Monkeyfister

I become more angry, and more depressed.

When is the Obama Administration going to understand that today's GOP cannot be taken at faith. That they are completely untrustworthy, and have placed their Party over the good of the Nation?

When is the Democratic Party going to understand that they won, and need to treat the GOP the EXACT same way that the GOP treated them for the past 12 years simply to accomplish the goal of moving the Country to the place that it needs to be moved to in order to simply survive?

When are the Villagers going to accept that this Country, and its very existence are in a state of dire peril, and that the current paradigm is now useless, and over, and MUST change to something very different?

You know what? They aren't, and they will NEVER grasp that.

Today, the Senate took out the Mass Transit part of the stimulus bill. No investment in trains or buses, and no money to help cities and regions pay for those services. Fucking obstructionist, anti-American Republicans.

Real altEnergy investment is next to nil. Because Republicans told the Villagers that non of that would be "stimulous."

A SUPERTRAIN project would have put many, many people to work in REAL PRODUCTION. But no. Republicans told the Villagers that non of that would be "stimulous."

Solarizing 3-Million single-family homes at government expense would also put hundreds of thousands to work, and would only represent 10% of this 900-Billion dollar monstrosity of mainly, now, tax breaks for the rich, Corporations, and the "Banks" that created the mess in the first place. Boosting the tax breaks for putting PVs on Corporate roofs would have helped immensely. We'd also could have cut CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions greatly, and cut our oil usage. But no. Republicans told the Villagers that non of that would be "stimulous."

Bonuses to the Auto Industry to get the hybrids and electric cars rolling, as well as a huge tax break to turn out mag-lev or electric locomotives would have aided in this. But no. Republicans told the Villagers that non of that would be "stimulous."

Legalizing Hemp for fiber and oil-products would be free, and be a cash cow. Legalizing and regulating Marijuana the same way as alcohol would first, boost tax revenue, and second relieve states and cities of millions of dollars annually in court and incarceration costs. But no. Republicans told the Villagers that non of that would be "stimulous," and we have a "War On some Drugs," doncha know.

These were many of the ideas proposed, not necessarily in the Bill, but proposed at the My Obama site and by others, and me.

But, no. But, no.

Instead...

It's tax breaks for the wealthy, and very little help for struggling workers and Home-Owners, no breaks for those of us struggling to try and pay down our fucking STULOANS. No new actual PRODUCTION projects for a new 21st Century American Reality, while car dealerships go tits-up and stiff us with the trade-in value loans of our old cars. The rest of us down here get to get our fucking heads stomped so that the idle rich can stay that way, piss on us, and tell us it is raining fucking sunshine, unicorns, ponies, kittens and gold. Yeah-- the unicorns are coming at us horn-point down; the ponies-- hooves first; kittens-- claws-out; the sunshine is frying us alive; and the gold is simply the greedy rich bastards' piss pounding holes in our heads.

And Bernie Madoff whines about being a "prisoner in his own home," while his new security team is not allowed to monitor his transfer of illegal assets out of the Country.

Are they putting fucking Prozac in our public water supplies to keep us from going the route of China, India, Europe and Great Britain? What the fuck is wrong with my fellow Americans that they are so willing to just roll over and take this raping?

Here is a little local example of what I am seeing...
Back in August, I put out a warning to all of my co-workers to pull out of whatever TSP (retirement) accounts they might be in, and get IMMEDIATELY into the TSP "G" fund (Special Treasuries and Securities not part of the public markets). At least fifty of my 161 co-workers listened to me, and over the past few months, they have come to me to personally thank me for looking out for them.

Today, one of my closest co-workers told me that he lost his ass (he was hoping to retire this year) by not listening to me. Actually, he takes his lunch in his car, listening to Rush fucking Limbaugh. He and a few others in my Division laughed out loud at me when I laid out the sheaves of graphs and reports to them. They didn't even look at them.

"A" sneered at me, and encouraged the others to scoff me and my liberally liberal anti-Bush views. Of course, three weeks later, the fund he was in, that was averaging 12% in August suddenly was losing 21%-- yes, over 150% loss... and it's not moving. He told me this today, and I told him to immediately move into the "G" fund, as AT LEAST it is making .32% a month and won't go below zero. He's 65, and his bar-room/golf course (Republican) "advisers" told him to just stay with it... it'll come around.

Yes, he's a dittomonkey, but, he's a very talented man, and I still respect him, and consider him a friend. I looked him right in the eyes today, and told him to not listen to his Republican buddies. I said, "Just look at reality, and take the .32% gain, instead of a 20.59% monthly loss." I asked him point-blank-- "What the hell is wrong with you that you can't see that a little gain is better than a huge loss?" He simply wouldn't listen, and got pissed at me. Shouted some "You're just a fucking negative Liberal" nonsense, and stormed off.

