The Zombieslayer

My wife and I religiously go to the local Farmer’s Market.  It’s for several reasons - I believe in Slow Foods (I’ve written about the Slow Food movement in the past), I believe in eating organic when possible, and I also believe that as a capitalist, you should support independent farmers as they’re good for business and good for the environment.  It’s also a great place to check out babes and listen to good local music.

I always bring $40.  That will get the three of us a lot of good food, and the rest goes into the musicians’ tip jars.  So I come home with nothing but credit cards.  Yes, I still have cash but that’s my technique.  I’m on foot, so can’t spend the rest of my cash as it’s at home.

On the way home, I’ve been noticing more and more homeless folk.  Yes, I know that a lot of homeless are alcoholic losers.  But we’re seeing more and more of them and sometimes they’re not losers; just people with really bad luck.  We’re seeing a lot more of the latter now.

So a homeless guy asked if I had spare change and I told him honestly I didn’t have a penny left as I gave it all away to the musicians at the Farmer’s Market.  He asked if I had spare food.  Usually I buy a bunch of Mexican food (from the Farmer’s Market) but I didn’t have any this time.

Bailouts

Meanwhile, YOUR tax money went to billions of dollars for bailouts for the super rich.  If there’s any example of socialism for the rich, it was that bank bailouts.  What the fuck were you thinking if you supported the bailouts? No, the economy wouldn’t have fallen apart.  That’s what they want you to believe and your stupid politicians fell for it.  Meanwhile, they gave themselves $46 billion in bonuses in the FIRST YEAR alone with YOUR tax money and threw huge parties.

Bad for business

I take my credit score seriously.  Sad thing about credit score is you’re encouraged to have long relationships with banks.  My bank that I’ve been a customer at was one of the banks that got the bailout money.  They had the audacity to tell me that they have new fees where they charge a $10 a month service fee if I didn’t have either $1500 in the checking account or direct deposit.  I really wanted to tell them to fuck themselves and close the account, but because of my credit score (history), I decided not to.

I’d much rather do business with a credit union.  We’re slowly moving over to the local ones.  For one, their customer service is superior.  For another, they’re not a bunch of evil assholes like the big banks.

Look, we should have let the big banks fail.  If you know anything about capitalism, you should know that monopolies are bad for business.  They’re bad for business and bad for the consumer.  Plus, they have these fat lobbies and end up having too much political power as we’ve seen with the bailouts.

Had those big banks failed, we’d have a better banking system.  Thousands of little banks would have taken their business and it would have been better for the consumer.

We lost in so many ways with those bailouts.  Vote them all out, folks.  Everyone who supported the bailouts needs to go.

It’s too bad neither of these men are President.  We’d have a much better country.

More Freedom, less government spending on stupid shit.  Yes, it is that simple.

Take 10 minutes to watch this.

Take almost 7 minutes to watch this.  You’ll see how Obama is no different from Bush when it comes to economic policies, and who is really running the show.  It’s quite disturbing.

I hate to say “I told you so” because I didn’t want to be right.

61% of Americans oppose naked body scanners.  48% will choose alternative methods of travel to avoid them.  If you think this doesn’t hurt your wallet, you got your head up your ass.  Americans have had enough of the TSA.  Bad for freedom.  Bad for privacy.  Bad for business.

Poll source -  http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.cfm?ID=1925

Today I’m going to have a guest author.  I may or may not agree with this person.  I think after reading my blog long enough you know where I stand on party lines.  However, I’m getting sick of hearing my own voice so I’m going to start featuring guest writers.  This is Geopax.

Never in the history of our nation has our congress paid less attention to Americans and more to wealthy corporations. The fact that the Republican party rejects legislation that would prohibit government subsidies to corporations who ship our jobs overseas, should make it clear to us who they represent - the multi-national corporations who have bought them, not the American people. Before you pull the voting lever you need to think what party has tried to halt these subsidies and what party stood on the side of the multi-national corporations against the American workers. If you think Obama and the Democrats need to be replaced, you need to look what the Republicans are doing to you. They are destroying the American middle class by shipping our manufacturing and our wealth to Asia. This is not the Grand Old Party of Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, and Reagan. This is the new pseudo-conservation party that is causing America’s decline. This is the party of fools like McCain and bimbos like Palin.