama or McCain who will bring the change?
The fact that I mentioned that a change is coming; one would think that I could only be talking about Obama. But no. I believe that if McCain is elected, he will bring about a terrible change. The world as we know it will become like some strange Blade Runner world, where corporations rule and we the people are their servants and consumers.
Deregulate-let the companies do as they please with out morals, greedily, gobbling all in its path. Hedge Funds sucking the blood when the companies tumble and from what I understand, 'shorters' getting great deals. We the people pay for all this debacle. Our investments, securities are lost and we pay a second time to bail them out.
A trillion dollars...
But where did the money go that these Companies were custodian over? You know, the 401ks...etc and where will the money go that the government is lending them? A trillion dollars since March? Who has all this money? Where is the money?
Will anyone go to jail?
It reminds me of the Savings and Loans scandal which reminds me of John McCain and the Keating 5. Keating 5 Wikipedia This entry seems to give the jist of the event. There is plenty of information out there if you are interested in finding out. Where did the money go? Deep down I believe that venture capitalist got the money some how and it trickled down in the boom under Clinton. There was lots of investment in telecommunications...the rise of Yahoo, Amazon.com.... Where did these new sprouting companies get their startup monies from? Some may say...see that is the trickle down economy, working. But it was not sustainable. By 1997 there were already cracks and we the American people have our internets, our blackberries, our shiney SUVs. But no universal healthcare and education is expensive and manufacturing has left the building. Rising unemployment and many working people not being able to afford to live. Struggling.
It also reminds me of Neil Bush, having no banking background, is on a board of the infamous Silverado Savings and Loan, whose collapse cost taxpayers $1 billion. Neil Bush got to keep the house that was gifted to him by one of the said defaulters who helped with the bank's failing. He got a slap on the wrist. Soon after we went to war with Iraq, the first time. At the time I believed that it was an manufactured war to 'distract' the American People that they just got fleeced twice. Their monies were stolen from the banks and our taxpayer's money is bailing us out.
Just look at the present Iraq War. No proof of WMD beyond the fact that we sold him some in the 80's to use against the Iranians. It was about oil. They distracted the America people with fear and billions have been spent on the war. Where did the money go? Who lined their pockets?
So if John McCain gets in, I am certain there will be another war. If he dies and Palin becomes President, then we will have another war as well, perhaps for different reasons but it will still serve as a distraction to us so that we do not know if we are coming or going, our privacy, our very freedoms will whittle away and one day we will look up and ask, "What happened?" as we're standing in a soup line. These Republicans do not care about the American people at all. They care about business. And a Palin Presidency would bring reforms of the worse kind. An American Taliban, a fundamentalist regime.
I feel that this is the most important vote in my life. A vote for change that I believe will take us down a different path than we have seen for 25 years. Where we are today is the culmination of a greed society. A 'me' society that I watched gather momentum under Reagan/Bush. Yuppies, whose primary duty was to be warriors in the financial centers and to rape and pillage when they could get away with it. Where morality is a weakness. Where workers are treated terribly by management and that is ok and encouraged to make the biggest profit for management or their shareholders. Where Corporations are more important than the American people. We are fodder.
I voted today for a revolution, a government run by competent people. I voted for President, a man who knows what communities across America are going through because he worked in said communities. I voted against the status quo. I voted today for Hope.
These are desperate times.
Updated: I voted with an absentee ballot from Europe.