Sour Grapes for AIG

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/03/AR2010030303764.html

Another [AIG employee] was even more irate, lashing out at the public for scapegoating AIG employees. "To be honest with you, I really hope it blows up. I think the U.S. taxpayer deserves to lose a trillion dollars over this thing for the way they have behaved."

What sort of ignorant, scum-sucking monster would even say something like this?
If there were any real justice in this world, whoever made this ridiculous comment would have their shrivelled balls ripped clean away from their body. NEWS FLASH FOR AIG - you guys actually DID help tank the economy. Bad lending practices were totally in play for you and many other companies. This does not excuse the guilty, however.

This person is clearly upset about not getting their promised bonuses. But what of that? I'm upset because DUE TO THIS ASSHOLE'S COMPANY (and a few others), there is now a massive public debt (to the tune of about 40 grand for EVERY person in this country). Now, I've never owned a credit card. I've never applied for a loan. But in theory, now I won't be able to....credit will invariably tighten up, and due to these horrible lending practices (esp. sub-prime mortgages), I imagine it will take a long time for our economy to recover.

So fuck this AIG employee...he speaks from unenlightened self-interest and ignorance. His puling foolishness has no place in a modern society, and if there is any fairness to be found in this world, this fool will be abducted from his job by men in black jumpsuits and flogged like the whining bitch he surely is.

Trolls and Venting

I hate trolls. Dammit.

I realized that it's impossible to e-mail most politicians "really" because of trolls. In an ideal world, we would be able to get in touch with the people who represent us; directly in touch, as in, actual conversation. But then there would be trolls, and of course that's why we can't have nice things.

A note on my parlance: Trolls in this particular entry refers to those who intentionally try to compromise others (for the lulz, right?). They seriously get off on schadenfreude and attempt to cause suffering in order to laugh at their victims. *insert Ebaums/4Chan reference here*

So I understand the need for these people to keep separate personal and "work" e-mail addresses, but I don't like it. Ultimately, there's nothing to be done about it, though. So until I become a famous political columnist (or equivalent), I'll just have to send the questions out through the normal forums. I'd prefer off-the-record, "real" answers, but anything will work, I guess.

Work sucks; so does being sick. China's dumping US Securities, and my homework for tomorrow is to crosscheck the GDP gap against the US Debt Ceiling for the last 30 years or so, and see how it correlates to the Dollar Inflation vs. CPI graphs. Lots of data, and lots of potential bullshit (I've noticed that certain areas in the data don't match right, but it could be my errors; we'll see).

For now, get some sleep kids. Tomorrow we crunch numbers!!