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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
So many people on here desperately pretending there's no economic problems. I've rarely seen so many concerntrolls. We even have aljackson who doesn't seem to understand tenses. He states that because we're not necessarily in a recession now we can't have a depression later. The "thinking" that goes into these rebuttals is astoundingly bad, most of which sums to "Taxes Bad! Voodoo Economics works! I don't actually understand how taxation is currently set up in this country, but if you suggest anything else you're a commie!"
Really, if that's the best you've got, no wonder the Right Wing prefers to substitute he said/she said and faux "character" issues for any substantive policy debate. Heck, square_n_level doesn't even understand the concept of "income". With people like these, how can you have a conversation? They lack the basic education and understanding necessary to move beyond "but Limbaugh said so!"
You said, "I'm sorry I'm losing my temper, but if Salon.com splits 50/50 on this stuff then we're going careen right over the cliff."
By far most of the posters here are coming from somewhere else. This article must have been linked to a conservative website. I see few names I recognize. I've clicked on maybe 12 names and most of them just registered and are writing their first letters today.
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with other people joining in, but since you're frustrated I wanted to point out that most of these people are not Salon readers.
So while we teeter on the edge of this cliff, most of us too dumb to understand the fundamentals of how we got here because we have been told for the past decade that the fundamentals are sound, whatever the fundamentals are, shouldn’t we be concerned about how many prospective casualties there might be if the fundamentals prove to be bad, fundamentally?
The Fed can only do so much to short-circuit a disaster if those snarkey fundamentals continue surfacing like hideous monsters from a sci-fi movie. Instead of helplessly waiting for the next shoe to drop while the privileged 20% move their “fundamentals” off shore and yacht around the world, why can’t we help ourselves?
Here’s why. As Mr. Leonard so aptly puts it, “Americans are less equipped to weather the storm than they have been since, well, the Great Depression.” The first thing today’s teenagers demand when they come of age is, yeah, their driver’s license. Mr. Leonard’s three-step do-it-yourself action plan should include one more vital step——financial responsibility. How many high schools include classes in finances? How many teenagers are taught to maintain a checkbook, save money regularly and invest wisely?
I submit to you that when every American child, rich or poor, all races is required to study and understand what money is for and how to use it, they will be IN CONTROL of their own finances and their own futures. And no one will be able to scam them into crappy mortgages. Can you imagine a financially educated America? Even when some of those kids decide to major in sociology or music——what’s wrong with being financially independent? It’s a no-brainer.
No Hoovervilles in this crisis? Maybe you haven't seen the footage of the LA Tent City that's sprung up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnnOOo6tRs8
I'm a disabled mom of a four year old son, and also an orphan I know all to well that what the government can give in times of crisis is limited. I now live with my fiance whom has a job but do to not being able to get a car I stay home and care for my son. My fiances mom lets us live for free in the other side of the duplex she owns.We pay our share of the bills and that takes up all the money we have.This is our income $600 work money and $190 government aid $280 Food stamps for 3 people. I wash clothes by hand, and since I can't work I choose to go hungery when the food runs low. No cable, no fancy T.V., a bed like steel to sleep on and no new clothes. SSI takes years to get I'm still waiting. My fiances mom is elderly and still works and can handle little stress so a yelling kid in the car everyday would push her over the edge. If per say I do work the cost of child care would take all the money. A near by food bank would be nice but we do not have one hear so Our food is verry low. I already live in the depreshion. It's only a matter of time before the government aid gets cut with so many unemployed. Before comeing here my son and I where liveing homeless and from shelter to shelter on houseing lists for over a year.We don't even have medical help the state of Alabama is in dire need.I have PTSD, bipoler, boarderline personalitys and crohns disease and high blood presure with no medical help I have to live in Alabama for a year to get help. While your eating fat and enjoying your nice T.V. and cable others right here in America are starving and sick. I have gone everywhere for help and you might be next. Most of the U.S. is a pay check away from being homeless. I mean crap my kid runs around in high waters. He's a blessing but his biological father bailed on me and plays job ping pong so child support can't be collected and when it is the government takes it to pay back what they are giveing me already. I count my blessing everyday, with out the kindness of my fiances mom we would not even be able to get an apartment.Please do not ignore the huge possability of our economy crashing realy hard most people could not survive and just because we are poor does not mean we are worthless, the poorest of this world are gonna be your survival teachers, and your mental support when you are where we are. I have been blessed with great strength but I have been threw your worst nightmares. Do not under estimate the facts that this article speaks about prepare, and pray.
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