We do realize, don’t we, that bailing out isn’t necessary unless the ship is sinking?

I can’t do a better job of encapsulating the failures and obfuscations of the bailout bill better than Eve has done here.   But I will say here that this bill has nothing whatsoever to do with mitigating the distress of the average homeowner.  If it did, mortgage companies would have been mandated to revoke prepayment penalties (allowing homeowners to be able to afford to refinance adjustable rate mortgages now, before credit is even more impossible to get) and to revoke subordination clauses (which forbid a homeowner to sell a house on private contract without paying off the bank first).

I’ve said this before on this blog, and I’ll say it again.  We are in frightening times.  We are at a tipping point.  If we don’t get involved, if we don’t take the reins into our own hands, the quasi-fascist government we already have is going to run away with all of us dragging bloody through the dust behind it, like condemned men behind a Roman chariot. 

Pay attention to whom you elect — on a local level.  I’m far from convinced that there is much difference at this point between the Demipublicans and the Republicrats.  You have more influence over Congress.  You have more ability to strengthen viable third party candidates in your state.  Change doesn’t happen when people sit back and watch.  If you don’t want to vote, then don’t.  But do something else instead.  If you don’t vote because you believe the system is corrupt, then speak up.  Tell people how you feel.  If you will not use your voice to support a candidate, then at least use it to scream in frustration.  Your voice will not be heard if you don’t use it.  I don’t care how you use it.  But now is the time to be heard.

Scream as loudly as you can, and see how many people you can wake up.  Our drugged and sleeping country is being raped and cannibalized while we lie comatose and indifferent. 

Make some noise.  Make it now.