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Dear Senator Obama,

Realizing that the economy needs be bailed out is not a difficult observation, but how do we control this economic entropy without just delaying it’s inevitable implosion? It seems our economy will eventually collapse, and the most important question is how badly will the collapse be. I will not pretend to know the intricacies of how our economy operates, but I will admit this “bailout” has an appearance that is mostly geared towards benefiting conglomerate fat cats, rewarding unethical business practices, delaying the inevitable, propping up our economy for a more disastrous fall and weakening the USD even further.

I understand that if we allow these “conglomerates” to go down, the rest of us will follow as we are “all in bed together”. What I don’t understand, or at least have not heard, is how my government is working towards a policy that will not only prevent this from happening again in the future, but implementing accountability where due, and infusing oversight where the was none before.

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Snipped from AP.Google.com.

While you are worried about the $700 billion price tag for bailing out our economy, Congress just easily passed $612 billion to be sent to cover defense spending for the FAILED Iraq war (I don’t care that the surged worked, we have still failed the original mission), and the FAILED Afghanistan War (failed because our focus is continually diverted to the Iraq war). So, in reality, we have two bailouts. Our government has to bailout Bush, and his Bushites with their Iraq War débâcle, and our economy because of … um, could it be? Bush, and his Bushites? Ding, ding, ding! Tell them what they have one Johnny. Yes, it is Bush’s fault, maybe not entirely, but he has had a major hand in his deregulation of big business initiative since he took office.

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Photo: Jessica Dimmock

I am always interested in different perspectives on what it means to be human, especially when they come from sources that are vastly different than your average Joe Sixpack. So, when I cam across a video of an autistic that makes an amazingly successful attempt at explaining what it is like to have autism, and how she views her life submerged in a sea of “normal” people, I was absolutely astounded. Here is an angle that I have never heard before, so I thought I would share this experience with all of you.

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Snipped from HuffingtonPost.com.

God damn it Bill and Hillary. I mean really. This isn’t the high school prom, and Hillary wasn’t supposed to be Prom Queen. She lost. Get over it! Let’s move on. Yet, I don’t think they will, and I too believe there is a slight motivation to see McCain win, so that Hillary can have a chance in 2012 (the end of the world! According to some.) Am I the only one that notices how Hillary is still campaigning, and Bill can’t say Obama’s name to save his life?

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What do we do?

After the 700 billion plus dollars bailout of Wall Street and the banking community, what can we the people look forward to? Of course, the Feds aren’t calling their solution to their problem a bailout. They are using a surefire Madison Avenue, advertising ploy and calling the “Bailout” by different brand names in order to offset any public outcry. Let’s do a switch on a recent joke: You can put lipstick on the word, bailout, but it’s still a bailout. Moreover, this bailout may mushroom in the dollar amount because now the Fed is also considering a bailout of foreign banks who have “branches” in the U.S. Oh! Good Gawk!

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