If you haven’t done it yet… vote.
It’s a goddamn shame only a shade over half of us do it.
I don’t care who it’s for… just do it.
And don’t let anyone stop you…
Suicide on Wall Street…
You know the economy is ‘fundamentally strong’ when rich people start losing money. Need a quick recap of everything that’s happen in the last oh… 12 days or so?
- Gas goes back up to four dollars in the wake of Hurricane Ike, with shortages in much of the Southeast.
- Lehman Brothers… bankrupt.
- The Dow Jones dropping five hundred points in one day. Even if you don’t know shit about stocks, bonds, futures, or securities, I’m sure you can understand that losing 500 of just about anything generally isn’t good.
- Unemployment rate? 6.1% If we lived in France that wouldn’t be too bad but… we don’t.
- Bailouts coming out of our ass: Bank of America taking over Merrill Lynch, our government bailing out Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Wall Street and the financial sector with billions of dollars that (lest we forget) we kind of don’t actually have.
- Oh… and it’s probably important to mention that AIG is actually our nation’s largest insurance company. Insurance companies are practically designed to make obscene amounts of money and even our largest insurance company almost went under.
Fundamentally strong eh? I guess that would be easy for me to say too if I had a steady check coming from my government every month and a zany wife worth a $100 million.
Then again… at the rate we’re going, not even the wealthy may be safe.
