The gas price gouging, hurricane recoveries, The Failures of Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, A.I.G. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, wow what a great year we’ve been having eh?The American people are being picked apart like a carcass rotting in the desert.  I don’t think a lot of us really saw all the signs coming but now that we are in the clutches of a serious economic down turn what the hell do we do as regular people to survive before everything is gone. We’ll it seems that we deal with this issue in typical American fashion these days. We bitch and complain and blame everyone but ourselves, we fight with our spouses about money and bills, we start to walk around like a grumpy old men and mumble under our breaths about how we’re going do this and that to the person or persons who’ve done this to us, we scare our kids as we stomp around the house bitching about how fricking spoiled they have been and now it’s time to learn a lesson in life.  Or in some cases we don’t say anything, we just have our kids bitch to us about why can’t they have this or that and we end up buying them more crap just so we don’t have to deal with the complaints anymore and run our credit card debt’s higher and higher. Now I want you to notice here before you start saying “who is this A-hole think he is writing about us like this” that I am probably a first team all-star when it comes to being irresponsible with my money and bills, and I’ve got a lot of hard work to do when it comes to my personal financial screw ups. But I think we all just got a huge dose reality this week and we have had to see what it looks like to act in an irresponsible self serving way on a grand scale.     You see these companies listed above are really nothing more than a reflection of the way our whole society has been acting when it comes to money and personal responsibility. They went about the business of serving themselves up huge chunks of potential profits by  taking major risks with what they assumed was someone else’s money, and that someone else was US! Not only have we been messing our own life’s up but now we as tax payers are being told we need to “bail out” these greedy self serving bastards with our tax dollars cause we can’t afford to have the negative effects on our economy that would come if we just lets these greed mongers go belly up.       I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of watching my tax dollars go towards things like bail outs or anything to do with corporate businesses that can’t compete. So let’s all remember what we’ve been doing and what we’ve been going through as regular people here in this great country as we come up on our presidential elections. Because I don’t think either one of these candidate’s have given a straight answer about how we stop this downward spiral as a country and economy, and we all seriously need some solid leadership and we all need to do a little growing up. And remember how it’s clear we only have ourselves to blame when it comes to what’s happening  to our economy right now. Well that, the dog, and our favorite sports teams for not winning more often!