Why Main Street Deserves the $700 Billion

I was a jack-of-all-trades before I married at 38.  I am now a jack-of-no-trade.  Divorced and working with a fee-for-employment broker in a job of only speculative pay; most days, no pay.

I try to sell on a playing field that does not give me the same opportunities as others.  I do without.  I watch others do the same.

I don’t want to break my sense of ethics in a time when far too many lack even one source of income but our economy forces those at the bottom to break the monstrous, puss-filled heads of the wealthy.  Just seven years after the terrorists attacked the United States on 9/11/2001, and thanks to the incompetence of “the Great Depression student,” Ben Bernanke, the poor and disenfranchised are now forced to beg for help while Wall Street escapes the pain again.  Crime will rise.

Without a shadow of doubt, excess amounts of money concentrated in the hands of the few eventually increases the misery of those who cannot keep up.  While our Yale-educated leaders try to figure out how to keep the foundation of our economy, credit, from failing, they are yet to understand the importance and simplicity of humanity.

Credit cannot be given to people who longer exist.  If a person becomes disenfranchised, impoverished, or sick because of the pandemic economic crisis, that person — for all credit purposes — will no longer exist. 

Taking $700 billion dollars and giving it Wall Street not only does not help Main Street, it feeds into the policies and principles that generated the worst disaster in U.S. history, the event that initiated Wall Street’s over-exuberance, the final aftermath of 9/11.  The stupidity of, first, Alan Greenspan leaving interest rates low in the face of outrageous inflation in the housing market; then, the stupidity of, the second, Ben Bernanke in continuing with Greenspan’s head-cocked-in-ass approach is what led to 9/11/2008. 

In the end, it appears the terrorists may have won.  Their purpose for attacking the U.S. symbol of economic power was to show us, not that they could know down a couple of buildings with two single bounds.  It was to show us that they could — in spite of our excessively educated leadership — that a few simpletons could actually knock down our economy.

It would do the leadership of the U.S. well to listen to a few simpletons.  Some of us are asking:

Are we not barbarians to let the rich become excessively rich without control?  Are we so stupid as to think that those who can afford their Golden Parachutes ever deserved them, as they squashed the lives of those not so lucky?  Are we not our brothers’ keepers?  Are we not humane?

We are.  Our leaders are not.

Vote Obama for a change in the policies of the Bush Dynasty.  Put an end to the War on Poor.  Help make sure that the Paulson’s and their wealthy cohorts never step foot in Capital Hill again.  Vote Obama.

~ by tainastaboos on September 29, 2008.