The stock market is cratering or... Twenty-six days to E-Day

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Of course the most important happening today is the original CSI season premiere.
I had to tape it so I haven't actually seen it but I'm going to try to watch it before I go to bed tonight.

The continuing downward trend of the stock market is one hell of a scary economic situation.
No matter what anyone says there's no way to know what direction our country is going in right now.
This will be a rather dismal Christmas for a lot of people.
I'm all ready thinking of ways I can cut significantly down on spending... not that we spent tons of money on Christmas before.
The global economy isn't doing much better either.

I'm very upset by the nasty character assassination going on in the election.
In this economic atmosphere with people legitimately scared about the future (jobs, retirement, health care, oil bills...)
it is a very dangerous thing to do to whip up such animosity towards someone in particular.

Barack Obama is not the antichrist. He's a regular person just like Biden, Palin and McCain.
They are all different and they all have a stake in the American Dream.
This is the wonderful thing about the USA we have such a variety of people all co-existing and working side by side.
That is until someone tears us apart deliberately and pits friends, family and neighbors against each other...
While calling those people who think (or even look) differently from us the enemy.
Haven't we learned anything from the past?

Hard times bring out the best in some people while bringing out the worst traits in others.
We need leadership, good thoughtful, intelligent, understanding, leadership.
We're certainly not getting it now. Cheney and Bush aren't realistically doing Jack Squat.
No matter who wins in November I hope they can face the new reality in the US.
It ain't pretty right now and it might get pretty ugly in the future.
Let's hope for a recession and not a depression.

I want to believe Bush, I'd like to believe the candidates' optimism but...
It's my family's security and my kids future I'm concerned about now.

You know what? Reaganomics doesn't work. Trickle down theory didn't work.
Tax the top of the economic curve more, shut down their tax loop holes, there's nothing un-American about that!
Also how about some kind of taxes on the corporations that outsource jobs to other countries?
Just because they have a company in another country don't exempt them from import taxes.

If this economy recuperates sometime in the somewhat near future...
and there's a breather before the next crisis:

Fix It!!!

Get the best people together, the really intelligent ones not just someone off main street... and

FIX IT!!!

And do it BEFORE it gets so bad that the economy craters again.
The hard-working people of America deserve better.
And to all a g'night

Laura


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