Loko’s Domain You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

9Feb/090

Dear McCain

John McCain, you’ve called the new stimulus package generational theft. Even though you’ve voted for a $700 billion package when G. W. proposed it to bail out crooked Wall Street bankers and corrupt corporations. You stopped your campaign to fly to D.C. to throw in your vote, but when it comes to saving our country from eating itself alive and also to try to create thousands of jobs, you you call it generational theft. John, what would you know about Generational Theft?

Well, you may have an idea from experience yourself, Mr. McCain. Do you remember that you were part of a scandal in the late 80s that cost the tax payers of this country hundreds of billions of dollars? Adjusted for inflation, $500 billion in 1989 becomes over $830 billion in 2009. Generational Theft? Several generations after me will have to worry about paying for that and a war that you supported that solved no global issues, settled no debts, and resolved no conflicts.

You will support a debt driving war machine and support a bill that gave corporate fat cats billions of bailout money, but when it comes to investing in America’s infrastructure, you hesitate. Why? You’ve contradicted yourself over the last few weeks in regards to how you feel about tax cuts and the Obama package. Your own stimulus plan is nothing but tax cuts. Tax cuts do not work, that was obvious decades ago. Good riddance to trickle-down economics and pseudo-Reaganesque politicians.

Reagan was an idiot and to think that Bush tried to rub what greatness people saw in him from his coffin is beyond dumb. It is also beyond dumb that we have been calling McCain the second coming of Reagan for over 9 years now. Why? Because he contradicts himself constantly, could care less about popular opinion, and wants to rob the middle class while giving it to the rich in hopes it will magically float back down to us?

Isn’t it odd how the Democrats and Republicans completely reversed their views with each over the last fifty years? Except instead of a complete criss-cross, the Democrats became celebrities and the Republicans became old, rich white senile men.

Perhaps the next presidential race, which the good people of Wasilla, AK think begins in 2010 according to their massive Google search trends, will not be nearly as exciting as the 2008 election, but let’s hold out a little hope that the campaign won’t be based solely upon saving our economy once again.

4Dec/080

Deep job cuts at AT&T, DuPont, Viacom

Telecom to cut 12,000 jobs, while the chemical maker plans to reduce payroll by 2,500. The entertainment company will lose 850 workers.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/04/news/companies/ATNT/index.htm?postversion=2008120409

17Nov/080

Citigroup to cut more than 50,000 jobs

Citigroup said Monday it planned to cut more than 50,000 jobs, the latest move by the struggling bank to cut costs in order to weather the credit crisis plaguing Wall Street.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/17/news/companies/citigroup/index.htm