THAT is the state of the Limbaugh/Joe-The-Not-A-Plumber/Sarah Palin-lovin' Republican base. There is a ZERO grasp of Reality amongst them.

THAT is the problem with trying to reason with Republicans on ANY level. It cannot be done.

This Administration and Congress and Senate simply shouldn't try to reason with or deal with them. It's hopeless and senseless.

GET THE WORK DONE THAT NEEDS TO GET DONE, and FUCK the Republicans. Push the Bills through like they did to us. At least we'll be doing some GOOD for our fellow 95%ers.

I just can't look at what's going on any more, and want to try and make sense of it here. It's hurting me in every way possible. Politics isn't the answer, The President is BUSYBUSYBUSY shunning Progressives, The TV Village is BUSSYBUSYBUSY attacking Obama and already calling him a failure after barely two weeks, the other Media is helping that effort. With no one on our side, and our Lawmakers ignoring us at the switchboards, all I can say is that...

We are on our own, and the best things to do are to plant a huge garden, buy: a .308 bolt action rifle, a .22 rifle or pistol, a 12-gauge shotgun, either a 9mm or 45cal. pistol, and either an AR-15 or an AK-47, and a load of high-cap magazines and ammo for all the rifles and pistols, and learn how to use and maintain them. Invest in storeable foods, and drinking water, a proper water purifier, and a solar cooker, learn to hunt, and learn some REAL skills for starters, if you want to make it through this shit alive. Die-Off is already happening. Anti-Globalism/Anti-Corporatist riots are wide-spread and growing across the globe. Unless they up the Prozac in America's Public water supplies, by July, those riots will arrive here in force. Plenty of our fellow Citizens' Unemployment Benefits are running out already.

My Sidebar is chock full of links to the resources you need to learn the skills and means of surviving this nightmare. Come April, we will get the BIG PICTURE of what is to come, and then it will start to get bad. I contend that we are in the top of the Fifth Inning of this Baseball Game of Collapse, and we have a LOOOONG way to go.

US Households are 1/3 the way down to a point of actual de-leveraging (everyone paying down debts, and saving cash), the bastarly top 5% will be the last to go, and only once they are forced to pawn the Wedgewood; Commercial Real Estate has barely started that trend; Retail has utterly fucked themselves; Banks and "Banks" are lying out their assholes, while stealing our money, keeping two sets of books-- ENRON-style. The entire Financial Sector has been run as one big Ponzi scheme for the past eight years, but if you go to Yahoo Finanance, and look at the interactive DOW chart, you will see that every FQ month marker is charting a new low, and the trend is, of course, down.

It is OVER, and you need to look after yourself, and your neighbors and family right now.

The day we hear that the FED has started to buy US Treasuries, it will be too late. THAT will mark the absolute end of everything that most Americans accept as "normal." Expect that announcement some time between June and October. Three weeks ago, the FED announced that they are "standing by" to buy the Treasuries. It's only a matter of time.

I've covered all this previously. It is all tagged. The 2006-2008 archives here aren't that hard to search (Collapse, Federal Reserve, The FED, Bernanke, Treasury, Paulson). I'm not Doctor of Economics ATRIOS, who posts a half-coherent, totally esoteric sentence (with no links) and expects you to immediately understand his Doctoral knowledge. It's all here, and I don't post a lot, so it's easy to comb through the archives.

Shoot that 52" plasma screen TV and get rid of the cable, and start reading more Nouriel Roubini, Paul Krugman, Calculated Risk, James Kunstler, Joe Bageant, Chris Hedges, Richard Heinberg, and Energy Bulletin. Most of those links are in my sidebar.

Your Cable TV is doing nothing but making you passive, couch-laying lazy, and is rotting your brain with Corporatist-Consumerist messaging. GET RID OF IT. There is NOTHING you need there.

For THREE DAYS RUNNING, I've heard NOTHING but stoopid conversations about those GOD DAMNED Super Bowl Ads. THAT bullshit and all its distraction is killing us-- keeping us diverted from what is important, and effecting our lives. The sooner you kill your TV, the sooner you will wake up from "Reality TV" to what is really, and honestly happening to us.

We NEED YOU. HERE. NOW.



I apologize for not taking part in B.A.Days. I really do. But, damn... It's all just hurt me. It's put me in a very bad way, that forced me to simply stay away as much as I could. I feel fucked by my audacity to hope. Gobbless 'murka. We're fucked if this is all we can can be.


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