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My first post in a long time. . . life is great, overall. But I have to talk about this global economic system.
Certainly, our government is trying to bail out banks, preventing an economic collapse. Even that will raise inflation. . . and that's our best option. The best option, then, is bad for us. It assumes the bailout will help the banks, and our economy won't crash. Simultaneously, Democrats and Republicans are trying to give tax rebates. . . republicans would give about $600 per family that paid income tax (meaning they would overtly be giving money to the wealthier citizens and not to the poor), while the democrats would give about $600 to all families. The republican plan would not stimulate the economy. . . the rich tend to sit on their money, and only circulation would help the economy.
Even still, that would further impoverish the American people. The revenue would be cut to the government AND US citizens would simultaneously have to pay high inflation and pay off the bailouts the government gives.
A liberalized free market, other than generating extreme income and power differentials, also limits the good a government can do for its people, and creates an opposition against democracy in the political and economic spheres. How do we weather this storm? We have three options. (1) we maintain ownership of the means of production in the hands of the corporations, and so the distribution of all goods is owned by the market and protected by state coercion; we cannot pay for goods in the recession AND our emerging American debt, we starve. (2) we can attempt to maintain some variety of the welfare state, but with (a) capital flight from the US into foreign countries, (b) financial burdens caused by our global debt, tax cuts, war, the falling dollar, the foreign purchase of American capital taking both American profits (preventing their circulation within our economy) and removing themselves as a tax base (a more indirect version of capital flight), and public bailout of corporations, the government would have (1) a hard time providing welfare security for its people, (2) supporting the ideology to do so, and (3) maintaining security against international markets in any form. The final solution, (3) socialized purchase of these corporations by the US would allow the government to produce goods directly for its people, give it direct control over investment, allow its profits to go to the public, rather than public taxes go to corporations, and allow the government to alleviate this crisis. But we will never do that. Our government likes the rich too much, and the poor too little.
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I really appreciate Jenn. She and I are the same person; we have the same goals, desires, values, beliefs... she's my focus, support and drive, and I am her passion and energy. She points me in the right direction and I make the push to get there... and we do it all together. I'm blessed.
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So I've had one of the worst weekends of my life, but I can pull some happiness from it just the same. Saturday I woke up, and within hours I developed a high fever, nausea, a constant pressure headache, and weakness. It lasted all weekend, and today I'm staying home... fortunately with no more symptoms but a little stuffiness. Jenn took such good care of me, though, and she's such a Godsend. Worst sickness I've ever had, and she's the reason I'm better. And that makes me really happy.
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[01 Feb 2007|03:38pm] |
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I'm at work. Worky-work work. I miss Jenn. She's somewhere on campus, I think with our friend Katie, and I miss her. Can't wait to be off.
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Jenn's had to do huge quantities of reading today, and I've been reading with her. We put on Mozart's Don Giovanni in the background, and I read parts of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason , switched to some lighter reading in Hobbes' Leviathan , and finished up with an idea to reread Mill's Utilitarianism . The last thing we did was learn details of the US tax regulations for the 1040, 1040A, and 1040EZ. And I now know about 40 different things to do if Jenn dies. At least I'll get my taxes done. Meanwhile, Jenn's punching herself in the face and lighting her hair on fire. What a night.
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I'm happy. Jenn's silly, but wonderful. Our birds are pretty little girls who go to bed as soon as the light is off and snuggle up together on their perch. We are blessed with wonderful friends, and it's been a full weekend... and we still have another day. My only homework, ever, is philosophy. I'm going to teach myself German, and the only phrase that Jenn was concerned to learn is "Ich liebe dich," "I love you," which she walks around home saying to me with a pretty little smile. We watched Nicholas Nickleby, and I've taken a liking to victorian literature, I like their plots and messages. And it's dinner time. All is right with the world. I love you all.
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A few points of interest-
The Chinese food Jenn made last night was awesome
the next fantastic four movie looks awesome
And Spiderman 3
and the Transformers movie
and Frank Miller, who did the graphic novels 300 and Sin City, is almost done with.... well... I'll just quote it-
"The writer-artist informed us that he has not quite finished work on his much-anticipated Batman Vs. Osama bin Laden graphic novel, which was first announced almost a year ago"
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Batman vs Osama bin Laden? For a graphic novel? You gotta be kidding me.
*sighs* I find it silly.
In other news, TA-ing is going great, and I love my classes. I have to work until 7 today... I'll be killer lonely-
but get to come home to the wifey, so it'll work out.
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[31 Oct 2006|10:23pm] |
| You Are 0% Capitalist, 100% Socialist | 
You see a lot of injustice in the world, and you'd like to see it fixed.
As far as you're concerned, all the wrong people have the power.
You're strongly in favor of the redistribution of wealth - and more protection for the average person. |
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[26 Oct 2006|07:14pm] |
I've seen the McGavick commercial, "I don't want to privatize social security..." many times. And it looks kind of shady. . . if you notice, it shows several clips, but from only 4-5 different places, all within a few weeks of each other, and he repeats them from different camera angles to make them look as though he has said it more times than he has.
So I looked it up.
http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/davidpostman/archives/2006/06/mcgavick_on_social_security.html
Point 3 of his freaking plan involves "a phased-in system of individually controlled, privately managed retirement accounts".
His excuse: "He said financial institutions would be involved, but would not control, the investments. 'I'm not turning it over to banks to run. I'm turning it over to the individuals for them to run.'"
ITS STILL LIKE STOCK OPTIONS! ITS PRIVATIZATION!!!
*ahem*
I hate politics.
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You know what? I'm kind of stressed, with math and my projects and all. I need to learn to be more productive with my time, and I'm getting that slowly but surely. I doubt myself a lot.
But I have the greatest wife God could have ever given me. I have the most wonderful friends I could have, and I love every one of them like family. And somehow I realize that, despite how busy I think I am, I only spend about 1/5 of my free time productively, and still get grades that are better than I ought to get. Even the uncertainties in our future (Jenn's and mine), the time tables we haven't figured out, the doors we've yet to open. . . even those feel alright.
And I'm quite sure that God will take care of each and every one of you just the same.
Good night, all.
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[19 Oct 2006|01:10pm] |
Hookay, so...
Yesterday was kinda blah. Like Jenn's post, started fighting, and then we made up, but I had to be @ work from 2-6. Waaaayyyy better than McDonalds, but I was lonely. We got back, and had dinner with Emily, which was really nice, then we got back and couldn't get into our apartment until 9ish... and then we went straight to bed. It was strange, I feel like I havent had a day. Blah.
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[12 Oct 2006|06:45pm] |
lol this might just be the scariest commercial I've ever seen... I know you all have.
Love you all,
Jeff
( Audrey )
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[22 Sep 2006|07:03am] |
Grey's Anatomy kicked ascot.
In further news, my classes are good with the exception of math, I have to take a work study class today, and yesterday Jenn got me a present at Eastern--a cd of the last performed Rage Against The Machine concert.
How sweet is that? I like the band even better now that I've heard them live.
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