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[wickedglitter]

Anyone familiar with the dgate boards ( a community forum for a role playing game I played a few years back ) knows that the political debates on those boards can make you wanna kill some people and can get very heated. I usually try to stay out of them, but this guy Joel started a thread asking people if they'd changed their minds about what they thought of Obama now that he passed this stimulus package. He went on to say pretty much in his words that Obama is the devil, we're going to hell in a handbasket, and keeps posting black and white pictures from the great depression. Now if you read my journal from a few years ago, I was very much hurting for money, couldn't find a job, and was selling plasma to maintain stable. We are in a bad economy right now, but all this end of the world great depression talk makes me laugh. That stimulus package that passed probably does have alot of pork in it, I won't even deny it. All I know is that government is gonna help me pay the outrageous Cobra insurance this year and that's good enough for someone with Cancer. Instead of writing a long drawn out story about how I was struggling to get by even before all this economy shit went down, writing about how shitty the healthcare system is, I decided I would just make fun of the endless black and white sad pics he was posting. I found just the pic on good ol pundintkitchen


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I'm terrible, I know. Hey, I have chosen between paying the light bill or buying food before. I have gone to bed hungry. I'm greatful for what I have, and I think its really a low blow to put up pictures of the great depression and yell at people to call their congress people before its too late. One person told him he needs to go lobby himself and stop trying to get everyone else to.

I really don't like politics much because its so hard for people not to take it personal and remain civil when discussing them. I like to throw in the jokes to try to keep the mood from crushing everyone.

Comments

[ker-thwap.livejournal.com]

Joel is often correct in theory, but fails when it comes down to the practical details. Obama is pretty much leading us towards a huge huge government, along with the Democratically controlled House and Senate, and even a few Republicans.

The banking system has pretty much already been socialized, it's just a matter of degree. Historically, we're in a much different place that we were during the Great Depression. The "banking crisis" is in a large part a contrived bookkeeping farce. The banks really have a lot of cash available, it would be easy enough for the government to just take over Citi, clean it up and sell it back to business world. The danger is that Barney Frank and those losers might want to keep it as a government plaything, so they can give the money to their buddies and special causes.

Let's be honest

[kittenwench.livejournal.com]

Who else was surprised he actually posted pictures of black people suffering from the Great Depression? I had the odds of that at like 500-1.

[godess-of-night.livejournal.com]

Humor in light of stressful situations is always a good thing.

If it weren't for my tax return, i would not be able to pay all my bills this pay day. i just hope they stop cutting our hours before i run out.