Day 15

I'm broke. A lot of various factors go into why I'm broke. I'm irresponsible with money, that's for sure. Now, I don't go out and buy a PS3 just because I have three hundred dollars. At the same time, I'm definitely an impulse shopper. Not in stores, just with little things. Like going out or deciding to eat out. At least idiots who buy a ton of crap they can barely afford have something to show for their poverty. Me? Just leftovers and hangovers.

But since I'm poor I've had a lot of time to sit around and read the news. As I've said before, I'm not the most enlightened on politics and what not. Despite that fact I have been reading a lot about the economy lately, really for months. Before I became an unemployment statistic I was working in retail and the economic trends had a little bit to do with how much people decided to go shopping during the Christmas season. The stuff interested me, slightly.

So after reading dozens of articles, watching news stories about it on accident, and just hearing people talk about it, I've come to this conclusion. Actually first let me back track a bit. This whole "economic meltdown" was started by irresponsible spending, investments, loans, practices, etc by banks and Wall Street. Right? Am I right? Kind of? I'm not really sure. But I think I am. Why did this happen? It seems like they were making some good money and got a little sloppy with it, maybe weren't paying attention to everything they were doing. Not keeping track of where their money was going blah blah. Something like that.

The conclusion I've come to is this: When the banks and Wall Street have some extra money, they're basically me after I get a paycheck. Which means we're all fucked, hard. Instead of keeping on that path that got them all the money, they start jacking it off. I don't know what the Wall Street equivalent is to 3 rounds of Rumplemintz shots are but it's probably not good. So what's next? Things start piling up and they need to borrow some cash (I turn to my credit card). Not good. This isn't going well.

So in our financial institutions thousands of me's are now jacking off government bailout money that came from who? China. China! Our new arch rival. While a bunch of idiots are handling our money a fiscally responsible Chinese accountant who's as amoral as he is asexual is sitting around giggling happily (this is where his only joy in life comes from, he was bred to be an accountant, he may be a robot, I'm not sure, he's probably as much of a robot as Sam Worthington was in Terminator Salvation, like he is but doesn't realize it but is kind of suspicious) because the USA is borrowing 120 Billion from him a year and he can't wait to collect on that, or the collateral.

This is about as far as I can take it. I'm in too deep on this topic and have a sneaking suspicion nothing I wrote makes sense. Tomorrow I'll get back to writing about things that I'm more familiar with, like pooping, movies, and how my jokes about going on welfare become slightly more serious every day.