Damn... I really like you. Seem to be one of the few people (not just here, but in general) that realize that there is such a thing as personal responsibility that is completely independent of who is in office.
Just out of curiosity... who all here contacted their congressmen over the bailout - in support or opposition to the bailout (we don't need to know what side you took). Just, who contacted their representative to tell them how to represent them?
I did, twice.... to all three of my representatives.
I contacted all 3 of my congressmen- and BOTH of the campaigns.
You want to point out personal responsibility-
I will give you personal responsibility.
When I rail agaisnt Republican policy and politicians, I am railing against the PEOPLE who blindly supported and blindly enacted that policy DESPITE plenty of warnings that it wasn't working so good.
Bush and Cheny are
personally responsible.
Every single asshole in congress who spouts "free market deregualtion" is personally responsible.
Every single fuck who voted to de-regulate media ownership- Which
had been regualted to prevent the very kind of lopsided propagandisitc drivel that passes for journalism today... keeping the voters in the dark...
Every single ignorant, oblivious, imbecile of a "conservative" who supported the republican party DESPITE the party's utter failure to pursue a cosnervative economic policy- despite their military excesses-- their deficit spending, their refusal to raise the funds to pay for their wars.
THESE are the people who MADE the choices that led us ALL to this disaster.
Don't blame the American people who tried to buy a home when their GOVERNMENT was telling them to buy and promising the loan products were rock solid.
Don't blame the people who were raised in a world of improving wages, and had every reason to expect their wages would rise, AS PROMISED BY REPUBLICAN FREE MARKETEERS, only to find their real wages FALL year after year until they could not support the debt that their LEADERSHIP encouraged them to incur.
NONE OF US is depression proof- ITs NOT a matter of 'working harder' and 'being responsible'
that is an Elitist fuck thing to say.
The poor are often the hardest working people in this country, and NONE of them WANT to get thrown on the street cause their jobs got offshored so some CEO could get a multimillion dollar bonus.
The MAJORITY of home defaults are NOT the poor who bought under Clinton's more intelligent policies... They have had the lowest default rate in the country.
It's the Middle Class that are defaulting- cause they thought they would take advantage of the speculation to make some big money fast with no work at all.
It's the middle classers who tried to buy up into one of the new mini- mansions to live the BIG life like all the other rich fucks...
THOSE are where the defaults are coming from.
And, hey, trust me, it won't be long before folks who bought LONG ago with regular mortgages, and who DEPEND on their paycheck to make that payment, find they no longer have a job, thanks to this irresponsible administration and the party that rubber stamped his every whim...
And when they lose that job- that regular paycheck...they will lose their homes, too...
It pisses me off when conservative shits imagine that THEY are doing good because they are "better" than others...
Not one of you is immune from losing your job. and in a depression, there won't be anyone hiring...
Like the poor... you are just a handful of paychecks away from losing everything.
So don't spout shit about how the poor have it coming... they simply live a LITTLE closer to the edge than you... so they suffer, first.
And this crap about voting FOR the collapse of western economy?
Shame on you.
Study some fucking history... or spend some time in the poorer sections of Calcutta...
You are the kind of person who can just toss off the 500,000 lives lost in Iraq as nothing.... actually root FOR massive widespread suffering....
Until its YOUR loved ones begging for bread.
The kind of self absorbed ignorance you display is what is REALLY at the core of this crisis.
WHo's responsible?
People like YOU are.
ANYone
not voting for an entirely DIFFERENT approach is responsible.
A collapse and revolution may yet come, no matter what we do... BILLIONS of people suffering, wars and death and famine...
That is horror enough without you wishing it so.