Thursday, March 17, 2011

The Great Recession (or the second Great Depression), and how it's effecting everything

Well just by two articles that I've read for the local level here in Fresno, it seems that everything is going right to heck in a hand basket and it's just not getting better for anyone. However with how things are currently going right now, it doesn't help that the businesses aren't doing anything to help anyone out at all, after all with the prices of everything going up our pays are not going up at all, everything for the pay is just staying where it happens to be while the prices for everything are just going up and up with no end in site. Plus the one thing that doesn't help us, is that if one man runs for president and actually gets it, our county will become the biggest joke of all time. That man is Donald Trump, the one man whose ego doesn't need to be made any bigger with getting the most powerful seat on the planet. However more on that later.
 
The one thing that doesn't help the teachers on a local level right now (and yes I've covered this before, but the slips have actually gone out now: http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/03/16/2313012/pink-slips-out-to-valley-teachers.html), is that the pink slips have actually gone out, though that's not just on a local level, that's also on a state level as well. They say that they hope that they don't actually have to use the slips, but more then likely (and I'm just going off of what I've seen happen before in the news when it comes to something like this) they will be losing teachers more then ever, and the thing is, no amount of incentives will be getting teachers back at all. Now the thing that Brown is trying to do is actually get the teachers kept there by getting the tax extensions actually passed through, but the problem with that I had clearly stated in the last post that I had made before when it comes to Brown the current problems that we happen to have with him. Honestly, no one is learning from this, other wise we wouldn't keep going through this every few years or so when it comes to our governors, though the one thing that doesn't happen to help is that when the next governor comes in and actually tries to get things fixed, the people up in the capital actually try to stone wall him and block things from actually happening, that doesn't help things at all, and then they blame the governor for the current problems that we happen to have when in fact he actually just inherited everything. Honestly that's another reason why I'm would love to go for the position, but I honestly would be needing more incentive then just my wanting to (after all, I'm currently homeless and I've literally got no money to my name to actually run at all, it would all have to be done by donations only).
 
Now here's another joke (at least I think it is) that Fresno is currently dealing with, and that's the retirement pensions that they're trying to deal with right now. (http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/03/16/2313079/fresno-co-pension-plan-called.html) I mean it's bad enough that the rest of the county is currently feeling hurt when it comes to the rising costs of everything, but the one thing that they shouldn't be worrying about and even discussing with everything falling apart around them is their own pensions at all. I mean seriously they're talking about this, when they're also talking about privatizing everything (almost everything) in Fresno county, which if they happen to do that (and this was one of the first things that I covered in my blog) the cost is going to be higher on Fresno county residents that will have to be paying for it in the first place. So on top of that, they're worrying about their retirement when they should be dealing with other things that are going to be having a ripple effect right down to the personal level here in Fresno. Honestly I'm really starting to wonder if it's right that we have elected people in office that are worrying about their own retirements (which if you happen to look at them are through the roof anyway), when you have people here in Fresno that have nothing, and are homeless (like myself). Look I know that I just keep going off left and right on these people, but it doesn't help that they bring it upon themselves when it comes to all of this. However they give us all this talk about doing these things for the people, and not once do they ever actually do anything for the people after they end up in office, talk about a smoke and mirrors deal.
 
OK now when it comes to Donald Trump, if he actually ran for president, it would be the biggest mistake of all time, not only would this country be considered the biggest joke around (though a few of my friends have already told me that this country is already considered a joke to begin with), we would end up as the biggest joke on the planet. Honestly it would not be good for our country to be run by this man ever, and to top it off this is the only article that I could find that was from a non entertainment stand point: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-president-trump-weighs-sheen-palin-obama/story?id=13154163 everything else was from different entertainment magazines or sites, seriously this would not be a good idea. He even stated that even if he didn't get the Republican nomination, he would run as an independent. Honestly this is the same guy that started off reality television with Survivor and then eventually "The Apprentice". Honestly this man should not be allowed to even run at all, I don't give a damn how much money he happens to have, yes he can run on a local level that's not a problem, but to run for the most powerful seat on the planet, sorry but that just shouldn't happen at all. I mean the man's already got an ego the size of Alaska (no offence to those living up there), but this would just be worse, plus they've already done a prediction parody of it on the Simpsons saying that the county was completely bankrupt after president Trump got finished with it, and that Lisa had inherited everything and just really couldn't get everything to go right. Well if Trump does become president, then that show will have predicted how things are going to turn out. Honestly when I watch that article on GMA this morning, I just couldn't believe what I had been seeing (yeah I watch GMA at a donut shop here in Fresno after I leave the mission, it's the only bit of television that I ever get these days).
 
Anyway, sorry about the last rant there, but I just had to put that out there when it came to Trump, beyond that I'm not going to bother any more since he mostly just makes small blips on the radar and that's it, honestly he's really not worth the time, but I just had to comment on the news article that I had seen this morning. Right now I'm just more concerned with the idiots that we happen to have currently running this state, it's not good and we're going to be getting hurt more then ever before. I honestly do wish that I could run and deal with it personally, but like I said, I'm currently homeless with no job and no income, and I would have to run entirely off of donations, and I honestly don't think that people would take my party seriously even though it is a serious party. After all I'm not a republican or a democrat, I'm for Tomorrow and that's all I'll ever be. I'm concerned about Tomorrow and the fact that what we're doing now is hurting the Tomorrow now.

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