Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Politics are the devil <3

It's ridiculous! I can't stand listening to people argue about politics, its never ending. When it comes to voting for president i find myself stuck having to choose between the less of two evils. The few people that are eligible and intelligent enough to run this country are too busy making millions to stop & spend their time running for president. First off, our economic problems can't be solved by the president anyway. He can give his opinion and make a million empty promises but in reality it will never be up to him. Ben Bernanke and the rest of the board on the federal reserve are the ones that run our lives economically. People worry so deeply about who their going to choose because of our economic state and how we're going into a recession and how we could go into a depression. Well if everyone had the amazing economics teacher that i had, they would know that if we look up the definition to the word recession we've technically been in a recession for months now.  The U.S. based National Bureau of Economic Research defines a recession as "a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales. A sustained recession may become a depression." So technically, we've been in a recession for months (:... 
I still don't know who i'm voting for... They both have something that i could find my self saying "i would never want my president to say/do that" ... politics are all F-ed up

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Ignorance =/

I watched the 9/11 video and a bit of the one about the federal reserve. The things that where stated in the 9/11 video really make you wonder how much people really know. I've always thought the government hides WAY too much from us but this video really almost terrifies you to think that we knew so little about something so big. It's crazy how it blames it on us when really, we're not educated on these subjects enough at all. Which brings me to the other video about the Federal Reserve. I had an amazing economics teacher in high school, fortunately. He forced us to learn things for ourselves and understand that the presidents really can't do anything about economics, that its all on the Federal Reserve. It's crazy how little most people who have a full blown education know. Most of our presidents got C's in economics in highschool... c'mon now, really??

i HATE politics talk because people make really uneducated statements, ALL THE TIME.
=/