Reply #111: Sick and getting sicker...

[davidthegnome]

The saddest thing in that post, to me, is how the relationship between the husband and wife was destroyed. I've seen that, and I've lived it - economic hardships, going broke, whatever... it can break up families, and couples, very easily. When it comes down to not having a place to live - to having to move back in with your parents, I've survived that one too, and hey, I'm still here with mom and dad.

The seven hundred billion dollar question, for me, is... why are so many of our elected democrats supporting this farce? No matter how I examine it, it makes no moral or ethical sense.

Now I agree that some people definitely buy houses they can't afford. I agree that many of them act foolishly in trusting their banks and who ever they have to advise them on financial matters. But let's get real, only a slight few of us can afford such luxuries as an accountant, only a slight few of us are all that well educated (economically) to begin with. In such a situation, it would make sense to have many regulations, checks and balances, safe guards in place. To protect people, both from fraud, and from unwise decisions.

In an ideal society, I suppose that's what we'd have.

Instead, what we have is a National scam so enormous that it's breaking families, banks, gigantic companies, and untold numbers of our fellow Americans. Of course, I would say that, in general, the wealthy pricks who pulled it off deserve to be ruined. They do.

There is so much fraud involved that it's impossible to sift through all the shit to discover the leaders (inventors, whatever) of this con. We seem incapable of even holding those in high positions of authority accountable. So the blame is passed, not only to those who deserve it, but to people who are already suffering enough as it is. Families are being broken, jobs are being lost, hopes and dreams are becoming nothing but ashes.

Yet... somehow it is our duty, or at least our priority to bail out wall street and the corrupt bastards that created this mess through their greed? Somehow this plan is going forward, and those we should be able to count on to stand against it, to inform us of the facts, are not (and have no intention of) doing so.

Call me bitter, jaded, whatever... you'd probably be right. But is this the new hope I've been hearing of? The positive change for America's future? They should not be getting one penny of our money. Instead they're getting too many pennies to count.

I lost faith in our government eight years ago - but I did not believe until recently that I would lose my faith in the democrats I have supported for years. So few who will tell the truth, and those who do are tarred and feathered (metaphorically speaking) by their fellow politicians, the media, and doubtlessly numerous other friendly fellows.

This is worse than a crisis, it is beyond bizarre and beyond tyranny. It is the death of hope, it is slamming another nail into the coffin we once referred to as justice. And frankly... it's making me sick, and I'm already sick enough.

I'm almost ready to give up altogether, it's so hopelessly corrupt that I can't even conceive of how we can potentially create a brighter future. Not without first dismantling the system in place... and we all know how likely that is.

Fact of the matter is, our opinions, our beliefs, the power of the people... none of it means shit to these assholes at the top. All I can hope for is that eventually they destroy themselves through their own greed.