Bail Out America Not Big Business

The bail out failed to pass. I am actually happy about it. 700 billion to help out businesses that ran their business into the ground. That makes perfect sense. They will only do it again. Or do so under another business' name. Come on already, if we have that kind of money available to us, spread the wealth around Washington, we have people out here struggling to make ends meet just to buy gas to go to work.

This is what bothers me the most. Washington, DC, is out of touch with the REAL world. They have no concept of what middle class and lower, America is doing or how we are getting by. Why do they think homes are being foreclosed on right and left, because the companies were poorly run??? HELLO, MC FLY......people are not and cannot pay their bills. In part because the stupid mortgage companies let them have loans in excess of their income ratio but also because the home owner probably started living large when they got the larger home.

So instead of fretting over the people who have lost their homes, we have decided to bail out the companies that screwed these people. The companies that probably knew at the onset that they were playing with fire but figured they could turn the foreclosed house around and around and make lots of money off one house. Similiar to the Buy Here, Pay Here, Auto Lots. They sell the same auto to different people a number of times. Repossessing it when the loan goes into default. But I think with the car business there are more avenues to get rid of a car, like auctions and the junk yard. There is only one way to make money on a house, sell the house or it sits empty.

So I will say it again, pass all those billions out to those of us that NEED the money. Those of us that could use a home, a car, a retirement fund, a college fund. groceries in the pantry or a bed to sleep on. I am sorry their business failed. A lot of us have had to start over, now it's their turn.

It's just my idea with what to do with the money, coming from the Ground Floor, it's Vega, hoping someone will save me if it starts to flood in here.

McCain Stomps Obama

Last night in the presidential debate McCain spoke of foreign policy and foreign leaders rattling off numbers, countries and names as if the events had just happened the day before. He made it clearly obvious that he was not only aware of what is going on outside of the United States, he was aware of what has been going on for years. He quoted meetings and summits and years of those times and who was in attendance. He related the current state of the countries we are most concerned of in the Middle East and what we should be working toward for our military troops in the war. He related a touching story of wearing a fallen soldier's bracelet for the soldier's mother.

Obama says he has a bracelet too. That was his counter. In fact that is all Obama could do is counter because he does not know half of what McCain knows. It was obvious that Obama was getting angry and was controlling his temper while standing at his podium getting verbally tossed from side to side of the room. Because McCain beat the heck out of him with his vast knowledge of the world, life and the military. When it came Obama's turn to make a statement, his were well rehearsed and memorized. Through the television you could feel him hitting the key points and making emphasis on the right notes, raising his voice at just the right time.

Quietly McCain would rebut, with something profound like, "Senator Obama", showing all due respect to the man, is mistaken about .......strategies, or a number of other things that Obama seemed to not quite understand but was talking about. Personally I felt bad for Obama. He was mad at not getting his point across and getting his cheers. He did not have his supporters filling him full of himself when they should tell him the truth. The American people have just seen who of the two people running for president actually knows what they are talking about.

Palin is a Racist Moose Hunter, Watch Out Jews

Somehow Congressman Hastings from the great state of Florida has gotten the idea that women from Alaska who carry guns and shoot at moose are also apt to do something to Jews and Blacks in this country. At least that is what he recently told a group in Florida. He was speaking about Governor Palin giving his opinion of her ability to be vice presidential material.

He came across sounding like an idiot. How could anyone correlate the scenario he has proposed. I would think it is safe to say and correct me if I am wrong, NRA, but most hunters do not shoot at people. They shoot for the sport of killing game and that is not human life. They also are not racists to boot because they are hunters, carrying a gun and going after moose. This stereotype that the Congressman has conjured up is insulting to the vast majority of the American public and her ancestry. Has he forgotten how we came to to this land, how we fed ourselves and protected ourselves. This is the foundation of America to be gun-toting and killing moose.

