Random Political/Economic Observations...



1. Dear Ol' Grampy McCain, I know that modern technology like Blackberries, email, computers, and indoor plumbing sometimes leaves you confounded, but as noted over here, an overhead projector is not the same as a planetarium projector. By the way, in our current political system, it is our representatives' job to get money to their district. That's why so many people hate the Congress, yet re-elect their representatives year after year. And that's why it was a bipartisan group of Illinois reps who asked for the money. Also by the way, that 3 million dollars Ol' Grampy McCain kept complaining about? It was never distributed anyway. Also, by the way, given the number of visitors that the Adler Planetarium has the opportunity to educate over the course of a year, 3 million dollars is nothing. (And let's ignore the fact that McGrumpy himself asked for $10 million for the University of Arizona in 2006.)

2. What was up with Ol' Grampy McCranky's plan to buy up home mortgages? That really had to make real conservatives' heads explode (if there are any left.) So here we have a Angry McGrumpsalot, a socialist or a communist or whatever, and who probably hasn't seen the inside of a church since the Reformation, as the nominee of a party of bunch of robber baron Christian fundamentalists. Thank goodness he's got the Alaska airhead to "balance the ticket."

3. I know it's unpopular to ever blame anything on the American people during an election season (or ever), but is anyone ever going to mention that some people just were idiots when it came to buying a house? When we bought 10 years ago, we were approved for a mortgage that was almost 5 times higher than the house we ended up actually buying. But we bought a reasonable house at a reasonable price because, well .... because, quite frankly, we're not idiots. And now, as usual in this life, the responsible people are going to pay for the mistakes of idiots. When will we responsible people ever learn that responsibility doesn't pay? Ten years later we learn that we could have bought a Garage Mahal McMansion for a zillion dollars, and when we couldn't afford it, just let the government bail us out. Instead I gave up having a rumpus room for an affordable mortgage payment. Curses.

4. As someone who actually lives on Main Street, I'm glad to see our issues finally being addressed. As you know by now, we Main Streeters are all identical. We spend every night sitting around the kitchen table, trying to figure out how to send little Sally to college. If you don't think that Brian and I don't have a hard time figuring out how to send little Sally to college when we don't know anyone named Sally, and we don't have any kids, you, my friends, are mistaken! It's extremely difficult (but not impossible) to figure out how to send someone to college who doesn't exist! By the way, what the heck do the rest of you lazy people do with your time? Anyway, if you live on Washington Street, or State Street, or First Street, tough luck. You've had it easy for the last 8 years as your issues got addressed and ours were ignored. Karma's a bitch, baby. And you latte swilling commies living on Avenues, Parkways, Courts -- or worse, Boulevards -- have got four years of begging for crumbs from our table. Get used to it.

5. Dear Joe, no good beer comes in a six pack. Please make a note of it.

Posted: Thu - October 9, 2008 at 10:13 AM        

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