Waking up to insanity
I heard the Cabrini bells this morning and failed to get out of bed because snuggling and trying to remain calm amidst crazy times just seemed like a whole lot better idea. Of course, this meant that Loca was shortchanged. And when I got up to my desk, it all started over again – the panting and heart racing and just overall “make it stop” feeling.
My hairdresser told me she is voting for McCain because she fears Obama is a socialist. And I said, “eh?” Did the Democrats make this mess? Not that I recall. A friend sent me a great website that explains the meltdown in layman’s terms. Here is a good piece from Lessons, the last section:
3. We move inexorably toward the socialization of credit risk and a much larger role for the state in the direction of the national economy. Courtesy of Bush and Greenspan, Marx has made a comeback. In The Communist Manifesto, the fifth proposal in Marx’s ten point plan for placing the means of production in the hands of the proletariat was the “centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.” Marx didn’t get it quite right; we’re getting there via the dictatorship of the kleptocracy. But hey, it’s a start.