With today's events on Wall Street being characterized by typically conservative, button-down WallStreetJournal types as 'a once-in-a-century crisis' and 'one of the most dramatic days in Wall Street history,' the W administration has finally, utterly succeeded in not only screwing the poor and middle-class;
He's screwed the top 1% too.
Pollsters are oft to ask whether the country is on the right track or not. Can anybody think of one thing that's going right in this country? Seemingly every aspect of national politics and of the economy is bottoming out in ways that eight years ago was unimaginable. Dysfunctional hospitals and schools. An environmental policy that's non-existent. Gas prices. Two wars that only seem to get longer and more expensive. Ethics and corruption scandals in Congress and board rooms. Disaster relief. Privacy and electronic surveillance. Movies. And now, the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
Even if Barack Obama becomes the 44th President of the United States, the state of the nation he's receiving from his predecessor is so crappy that it's fairly difficult that he can truly fix every major crisis unfurling right now. Don't get me wrong. Electing President Obama would be the best step we could take. The fact remains though, the only time I can think of that was worse for a new President taking office was when Abe Lincoln got a country splitting its seams in 1861. I guess that is the one thing in which the country isn't facing a crisis of unprecedented proportions: no-one's trying to secede.
Yet.
Did I hear Alaska anyone?