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April
9 , 2001 - And so it begins...
First
of all, a message to the Chinese government: Shut up! Who in the
hell do you think you are? It's difficult for me to understand why
we, America, must apologize to you, China, when it was your
fighter jet that rammed into our spy... er, recon,
plane. I kind of doubt that if a Chinese recon plane was found flying
in our airspace, we would bring you down and take your crew hostage.
You communists will never learn. Always wanting more for yourselves.
Considering that your only method of defending yourselves is mooching
our nuclear secrets off of Clinton, I'd say you're in no position
to expect anything more from America than swift and ignoble
mockery. So take your pathetic plea for attention and sink back
into your communist craphole full of crap and communism. What's
your problem, anyway? Don't you know that fascism is the way to
go? Sheesh...
Next, I have
the economy to complain about. Who is to blame for our current economical
problems? You watch the news, and accusations are flying around
all of the place. So, here's my stance. Is it Bush's fault? Nah,
he's only been in office two and a half months. He hasn't had time
to screw it up, yet. Congress? Nope, they're trying to fix it (it
would help if they hurry up and decide on a tax cut plan. More on
that later). No, for once, it's not the government's fault.
It is the people's fault. You see, when there are signs of a recession,
people sell their stocks faster than Hardee's sold curly fries.
Well, as you know, when people sell their stocks, the DOW and NASDAQ
plummet. So stop selling your friggin' stocks! Look at it this way:
If you sell when your stocks are down, you're going to lose money.
Simple as that. But, if you people would just be patient,
your stocks might go back up. As I see it, you might as well just
leave them in there. It gives you a chance to at least get something
back if you don't break even. I don't think there's going to be
a huge crash like in 1929 anytime soon. So quit blaming Bush! It's
your fault! Stop passing it off on the president. I'm sure he would
love to blame you for his cat being missing, but he's not doing
that, now is he?
I started to
talk about the tax cut earlier, so I'll continue now. The Congressmen
that are against the tax cut don't seem to realize that once it
goes through, it can only help the economy. But instead, you've
got Dick Gephart and Tom Daischle feeding you all this crap about
how the tax cut is going to sink the country further into debt;
how the tax cut is going to cut into Social Security, thereby destroying
the future of the baby boomers and everyone else younger than them.
Now tell me this: Why would President Bush propose a tax cut that's
going to harm the future of America for the next 100 years?
It's ludicrous! I'll be the first to tell you that presidents have
screwed up in the past, but they have the smarts to not do something
that will blow up the future.
Furthermore,
this tax cut does not, does not, DOES NOT favor rich people! For
the love of God, it's based on a percentage! Here's how it works:
A rich person makes $100,000 bucks a year, while a poor person makes
$8,000 bucks a year. Let's say that each of these persons lose 25
percent of their salary to taxes. That means that the rich guy loses
$25,000 bucks to taxes, while the poor guy loses $2,000 to taxes.
Now, the minority leaders will tell you that this tax cut is unfair
because the rich guy will get more money back from the tax cut than
the poor guy. The rich guy can buy new living room furniture with
his refund, while the poor guy can buy a month's worth of groceries
with his refund. Well, I don't know about you, but I don't see how
this scenario is any different than the tax situation right now,
only there is a much larger refund for everyone. People, this is
how the cookie crumbles. The refunds of the poor people will always
be smaller than that of the rich people, because the rich people
pay more taxes than the not rich people. The media cleverly
leaves this interesting little tidbit out of the info they provide
you. Sorry, but that's just how it works. Live with it.
[Note to
Carol: When I refer to "The Media", this does not mean
you, as you so often point out. I'm mostly referring to your run
of the mill political analysts, as well as the majority of the evening
news hosts. I enjoy making fun of them because they are on the opposite
side of the spectrum from me. Yes, if some Republicans were seated
behind the desk every evening, I probably wouldn't be as annoyed
as I am. However, that will never, EVER, happen, because it can't.
Am I a hypocrite? You better believe it. The point is, these guys
aren't even hiding the fact that they are supposed to be unbiased
anymore. Like I told you, Dan Rather raised $20,000 for the Democratic
National Commitee. Sorry, but that doesn't sound unbiased to me.
Yes, I am bitter.]
Next on the
agenda: The ridiculously huge number of internet-based corporations
that are shutting down, being bought out, etc. This, my friends,
is simply survival of the fittest. The bigger, tougher, more powerful
websites will naturally have an advantage over the smaller, weaker,
two man operations (take this site, for example. Lucas, Carol and
I (mostly me, obviously) provide fun, wholesome entertainment
and opinions for some 40 people, which is a pretty good number,
in my opinion. However, we obviously can't compete against sites
like this one,
this one,
or even this one).
The death of these websites is also an example of fallout from the
economic problems. These companies get scared and fire 5,000 employees
(how a website can have 5,000 employees is beyond me), and then
die. That's just how it works.
And now, the
miscellaneous stuff. Former WCW employees are suing Turner Sports
for discrimination against minorities. I say kudos to these former
employees. It's good to see Ted Turner and his redneck racist cronies
getting what they deserve. Thank God WCW is owned by Vince McMahon
now. Stupid Ted Turner and AOL Time Warner.
I'm so sick
of hearing about Tiger Woods. I realize that winning four straight
majors is pretty damn good and that he's probably the greatest golfer
ever, but enough is enough. Please, talk about baseball!
Hey, speaking
of baseball, congratulations to Rick Ankiel for pitching a gem in
his 2001 debut. I was really more surprised to see Randy Johnson
suck so bad than to see Ankiel pitch good, but still, nobody was
expecting a performance like that. This is the last chance for the
Cardinals, since a strike is probably fairly likely after the season
is over, so they better win the World Series while they have a team
to do it [update: May 31, 2003--man, Ankiel didn't work out,
huh? But at least there was no strike].
Welp, that's
it for now. If you disagree with anything, send hatemail to me.
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