Forget about the mythical "Left". They mostly voted for Nader, what remains of the of the purists. Otherwise I guess you're calling "the left" Labor and most minorities. Anyway, add Nader votes to Gore's and 56% voted for someone other than Bush. You can support Bush all you want just don't fool yourself into thinking he won the popular vote and that everything's okay now. I support him now too because he's our president and I want him to do a good job for al our sakes. But I can now see that the massive malaise and confusion after the election was followed by an immediate attempt to cover it up in the press. The Clinton pardons. Clever, no? Anything to take attention off what just blew all our minds. But that issue cannot be kept in denial forever. It may take decades to unravel the truth behind it.
Whatever happened, the national psyche is in a twist now. Add to that the recession and stock market bomb and we have a real problem. The only answer now is time, progress, unification and Greenspan acting aggressively right away. If he doesn't I think we're in for very rough sledding. Because I have little faith in the warring politicians, especially the ones currently in power. And apparently the market agrees. Unfortunately. A lot of people were saying if Bush won the market would go up. Not.
Believe me I wish there was 100% support for the tax plan and 100% support for Bush. But that's about to drop just as fast as the market just did. You watch. Let's all pray Greenspan does the right thing now. Except shorts can pray for inaction and more screw ups, I guess. Which is my point about shorts. It's legal and sometimes the right thing to do. But now what's good for them is really bad for the country and the world. Negativity breeds disaster if it goes on long enough. And negativity can get just as addicting as exhuberance.
As for Bush getting in because of the "Constitution". That's debatable and will be debated for many years. Watch and see if Jeb Bush goes down next year in flames. There will be a steep price to pay. People know now that even judges are partisan. Their leaders lie. The political machines cheat. And that voting methods and our entire electoral system are imperfect and even unfair. This isn't about Gore it's about the system. We as a nation need honest reform in washington to believe in our system again. That starts with campaign finance reform. So you Republicans, send your faxes in support of it. In a just world McCain would be president now anyway and you know it.
It's no coincidence everyone stopped buying in November.
The nation was paralyzed. Remember what the CSCO CEO said recently. "In December our orders just stopped". Why December? Ask yourselves. Maybe Greenspan raised one too many times last year. Or maybe a sudden change in mass psychology governed behavior and therefore the markets and the economy. Negative mass psychology can infect our markets very quickly. As can the positive. Now we somehow need to chahnge that and turn it around. Somehow.
So ra ra ciss boom ba, let's get this economy and this nation going again. Greenspan needs to lead the way now. Then if McCain-Feingold get past the raptors, attack dogs, special interest fundraisers, disinformation specialists and backroom lobbyist boys to actually pass their bill then maybe we can start seeing a nice gradual improvement.
Some people will tell you government is irrelevant. It isn't. We all own a piece of it. It is in fact us. Its debts are out debts. Its surplus is our surplus. Everything else like who gets what when is debatable. But to attack government in general is to attack our own civilization. And threefore our markets and ourselves.
That is, unless we were to live in a world of total de-regulation, in which case corporations would control everything and just buy the government. In some ways, we've begun to get a little too close to that reality. De-regulating coal plant emissions was just Bush's first step. He knows where his bread is buttered. Wish I had invested in the polluters. I'm sure their stocks have done well recently.
By the way, for those who think the conservatives are for less government in our lives, 6.4 billion is now going into the largest satellite surveillance system every built, bringing many jobs to Boeing mainly. That's all off-the-books type financing. No checks or balances. Answerable to almost no one. For our intelligence "community" to fight our "enemies".
This amount of money into improved satellite technology will both let the individuals in control of certain agencies to peak into every little thing on earth but also bring amazing advances to the sector, including the ability to beam down the web and make the Globalstar and Iridium dreams a reality. Those companies were just ahead of themselves. The idea however will become a reality someday. Satellites will feed us info anywhere on earth and also be capable of watching and listening to us anywhere on earth. Quite an interesting trade-off.
Makes me wonder if Howard Hughes is still alive somewhere. This would be his dream. A brave new world.
This is going to be a pivotal next week or two. The Fed, then McCain-Feingold. Bush also owes McCain for giving him New Hampshire (the margin of victory) and a few other states so he's going to have his chance to ram this down their greedy throats. God bless him. |
