John McCain Thinks I’m a Whiiiiiner
According to Senator John McCain and Phil Gramm, foreclosures, high gas prices, the jobless rate, high food prices and people picking through their sofa pillows for change (the kind McCain believes in), is symptomatic of our imaginary need to be negative.
Seriously, he is trying to tell us all that we’re just imagining a bad economy, that those bills piling up next to the checkbook in my dining room that have doubled in some cases are just figments of my own worried imagination.
John McCain, what crack are you smoking exactly? While I’m trying to figure out how to pay the same bills I had last year which are now twice as much in some cases, you’re calling me a….WHAT?
Yes, Phil Gramm, McCain’s surrogate, is saying we’re all a bunch of whiners inventing a ‘mental recession’. That 2,000 point dip in the stock market? Nah, not to worry about it, because we’re all just whining, imagining, and living in a different reality than Gramm/Bush/McCain. Or vice versa.
First, a few facts about Phil Gramm. As one of the architects of the undoing of the Glass-Steagall Act, which permitted brokers and bankers to blend mortgage and securities into these incredible subprime funds, Gramm owns a large part of the problem. Not only that, but after razing the walls that kept mortgages separate from securities, he went to work as a lobbyist for UBS, one of the primary marketers of those very same subprime mortgages and one of the brokerage houses clamoring for US bailout assistance.
The folks who got caught in the spiked rates were funding investors’ gains — gains in the funds Gramm was lobbying for and profiting from.
Isn’t it conveeeeenient for Phil Gramm to tell the VICTIMS of his scam that they’re WHINERS? And McCain is no better, endorsing the statements Gramm makes about our current economy being a ‘mental recession’.
There is no question that the state of the economy is far beyond imaginary distress. When real people are losing their homes, unable to keep their utilities on, can’t afford the gas to commute to work, are skipping meals or buying carb-laden fast food because it’s cheaper than nutritious food, we have a problem that far transcends our imaginations or ‘mental outlook’.
This is a classic Bush strategy. When George Bush doesn’t want to deal with real facts, he comes out and just tells us all over and over again that we’re not having a problem, we’re not in a recession, we’re winning the war (whatever that means), we’re seeing success in Iraq, and hey, here’s a stimulus check to stimulate the imaginary sluggish economy.
Where is the mainstream media in this? After the media firestorm about ‘Bittergate’, where is the outcry over “whiners”? I assure you, I am no more a whiner than McCain is a woman, either in imagination or reality.
Women and working class white folk who seem to have an Obama aversion, take note. Your candidate is either calling you delusional or stupid. Take your pick.
Sphere: Related ContentLetters from the Middle Class – 1
How much more of a hit can people take? The future looks extremely bleak to me. Bernie, I am so frightened for next year, as I struggle daily this year. I drive past the gas stations and see the price go up! Those prices are going up even 10 cents a gallon in one day!
What about heating fuel next year? I spent this winter with my heat turned down to 53 degrees, varying it only for a few hours after I returned home from work. I have my master’s degree and am a teacher. I am struggling so hard in my new home. It’s a double wide and I’ve waited 50 years to get my own home. Now, I am worried I won’t be able to keep it as everything else is going up, except my salary, which next year will only go up slightly more than 1 percent. The middle class is no longer the middle class…I’ve slipped into the lower class after a winter of double heating costs and now these new economic hits.
How much more of a hit can people take? The future looks extremely bleak to me. I worry constantly about how I am going to pay my bills.
Sphere: Related Content
