User 265729

Think of These as Short-Term Troubles

Short term... Sure... I guess it really depends on what you mean by the "short term." Do you mean a lifetime? Dozens of lifetimes? Putting the burden of the banks mistakes on my children's, children? Is that short term?

Let's look into our crystal ball, into the future decades... I see an economy in shambles as a result of greed and spending too far into the future by using credit recklessly and exploiting limited resources at the expense of everyone on this planet. I see oil rising to 200-500 bbl if there is every a slightest up tick in our economy. The result, of course, is the continued stagnation of the economy due to high energy prices.

Alternative energy? How? Our government supports Wall Street greed over everything else. Wind power and other alternative resource development will stagnate; cities will be unable to develop mass transit systems with a $700 billion monkey on our back. Fix Main Street? Don't you think $700 billion for our nation's schools would help Main Street? Don't you thin $700 billion for a national health care program would help Main Street?

Has anyone ever seen the head of Health and Human Services or the Department of Education come out and say something like We need $700 billion for our schools next month or our children's and society's future are at risk! Or, Mr President! We need $700 billion for universal health coverage by next week! We need to protect our citizen's health!

Paulson and Bush are bull crap. Wall Street has gotten our nation into a hole we may never be able to dig our way out of. The Madison Avenue types are out on the blogs, television and radio, telling us it ain't so and to pull out our Visa cards and keep on spending.

What a pathetic bunch...