Ok...everybody panic

Watching the news. That's my current status. It's been my current status for about six minutes.

Let me share the IDIOTIC statements I have heard in those lone six minutes.

The bailout plan is important to pass to get credit flowing again.

I'm sorry, but isn't the flowing of credit part of our current problem? People have been encouraged to put themselves and their families in hock up to their eyeballs and now they can't pay it back! But come on, if we offer them more money it'll fix everything. Nevermind that no one from middle class America down can afford, to quote my childhood, a pot to piss in if they didn't already have one. Let's go ahead and put everybody in MORE debt.

Carmax is laying off umpteen *my word* thousand employees nationwide, but the GOOD news is no one in the Jackson area will be affected.

Goody goody gumdrops! The Jackson area is safe. Our carmax employees won't lose their jobs. The employees across the rest of the country, eh not so much. But who cares? It's not close to us so we're good. How callous can we be? Idiots.

And people can still buy big ticket items, like new TV's, because financing is STILL available because Mississippi banks are STILL stable.

This rich prick had the gall to stand on television and say, "If I didn't know there was a national crisis, I wouldn't know it from the number of people coming into the store." Seriously. Again, let's keep handing out money, guarantee no interest for a few months (or years) and when these people can't pay back the money they've borrowed the banks can all go under then. Of course, it'll be the banks going under not him since they banks will have already paid him. So he's good.

I swear one person didn't close their mouth before another was letting something stupid fall out. What kind of idiots are reporting the news tonight? Better yet, what kind of idiots are coming up with this idea that giving people money they have to pay back but don't have the money to pay back will fix the economy? Oh wait, it keeps us dependent. Silly, silly me.

I'm deeply disturbed. This is the current state of affairs. Everybody panic. The people we've allowed to make the decisions have screwed us.