Hugo Chavez

Needless to say, I need to take a political break. Because at this point, a vote for nationalization of our finance companies might as well be a vote for Venezuelan "President"/Dictator Hugo Chavez. Next will be the automakers, and then the hospitals and healthcare... and so Marxism and socialism has won. No one is talking about the "bad things" that will happen if nothing is done. Why not let bad businesses fail. Have we become a nation of cotton-headed ninny muggins?

I am flabbergasted. I cannot believe the words coming out of the mouths of people who I thought were level headed decision makers. If the dow jones were to drop 4 THOUSAND points next week, what would that mean to me? I am not smart enough to know, but no one is explaining that. The President is fear-mongering and I don't like it. We have given up on democracy and capitalism, in the short span of two weeks.

Democracy: I have not cast a single vote to authorize my government representatives to buy a single private entity, or spend my daughter's daughter's tax dollars today.

Capitalism: Welcome to America, Prime Minister Putin and President Chavez. Because that is what we have become. This is redistribution of wealth. Business without risk of loss is not business, it is government.