from my uncle tonight.
And to be honest I'm a lot on edge and freaked about what actually is going on and if these politicians in DC are up to the task.
So, I replied with my own rant. You can read that below. I guess this is just an opportunity for everyone to rant and ask what the fuck is actually going on...
Let's break this down here. Tonight the nation's largest savings and loan failed. The FDIC, the Federal Deposit INSURANCE Corporation, does not have the funds available to cover the deposits. They will seize WaMu and arranged with JP Morgan to take responsibly for WaMu's deposits. Do you get that? The FDIC is basically worthless. They can't do the one and only thing they are meant to do.
This the night after Bush told the nation to remain calm while he and his corporate allies plunder the US treasury.
I don't care how much you hate the gays or want to deny women the right to reproductive choice. That is not the issue we are faced with.
While the ruling class has been waging a relentless class war against the working class in the US the working class has been kept distracted by the culture war.
Now, reality is starting to dawn about the costs of unchecked corporate power and political corruption. They may be holding a cross and draped with a flag. But, they are still criminals and thieves.
We are in the middle of two wars, a constitution in tatters, a bureaucracy that barely functions, a near political crisis in DC, a near health care crisis national, a near energy crisis globally, a near environmental crisis globally. And not one of these problems need to be problems.
They all, each one, have been caused by ineptitude, idiocy and greed. The criminals have used religion and patriotism as cover. Professing to support family values while picking our pockets and devaluing families.
And McCain treats this whole thing like a political joke and gimmick. He spits in the face of Americans when he talks about a gas tax holiday to solve our energy problems, says with a straight face that Palin is fit to be VP of the United States, is run like a puppet by corporate lobbyists and talks about 'reform', tries to turn honest efforts to avert a financial crisis into a political stunt to hide from a debate with Obama, lies with an ease that even shames Bush, blusters and threatens a 3rd or 4th war with Iran and Russia.
And then we have a sizable portion of our population rather dazed and confused about what is really going on.
And the only thing you can come up with is hysteria over Obama and his 'hidden' agenda?
What is Obama's 'hidden' agenda? Single handedly turning us all into sodomizing, Muslim, Euro/African, abortionists? All with our own 'hidden' agendas to destroy your family and christian values?
Right now wall street is only demanding $700 billion, if they don't get it they threaten to turn off credit to small business and home owners and college students.
Many economists balk at guestimating how deep this hole they have dug. It seems $7 trillion is a figure thrown around often. One thing most of them agree on this Bush plundering of the treasury is a huge mistake.
After 232 years, the US has managed to rack up a debt of $11 trillion some. And well that is kind of unfair. Almost all of that debt is thanks to the last 28 years of almost complete and total corporate domination of our politics and culture.
You know what is actually going to destroy millions of American families and their values and way of life? A nation driven into poverty by the greed of a few.
It is those few that use the 'culture war' to obfuscate their not at-all-hidden agenda. Those that now demand billions of our nation's money and wealth to cover their ineptitude and greed. Those that said we cannot afford universal education, health care, child care and livable wages. They come back at us with threats of economic disaster unless we hand over the national treasury.
So, cling to your fearmongering safety blanket if you must. And fantasize all the ways Obama is going to destroy you. But, you've already been destroyed by those you believe defend your values. And they are aiming to take this entire country with them.