My Own Personal Hell

NAMBLA Members
Circle I Limbo

DMV Employees
Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind

Scientologists
Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow

General asshats
Circle IV Rolling Weights

Oakland Raider Fans
Circle V Stuck in Mud, Mangled

River Styx

PETA Members
Circle VI Buried for Eternity

River Phlegyas

Nancy Pelosi
Circle VII Burning Sands

Parents who bring squalling brats to R-rated movies
Circle IIX Immersed in Excrement

Osama bin Laden
Circle IX Frozen in Ice

Design your own hell

More Governmental Bailouts...Now to the Tune of $800 Billion!

This is a reply to Ryan Riojas’ post on Political Soup titled Does anybody know what’s going on?. He is talking about the new federal bailout to the tune of another $800 billion. I believe that that is entirely way too much of our taxpayer money going to those bankers and CEOs that caused this crisis in the first place. If you give more money to those people, you are just feeding the flames and making the problem worse. The government should give them that money only under conditions that will fix the problem and require oversight by not just the government, but by economists and other learned financial persons. They should also show accountability and responsibility. If the government keeps giving money to the wasteful bankers and CEOs, we will have a serious problem on our hands as they squander away our hard-earned money . It could put the country in dire straits for generations to come, and may even hinder our ability to defend ourselves.

Obamas New Workforce

A new article from Fox News says that President-Elect Barack Obama has declared the country is facing a huge economic crisis of historical proportions. Perhaps it is, or perhaps it is not.

Obama has outlined a plan to create nearly 2.5 million new jobs to rebuild the infrastructure of this country along with developing new energy sources and producing better, more efficient cars.

That is all well and good, but how about actually treating the disease, not the symptom? Maybe, as opposed to creating those jobs to prevent others from becoming unemployed as the economy crashes even further, Obama should actually fix the economy.

Some pundits compare this crisis to the Great Depression but others call it a recession, so who knows? It may actually get to be that bad. If it does, we as a nation are in big trouble. Those of us that are college undergrads may find ourselves with no job prospects when we graduate. In China, there was a college student protest because of the fact that there is a white collar job shortage. (See link for full article from the Statesman)

If our nation gets that bad it won’t just be college grads that are out of a job. It will also affect a lot of other people, such as Joe the CEO, Joe the Plumber, and Joe Six-Pack just to name a few.

I think that Obama’s idea to create new jobs will help the economic crisis, but will not cure it. For that to happen, the nation, both the citizenry and the government, needs to spend less and save more, which hopefully, will fix the economy and its many problems. Good luck getting the nation to do that, Mr. President.

A link to the original article is below: (The article actually has several typos and/or grammar errors.)

Obama's New Workforce