{"id":1302,"date":"2008-10-03T19:05:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T23:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2008-10-03T19:08:05","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T23:08:05","slug":"politicians-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=1302","title":{"rendered":"Politicians suck"},"content":{"rendered":"

So congress passed the bailout bill<\/a> today. And I’m just freaking pissed off.<\/p>\n

Not because the bailout itself got passed – as I said previously, I don’t really understand the financial implications and am not really affected by the stock market. I’m pissed because it failed the first time and passed the second. I’m pissed because a bunch of congress – of both parties – voted it down<\/i> the first time. The president wanted the bill to pass, the republican presidential candidate wanted he bill to pass, the democratic presidential candidate wanted the bill to pass… and still congress didn’t pass it. Okay, fine. So what did they do? Address the underlying issue? Try to bring in some plan to prevent it from happening again? No. They “sweetened the deal.” They added effing tax breaks into the bill… tax breaks for businesses<\/i>. Tax breaks for the very people who caused this whole fucking mess in the first place.<\/i> NOW it passes. The same bailout amount. The same terms.<\/p>\n

I just want to say to them, you fucking selfish assholes<\/i>. You drag your feet because you want something out of the deal? You hem and haw and aren’t sure about it, but you buy in because of tax breaks??<\/p>\n

And, hello, combining giving out 700 billion AND extending tax breaks seems completely contra-indicated here. The United States is digging itself a financial hole like nothing ever seen before. The country is like a freaking 18 year old who just got his first credit card and thinks it’s free money. What the hell ever happened to balanced budgets? You know… the amount coming in must equal the amount going out. Or, hey, here’s an idea: let’s pay back some of this debt we’re in.<\/p>\n

Oh I am just disgusted, I really am. I’m sure there is more to it than what I am seeing, what the common people are hearing, but my initial impression is just to be really quite disgusted.<\/p>\n

And furthermore, why on earth don’t they have some financial advisors on TV explaining the situation and why the bailout is necessary? I keep hearing that it IS necessary, like I said by many of this country’s current leaders, but no one’s really explaining why<\/i>.<\/p>\n

On another topic, the debate last night. It was fun to watch. I was pleasantly surprized by both VP candidates. Sarah Palin was obviously very very well tutored in a short amount of time and she seemed to hold her own… I know most of the world was wondering if we’d see some sort of meltdown. And Biden, who was pretty much an unknown factor to me, impressed me quite a bit after he woke up and stopped being boring. My main complaint was Palin changing the topic several times (hello, that topic was already discussed, I’m interested to hear what you have to say about the current one) and her folksy twang. I know<\/i> it is probably a very calculated thing from the campaign and a lot of people probably did respond to her “girl next door” type of attitude. But it pissed me off. A) pronounce words correctly, goddamnit (I’m not talking about accents here, I’m talking about mangling words like NUCLEAR) and B) try to sound intelligent and poised. She sort of managed to sound like she knew what she was talking about. But highly rehearsed. She was told what to say, and she said it well. I still have absolutely no faith that she actually understands the issues beyond the script. “I’m a soccer mom.” Ugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So congress passed the bailout bill today. And I’m just freaking pissed off. Not because the bailout itself got passed – as I said previously, I don’t really understand the financial implications and am not really affected by the stock market. I’m pissed because it failed the first time and passed the second. I’m pissed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}