wrote:
As of Sep. 30, federal financial statements showed approximately $56.4
trillion in debts, liabilities, and unfunded promises for Medicare and
Social Security, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation www.pgpf.org
reported. The Federal Reserve estimated total household net worth at
that time at $56.5 trillion.

Since then the stock market has crashed, tens of billions of dollars
of personal wealth have evaporated, and the government has committed
$700 million to bail out financial institutions.

A government which long has been morally and intellectually bankrupt
is now financially bankrupt too.

http://www.tothepointnews.com

It is all very, very sad.

At the time of my early childhood, ~80% of Americans owned their own
homes. Today, less than 20% of Americans own their own homes; the rest
are either purchasing them from a bank or renting (or, even homeless.)

We have generated debt and written IOUs which we can never pay off, in
our lifetimes. These debts will be passed off to our children and their
children; soon we will begin writing IOUs which our great grandchildren
will be left with. At this date, I have not seen one of my public
servants take a reduction in pay and/or benefits and perks. They are
beginning to appear as a ruling class over a peasant class, to me.

The "bailout" money is all going to the greedy/crooked
individuals/institutions/groups which got us into this mess in the first
place. Those in power keep chanting the manta of how we will have to
learn to suffer and get by with less, that somehow, we don't deserve
what we have obtained with the work of our own two hands and minds, that
taxes, fees, licenses must be raised and levied against the poor--they
appear to be suffering little. We are printing money which can only be
given worth by the sweat and labors of future generations.

There was a very popular term and used frequently during the depression,
"Rome burned while Nero fiddled." And, in hindsight, pointed out all
the mistakes made by the Romans which destroyed and let their
way-of-life fall into ruins--a civilization which had once conquered all
the known world--at that time. I see similar here ... at this time.
Indeed, this "bailout" money is being used to maintain high values in
property and goods; it is working against the very people who are being
left with this MAGNIFICENT BILL and i.e., we are cutting our own throats
to maintain the rich and powerful lifestyles of our public servants,
corporate heads, etc.

It is time to "kickbutt", throw out the greedy-crooks, take out the
garbage and clean up the mess ... dare we fiddle about now?

I have lost faith that we will, in time. Indeed, we empower the very
criminals which got us here, to save us--somehow, I question if this
will be successful, or not ... end-of-story.

Regards,
JS