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Name: Jesse
Birthday: 9/16/1982
Gender: Male
Interests: I love to read. I watch movies and I listen to music.
Expertise: Writing and cooking
Occupation: Student
Industry: Media
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Member Since:
6/19/2004
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| No one will like to hear this, I don't like saying this, but it seems no one else knows this. Taxes will go up. Not because a Republican or Democrat will take office. We, our country and we are all to blame for this we could have spoke up, but didn't, just wrote a check for $900 billion, and yes, it is $900 billion so far, the $700 billion was to just open the flood gates, and we have a over One Trillion dollar bill coming for the Iraq war. Let's just add those together and do a conservative rounding up of this bailout assuming we won't need to pump up more money to wall street. The total is 2 trillion dollars, that's $2,000,000,000,000. Now that money is coming from some where, and it's tax payers. Those executives that take massive holidays to Aspen, on tax payer money now just like the tanks that are used in Iraq and Afghanistan. Personally, I think tax breaks during a time off war are unpatriotic and dangerous, I don't mean unchecked military spending.
This country has adopted market socialization. The stock market slipped and the government bailed out the corporations and banks that tricked the people into playing with all their money. The people don't get a bailout. In the eyes of the government , the one that was created to serve the people, not viceversa, those people gambled and lost, never mind the bad loans gave out by the banks, or the lies stock market "experts" told about market safety. A true bailout for the people would have been a flat rate check to every American tax payer of $100,000. Radical right? It would have been cheaper. People would be able to pay their loans and but more goods. It would have been a true stimulus check, instead of $300 or $600. Trickle up, not down this time. But it is socialism, it can be argued. True, but what is the bailout package that exists now, if not socialism for the stock market, what are farm subsidies, what are public schools and public roads.
Debt is what is killing this country. It is very nearly impossible to get anywhere in this country without going into serious debt. Immediately at the age of 18 the easy credit card applications come in the mail, even if you ignore that, car loans seem so tempting, even if you resist that, if you want to go to college, you can take out a student loan to help you get though, if you're one of the lucky one who don't get caught by that or don't go to school, the home mortgage is right over the horizon. These are all the normal loans that will pop up for most of middle Americans of my generation, ( gen y I believe we're called) so far, and a few generations before mine. This isn't counting all the things we can buy on high rate payment plans. That is a lot of debt. There are ways to avoid this debt, I know some who have, but debt has been made so easy and social accepted it is difficult not to have it bite into at one time or another. Ask yourself who created this need for debt? The people or the easy loans given out by banks or the advertisers that brain wash people into believing we need all this crap. I believe it is all three, I blame myself for not reading the loan's fine print sooner and planning ahead and letting adveritisers trick me into wanting new and better crap and not always stopping myself from buying it or into it.
Debt carries a load that bears down on the debtor, breaking the debtor's spirit. The breaking of that spirit cause a negative view across the board. Financial burdens have broken up many families and caused most of the stress felt by the middle class. If failure of paying back loans has caused the crises, then the failure to pay back loans comes from not enough well paying jobs in American. American's want to pay off their loans, we want a way out of this crisis. The difference in pay of executives and workers is the highest it has been in a time out of my mind. The middle class deserves better pay, the lower class deserves better pay. Earlier, I suggested $100,000 to help every tax payer, but I meant it would have been better than paying the corporations to keep screwing us. What we need to do is demand better pay for the work we do. Why should the rich get fat off the labors of the people. I don't mean strip the wealthy of their money and redistribute it, I mean real wages for our work. That is real capitalism, not screwing the worker and taking all you can from him or her, but paying well for the services rendered. We need to think people, not be told what to think, to demand the fair pay, not to accept what we are told is to be fair.
Jesse
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| I love it here it the city there is so much to do. I can't really describe all that I have been up to like walking around and checking out the building, eating at cool little places, or any thing else I've been doing. I have lost a bunch of weight and several inches. My "thin" belt that I barley fit into when I moved here is now almost too big. I've just been eating less and doing sit-ups every day.
I've been reading a ton of books.
Jesse
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| So Nader is running for President again. I wonder if he'll be financed by the Republican Party again. Seriously anyone who wastes their vote on Nader should be fucking smacked. I know we need to break out of the two party cycle, but I believe it needs to be done at the local level first, but I digress, this is about what an idiot Nader is for running. Both Democrat candidates are different form each other and they are both different from McCain. This election is too serious to have votes wasted. I've heard many arguments that Nader didn't cost Gore the 2000 election, but I believe Nader cost Gore more votes than we can count because how can you count something that is not there? I believe Nader cast a situation of apathy on young voters with the campaign " These Candidates are the came, but I'm different and I'm the only vote for change." I doubt Gore would have plunged us into Iraq, I know he wouldn't have relaxed EPA restrictions or allow major corporations to develop the self-regulate plan that exists today. I doubt that Gore would have allowed next-to-nothing be done about lead poisoned toys, pet food that kills pets, and all the other dangerous goods that we have imported from China like our current administration. I think it is easy to look back now and say "no those candidates were not the same" and what we should have learned is how to look at out candidates closer and what to ask them. I hope Nader won't get votes, and I know he has the right to run, but I mean in 2000, a vote for Nader was really a vote taken away from Gore which only made Bush's chances of winning greater. You could say " well, maybe the people that voted for Nader wouldn't have voted for Gore anyway." But we know that is not true. In 2004, when Nader ran many of the donations he received and accepted came from people that donated heavily to the RNC. Why would these people support Nader? Easy they were hoping that Nader would once again take votes away from Democrats.
Just for the record I don't hate Third Party candidates, I hope one day that we do have multiple parties. But lets face it Nader only appeals to the people on the left. If there was someone running on an independent ticket that would take away votes from the right I wouldn't mind Nader as much, however, there is no-one that is doing that right now.
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| The title says quite a bit. I couldn't let it go a year without an update. I'm not sure why I stopped writing, but I think I need to pick it up again.
Big news first: I'm in New York City now. I live in Brooklyn in a fly house with Bella Fleck's brother Louie. I'm currently working at the Strand Bookstore, the largest independent bookstore in New York. I'm trying to figure out how to start a new blog about agricultural news. Uncle Jesse's Farm Report isn't dead yet. I've also applied for several jobs at newspapers. The strand is a cool place to work. Think "Empire Records" only instead of talking about music all day, it's books.
I love it here in New York. There is so much to do and see. I can find art everywhere. I doubt I'll live here longer than a few years, but all wanted was the experience of living in a new place and no place was as new to me as New York. Hell New is in the name.
Marisa and I have been together 4 years. That is great. I had a great last few days. Celebrating the anniversary, Gaints winning the Super Bowel, seeing Obama last Monday, Obama pulling ahead in the primary. I support Obama. I believe we need a change and someone to bring the idea of hope back to politics. I think some candidates have become bogged down and have to many old scandals. I believe Obama is the candidate that will pull this country together.
I'll update more in a few days. Peace out people.
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| I did hour of power. It went well. I don't have much to say. I'm good. Writing is going well. I just got the Narnia collection and I'm going to read that soon.
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