Sign posts in the land of the free, the kingdom of deepening depression, the last best hope of mankind. You decide where they're pointing.- This cartoon in the New York Post. The paper has apologized, but come on! Why would it be monkey at all instead of depiction of a human? The whole idea of the cartoon is stupid anyway.
- Food banks across the country saw a 30-percent increase in "business" in 2008, and they are now serving many more of "the next layer of people" up from the chronically poor. People who had a job this time last year.
- The vast majority of states in the US dispense unemployment benefits via agreements with banks who issue plastic cards to the people needing them. And guess what? Banks all over the country are getting fat on fees they're collecting for use of the cards! Doubtless many of these bastards are recipients of the billions we taxpayers gave them to stay afloat.
- Well over 600,000 people went unemployed in January; the stock market dropped to its lowest point in six years.
- Chase Bank CEO Jamie Dimon, whose bank received $25 billion in bailout money, won't say how his establishment did last quarter. But he does have something to say about those damn deadbeats whose mortgages are higher than their homes are worth. And I quote: "I don't think just because someone's underwater they say I don't have to stay there. But they're supposed to pay the mortgage, and we should teach the American people, you're supposed to meet your obligations, not run from them." Can you believe these people?
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Guess what California is about to run out of? Money for unemployment. Big surprise.
Part of the stimulus package provides $$ to the states. I don't know whether they have the discretion to spend it on unemployment, but I think so. This may help stem the bleeding for a little while.
We have an obligation to make people like Mr. Dimon to pay for their wanton destruction.
Let that be one obligation we do not run away from.
We are just at the beginning of this mess. After enough suffering, it will get distinctly...ugly.
Montag,
You know I agree. Does it occur to you that the whole job of the so-called media for lo these many years has been and of course remains keeping the possibility of that "ugly" thing happening firmly hidden under mountains of trivia, irrelevance, and, please let us not forget, lies? Only a few of us are nurtured on something other than pablum and falsehood in this country. So only a few of us are able to recognize what's really happening.
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