So the House didn't pass the bill that is supposed to bail out Wall Street yesterday, and I'm wondering if this is going to be a good thing or a bad thing. It does not really seem fair to me that the citizens of the United States should have to pick up the tab on what was apparently years and years of unregulated loan practices. And all of this with the hope that one day the American people may profit from buying all these assets that no one really even knows what they are worth. I am no fuckin genius when it comes to politics but from what I can already tell about the Bush administration and how the president is basically trying to once again bully the American public into following along with one of his economic policies to me sounds like a disaster in the making. So we have practically a decade of crooks on Wall Street using questionably lending practices that didn't follow procedure, and now we are all stuck with having to pay for the government to clean up their mess. Fuckin horseshit if you ask me, and I'm sure Bush and everyone in his adminstration is going to find a way to amass huge profits from it all in one way or another.
Looking back at things a previous version of yourself has written can say a lot about how a person develops. I have gone back and read some of my earlier posts on this blog and I am surprised at how much further I have moved forward in my life as a person. I feel that I can articulate myself much more efficiently and don't rely so much on cliche modes of speech or resorting to using obscenities to punctuate how I feel towards certain things. I have either deleted or reverted a lot of my posts back to drafts because at this point I can't read much of them and not cringe. I have done a lot of things with my life over the last fifteen years since I started this blog. I mainly meant to create it as a mental scrapbook, something I could look back on and maybe be a little proud of. I felt pretty much the exact opposite. I really came off as negative and focusing on things that while being important, I had little or no control over. I have come to realize that the world I live in can ...
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