Comments on: It’s a Privilege http://justorb.com/2009/03/05/its-a-privilege/ A Tangential Autobiography Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:52:18 +0000 hourly 1 By: Orb http://justorb.com/2009/03/05/its-a-privilege/comment-page-1/#comment-14691 Orb Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:53:29 +0000 http://justorb.com/2009/03/05/its-a-privilege/#comment-14691 <i>The unwinding of market and government fraud is going to be long, nasty and loud.</i> No kidding. It's going to be ugly, ugly, ugly. Right now, I just hope there is light at the end of the tunnel. And you're right that most people haven't noticed how much things suck yet, because it hasn't touched them personally, but I suspect it will at some point. If I didn't go out looking for information and keeping up with what all these people who are supposed to know more than me are up to and saying, I could live in blissful unawareness as well. For a while, but there's nothing that says if the economy gets worse my husband's job will still be there a few months from now. One of us could get seriously injured or sick, and then what? Another big storm could blow through like a few years ago and rip up our house again, and we certainly can't afford that right now. Shit happens, and you can plan for it, but you're never really prepared for it. Not when there isn't a huge savings account sitting in the bank with your name on it (which isn't even much of a safeguard right now with the banks all messed up and failing). We walk a fine line at our house between everything being alright and everything falling apart. Always have. Welcome to the line between lower middle class and poverty. There are going to be a lot more people dropping down into our lifestyle, and many of them are woefully unprepared to deal with it. And I've only begun to rant. The Yuu memos from the Bush administration are on my research list, and then there's the new administration that has chapped my hide already on a couple of things. Yes, Ranty Orb may be back for a while, 'cause I'm extremely cranky in a political way right now. :lol: The unwinding of market and government fraud is going to be long, nasty and loud.

No kidding. It’s going to be ugly, ugly, ugly. Right now, I just hope there is light at the end of the tunnel. And you’re right that most people haven’t noticed how much things suck yet, because it hasn’t touched them personally, but I suspect it will at some point. If I didn’t go out looking for information and keeping up with what all these people who are supposed to know more than me are up to and saying, I could live in blissful unawareness as well. For a while, but there’s nothing that says if the economy gets worse my husband’s job will still be there a few months from now.

One of us could get seriously injured or sick, and then what? Another big storm could blow through like a few years ago and rip up our house again, and we certainly can’t afford that right now. Shit happens, and you can plan for it, but you’re never really prepared for it. Not when there isn’t a huge savings account sitting in the bank with your name on it (which isn’t even much of a safeguard right now with the banks all messed up and failing). We walk a fine line at our house between everything being alright and everything falling apart. Always have. Welcome to the line between lower middle class and poverty. There are going to be a lot more people dropping down into our lifestyle, and many of them are woefully unprepared to deal with it.

And I’ve only begun to rant. The Yuu memos from the Bush administration are on my research list, and then there’s the new administration that has chapped my hide already on a couple of things. Yes, Ranty Orb may be back for a while, ’cause I’m extremely cranky in a political way right now. :lol:

]]> By: John http://justorb.com/2009/03/05/its-a-privilege/comment-page-1/#comment-14689 John Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:15:32 +0000 http://justorb.com/2009/03/05/its-a-privilege/#comment-14689 The amateur nazis you've been going on about are at least succeeding in their endeavor to get noticed. Given their suddenly marginalized status, any attention, even negative, is better than none, in their view. Most people still haven't been materially hurt and have little sense of how really bad things are and will be. The sock puppets of Wall Street are aiming their exclusionist rant at those people. It may be merely a diversionary, rearguard feint to buy time in order to complete the looting of accounts before the cops show up. The unwinding of market and government fraud is going to be long, nasty and loud. The amateur nazis you’ve been going on about are at least succeeding in their endeavor to get noticed. Given their suddenly marginalized status, any attention, even negative, is better than none, in their view.

Most people still haven’t been materially hurt and have little sense of how really bad things are and will be. The sock puppets of Wall Street are aiming their exclusionist rant at those people. It may be merely a diversionary, rearguard feint to buy time in order to complete the looting of accounts before the cops show up.

The unwinding of market and government fraud is going to be long, nasty and loud.

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