A number of points where I disagree with Ginger
1) Not true that deregulation meant that nothing could be done. Eliot Spitzer (who is a great lawyer when not making personal decisions) among others has pointed huge numbers of laws that top bankers and managers violated which could have been prosecuted. Essentially a decision was made that some people were too important to punish. (BTW since deregulation started under Carter, and grew the most under Clinton, not sure you can refer to it as primarily Republican - a bipartisan screwup)
2) QE is not literally printing money but it is a method of money creation. Printing presses are not the primary means of money creation and have not been for 3 quarter of a century or more. The point is that the same money used to purchase Long Bonds could have been used to purchase other assets. For that matter, since QE is itself taking advantage of a loophole, other loopholes could have been taken advantage of (like the PLatinum coin) to have created money that could be used to benefit ordinary people. If the Feds had sent a 1,000 check to every American,then fine let the Republicans file a law suit to take the money back. Even if they won the lawsuit they would have lost a hell of lot of cred
3) You mention the REpublicans running on the debt. Obama was already talking about a grand bargain to cut the debt before he took office. He "pivoted" to publicly making debt a priority two or three years into his term - which was freaking insane. And, as an example of "taking laps" when the Republicans passed the debt limit as part of a frugal austerity budge while we were not fully out of a recession the freaking Democrats crowed at the victory, when they should have shouted about the Republicans extorting long term sabotage of the economy in return for not immediately crashing it. When your opponents are hurting people, make sure they get the blame - don't paint what they extort from you as a victory.
Timelies all!
Elections, ugh. Am not looking forward to the inevitable government shutdown.(Furlough2:Now with even more obstruction!)
There have been several threads on that parenting group on FB that make me feel like the internet is eating itself. One that comes particularly to mind was about fanfiction, and somebody was like, "oh, the best fic I ever read was XYZ" and somebody else was like, "uh, I wrote that." Meanwhile half the people in the thread were all, "what is this, fanficton?"
Three young men near me are complaining about the election and how people are wrongly blaming Obama for things. They're intelligently discussing things with a progressive leaning and occasionally going "that makes sense" and other encouraging things.
Young white men in Utah are not lost.
I found this parenting blog, now mostly a FB group, because of Flea, and hence because of Buffy. A thread on the FB group just went off on a Buffy tangent and one member jokingly suggested making a Buffy spinoff group. My internet world is eating its own tail.
Ah ha ha! That's amazing.
I’m having a crappy, crappy night. I get home, and my router is dead. I go to the Apple store to get a replacement, and my debit card is rejected! I just used it yesterday! I go to an ATM to try to get cash, and it still gets rejected. My bank balance is fine; I guess it’s because the magstripe on my card died. SO FUCKING ANNOYING. Everything breaks at the same time!
I'm sorry, Tom. Not fun.
I'm watching last night's Daily Show coverage, and it's not making me feel *better*, per se, but it is making me laugh. "It's a Red Wedding out there."
Oh! I should go watch that.
I am bad moody. I just went off on my family because I didn't want to watch news and instead of just watching something else had to listen to "reasoning" on why I shouldn't get so upset. Blah blah blah. Just let me have a couple days people! I have a ton of funny stuff I can watch and books to read. I'll be ready for current events again someday, maybe.
My skin is ANGRY. I don't know why. It's posthormones, I'm hydrated enough, not eating anything that would piss it off. Some windburn Sunday, but the pissy areas are not from that.
So over it.
And it is raining.
Ugh, Tom! Ugh, Laura! Ugh, Sara!
I vote soothing things of your choice all around.
