Politics, emotions, politics
Oct. 1st, 2008 08:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nancylebovI don't think these two conspiracies can be true at the same time.....
The bailout is a Republican plan to loot the treasury.
Republicans Released Ad Attacking Dems For Passing Bailout-- Before Vote Failed
Well, I guess they could both be true, but it seems like an excessively complicated plot, and if it was tried, it didn't work.
Other than that, here's a fine Don't panic, they're trying to con you parable, and a description of the emotions around this that matches mine remarkably well, except that he's saying "what's happened to my friends list?" and I'm saying "what's happened to my lj?"
Not quite my situation, but my health is decent, I'm not worried about money, and the weather has been excellent-- some rain, but the temperatures are lovely and there's been enough sunlight. It seems like we're heading for trouble, but there's been so much emergency-mongering with nothing happening in my immediate vicinity that I just don't feel it.
That being said, I'm comprehensively pissed off about them using raising FDIC insurance to $250,000/account to sweeten the bailout so it will pass. I realize this is politics as usual, but if the increased insurance is a good, overdue idea, they should just do it instead of holding it over people's heads to pass something the public doesn't want.
The bailout is a Republican plan to loot the treasury.
Republicans Released Ad Attacking Dems For Passing Bailout-- Before Vote Failed
Well, I guess they could both be true, but it seems like an excessively complicated plot, and if it was tried, it didn't work.
Other than that, here's a fine Don't panic, they're trying to con you parable, and a description of the emotions around this that matches mine remarkably well, except that he's saying "what's happened to my friends list?" and I'm saying "what's happened to my lj?"
I knew that food prices and energy prices and oil prices and rent prices are all going crazy, I know the most erudite and storied of our financial institutions are collapsing invisibly and silently just like the GLACIERS. But my brain is wired like an animal brain, not a god brain or a machine brain. I can't feel the difference. For all of this, I keep going to work, they keep paying me and that keeps being enough to keep me afloat. My expenses change and things get harder but there is not, from here, a cataclysm. When it hits, I don't know what I'd be able to do about it. I suppose this is why our reactions always have to be semi-mystical.
Not quite my situation, but my health is decent, I'm not worried about money, and the weather has been excellent-- some rain, but the temperatures are lovely and there's been enough sunlight. It seems like we're heading for trouble, but there's been so much emergency-mongering with nothing happening in my immediate vicinity that I just don't feel it.
That being said, I'm comprehensively pissed off about them using raising FDIC insurance to $250,000/account to sweeten the bailout so it will pass. I realize this is politics as usual, but if the increased insurance is a good, overdue idea, they should just do it instead of holding it over people's heads to pass something the public doesn't want.
