Just a bit of a fantasy rant

It's over and all is fine. I can type with 3 fingers on my left hand, clumsy but manageable. I really can't drive -- not that I tried -- my head only wants bed. I am trying to wake my self up right now b/c I have a 9 am PTO meeting that I don't want to miss. It is true that the PTO is run by SAHMs and a few w/ very flexible schedules. I am one of them and we do take what we do very seriously. Today, is an exec meeting that decides about the PTO grant money. I have my opinions and favs among the submitted grants. I want to have my say. LOL. No question but that Julia belongs to me.

Now for the rant -- Front page of the NY Times today, above the fold, picture of Alan Greenspan with the caption: "Looking back in Disbelief. Testifying before a House committee almost 3 years after stepping down as Chairman of the Federal Reserve, AG admitteed that he put too much faith in the self-correcting power of free markets and had failed to antricipate the self-destructive power of wanton mortage lending, leaving himself 'in a state od shocked disbelief'" and just below that the headline: How McCain Hopes to Defy the Polls and Win.

What kind of drugs do these people take? Are they all delusional? This is more for AG than McCain (who I expect will fight until the last vote is counted as he should). But still, what kind of fantasy world is he living in? What kind of fantasy world do fiscal conservatives live in??? I dream about winning the lottery, but I don't expect the MBAs of this world to be warm and fuzzy and looking out for my best interest, let alone the best interest of those stupid people (and I use the word lovingly) who bought houses that there was no way in hell that they were going to pay off when their short term, low interest baloon mortgage expired. And now AG is shocked??? What part of greed and short view planning did he not understand. Some of us economically under-educated folks have been waiting for this shoe to drop for a while now. Our investments and pension plans have benefited greatly from the wall street crazies, but our own fiscally conservative views prompted us to make some allocation changes when we saw the writing on our very small wall. AG didn't see it long, long ago? I imagined his wall (as in writings on the . . . ) to be much broader than mine. Maybe wild and crazy free market is not what we need, maybe capitalism needs some boundaries.

And so, what is going to be proposed now? Is Bush going to send us another $600 check to get "us" through Christmas? I can't imagine that he will do anything to mar his relationships with the blue chip crowd or do much more that seek to lower capital gains tax and engage in some Raegan trickle down nonsense. Maybe it is time to pour money into fixing some of that infrastructure that is falling down around us. Maybe it is time to raise some taxes on that top 10% to support the creation of jobs and job training. And to those Joe-the-plumbers who harbor the dream that they are going to be in the economically gifted class very soon, open your eyes! Fight when you get there if you are so inclined, but consider the greater good. Consider our national community that is suffering right now. Consider that goodness, generosity, truth-telling and sacrifice are needed to heal what greed has wounded.

Should I sign this Suzanne the Socialist or Suzanne the Fiscal Realist?

On the home freont -- Julia helped me take off the IV bandage this morning and she was thrilled to check out the little hole. And I realized why snow sounds so incredible for this weekend -- we still have leaves on major big trees. I am still used to the orderliness of having all the leaves down before the snow. Ah, Wisconsin!

And my finger hurts. I better stop ranting, I mean typing.