Really Pissed Off!

It was a little over a year ago when the most of nation felt that the hands of government had been handed to a President that would set us towards a new direction, even in an economic crisis. A year has passed and the nation seems to be no better off and its government in total gridlock.

I’ve been biding my time on this one as the Senate has continued to strip all of the “Reform” from H.R, 3962, passed on November 7, 2009. The U.S. Senate continues to obstruct any meaningful reform for the General Public, whether it is The Credit Card Holder’s Bill of Rights or the Health Reform Act of 2009. In nearly every case, 100 men and women, elected by their constituency, have blindly followed the money trail left by the Lobbyists of Corporate America to screw the American Public!

We have come to the end of the road as far as any bi-partisan Health Care Reform! First of all, there was never going to be any give by the Republicans on this issue, or for any other. For the past nine months, I’ve watched President Obama attempt to deal with not so “loyal opposition” in an attempt to reach a bi-partisan Health Care Bill.

Just in case you haven’t looked at your latest credit card statement or that letter in fine print from your bank regarding your credit card that you tossed away, there is a good chance that your interest rate just went up! The banks that you and I have just bailed out to the tune of nearly $200 billion taxpayer dollars are arbitrarily increasing their interest rates on nearly any account they decide is delinquent, endanger of default or in good standing!

A month has passed since our take on the Economic Crisis, and all the great minds advising President Obama have little to show for their efforts. Although we may be in uncharted territory, there is one possible solution to finding the bottom of this Depression. Unfortunately, it comes with a big price and a heavy heart for the tax payer.

After listening to the President and Congress, it is becoming apparent that everyone has missed point regarding turning the Economy around. With any patient undergoing a major trauma, you first must stop the bleeding! In this case, the bleeding is the continuing foreclosure rate increase, which is bleeding the Economy dry.

The time is near when we can speak of President George W. Bush in the past tense, although he leaves a living legacy, which will probably outlive most of those who bother to read this. This legacy has been placed at the feet of President Barack Obama, who will take the responsibility of undoing what’s been done to America over these eight painful years. As the curtain closes on the Bush Administration, the future of America has not looked this dim since the election of Abraham Lincoln and the shadow of a Civil War.

I have purchased 4 copies of the PC version of FAR CRY 2. I have had a continuous problem with their game server. You can see many online games, few of which shows a ping of 9999. One of these is my son's gane. The server will not allow you to connect to these games. I have e-mailed Ubisoft about the problem and the keep saying that it is a problem in my end with the internet security software and router firmware not being updated. The server also disconnects your account fron the server in the middle of a game.

Although I slept through Economics 101 when I was in college, you don’t need a degree in Economics to figure out that the only way to stop this economic landslide is to stop the loss of jobs and to create new jobs for a new “Economy!” The latest figure released for the month of November for the number of jobs lost was 533,000! now that the government has finally decided that we’re in a Recession, which began in December 2007,we’ve lost 1.9 million jobs and counting! What’s the outlook for 2009? That’s a question without an answer!

It appears that we have come to the edge of the precipice, as the “Big Three” face bankruptcy! Former GM CEO Charles Wilson has been quoted as saying “What’s good for General Motors is good for the country.” Actually, what Wilson said was ….”What’s good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.” Although misquoted for the past 55 years, unfortunately there is nothing further from the truth in this disastrous Economy! It also can be said for the other “Big Two”!