Haven't yet blogged about the catastrophe on here yet, but I had it pegged in June (and I got witnesses). Anyway, here's an email I just sent to my girlfriend. I love watching the apocalypse... if only we didn't have to die in it...
Just heard that Bush said that the 700B money was already allocated and
couldn't be spared to save the Big 3. Pray that, in an hour and a half,
9:30 EST, that all hell doesn't break loose.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98174992
I
love it! I swear: it's like the Bush administration (and I mean, HIM,
the DUBYA, SPECIFICALLY - because he's the LAST HOPE FOR THE BIG 3) has
spent 8 years trying to outdo himself in his seemingly unending
capacity for propelling us, the world, and the universe, towards
ever-heightening catastrophe. Dubya may have given up drinking years
ago, but, even as his last moments at the helm slip through his
fingers, he seems determined to steer us into spine-destroying crashes.
What happened:
Republicans harpooned the bailout on 3 fronts:
1. Ideological (which is madness)
and (even worse) 2. To interject union-busting paycuts into the bailout
(which works on 2 fronts: 1, they'll never be held accountable for
drawing votes away from passing the thing from dems who can't stomache
cutting UAG salaries to NON-UNION wages, and 2., Helps them lay the
blame on the whole disaster they are leaving at the feet of the
incoming administration while simultaneously defending rust-belt
constintuencie's corporate interests in defeating the unions).
Ultimately, the horrifying thing is that these cocksuckers are going to
get away with this, and the American people are going to suffer. Hold
your breath, sweetheart; your nausea at the economy might just shift
into rational fear mode by 6:30 AM. Fridays are usually sell-off days
anyway, and with this, which will nearly instantly add 3 percent to
unemployment if the big 3 fail with fallout through all manufacturing
sectors in the market to follow within the month (probably to the tune
of 10-15 million people out of work in under 40 days)... hold your
breath, sweetheart. This is the top of the roller-coaster. This is
super-fucking-ultra bad.
Meanwhile...
Oh God... you don't even want to know this... HSI closed down 855
points JUST ON SPECULATION THAT THIS BILL WOULDN"T PASS because China
uses so many of the same part vendors as the Big 3 and them going down
would have catastrophic implications for their supply chain...
1 hour, ten mins until the fireworks start...
Time to get fucked up. I wish I had stocked up on booze!
Love ya kiddo!
(This is going to be pasted to my end of the world blog)