Additionally, we started this country, if you can remember Congressman Hasting, as a melting pot, with all different types of people from the world. People of European descent to include Jewish lineage and the African people who were taken into slavery and later freed to become African Americans. I hardly thought I would give a history lesson over a silly old moose, but Congressman you are far removed from the American people and deeply afraid Obama is going to lose.

There's Women against Palin?

There is a blog dedicated to women who are against Palin being the vice president. They are requesting women to sign a petition to, what? overthrow her if she and Senator McCain are elected? I am not sure what their plan is.

What amazes me is the blog is littered with the history of women and how we have struggled through to time to earn the right to vote, to earn equal pay, equality in the workplace, this list goes on and on. They do not want a woman vice president. Why? I am not completely sure. She is not pro-life, is a major issue but other than that I did not come across anything but that she is VAPID.
Well most of Washington, DC is vapid, so that is a given.

But to not embrace the very thing women have been fighting for, for years, the breaking of the glass ceiling, I do not understand. Granted she does not support all of your issues, but she is a sister, mother, daughter who has finally been put in the hot seat and may actually make the move into the forbidden area.

Sure there may be other women qualified to do the job, but she has been selected, and women should rally to support her, not a party, not a position, but her as a woman because we all damn well know she is going to need it. We should be working to get her in office if we ever want to see a woman President in our lifetime.

I am NOT a millionaire.

Once again I managed to lose out on, this time, $43 million dollars. I don't understand how I can't pick the correct numbers to hit this jackpot. People do it everyday. Some people win it more than once. I had 5 entries totaling 30 numbers and only selected 2 correct numbers.

Sometimes I feel destined to remain in the place I am in. I am comfortable, but there is always something inside saying there is more. I am more, I should be doing something else, there is something greater. So daily I am in a constant battle within myself to achieve some greatness. Then I have to ask myself is greatness achieving some type of fame?

My passion has been writing. I have written since a young girl. It has been my friend, therapist and sounding board. I have run to my journals for solace and in joy. My life has been chronicled. I have pages and pages of words that flow like music to me. It is in there I feel is my greatness and I feel each of us have a greatness to give this world. I continue to strive to achieve it.

So why can't I win a jackpot of $43 million dollars? Wouldn't that make my life so much more simple. The complications of daily life would fall away with the right amount of money to solve the issues that arise. Unfortunately no amount of money will put the right words together to form a book or a collection of poetry. It's back to the keyboard and long nights.

You Gotta Start Somewhere

As I am just branching out into the blogger world, I have to begin somewhere so it might as well be the ground floor. The beginning. Work from the ground up so to speak, as they say, all those cliques. I am willing to put some effort into this, to learn the ways of the blog world, spend time writing, researching and conversing with fellow writers. I am willing to give it a try.

What amazes me is the lack of that effort in SOME of today's young adults. Please note I did not say all young adults. I know there are high achievers or just plain achievers out there, but I see more of the, I just want to get by on the least effort, than I have ever seen in my life. I wonder if it is the parents' fault. Hold on, parents, don't go to over the top yet. The reason I say this is because I am a parent of one of these adults who just does not care to do anything beyond a job here or there. He falls into my classification of young adults who feel that the world owes them something and they are going to sit back and wait for it.

He has no real dream for the future, no hope or desire for anything. He would probably tell you an entire list of material items he would love to own but not how he plans on getting them. I ask him and others like him, don't you have a dream to be a certain type of person? Live in a certain place in the world? Buy a house, car, get married, play with your children, or spend weekends on the beach? I don't get much for an answer. They want all that but don't want to work to get any of it. Work, you know like maybe getting your hands dirty and calloused. Working two jobs to make ends meet or not shopping at the mall until you save enough money to buy a reliable car.

I wonder if I gave him and his brother too much, because when as I grew up we went without and I did not want my kids to go through that life. Did my parents by default do the best thing for me and my sister? All I could tell you is that I graduated high school, started my life and have never looked back.

So I have spent a few times on the ground floor, learning the ropes and working my way up. Here I am again.