True, but maybe not so funny

Yeah, I'm trashing politicians, but I am not endorsing any (want cancer of the brain or pancreas?  Both will kill you quickly). 

Hell, they're worse than lawyers.

I had no mention of politics.  The idea of me, or my children (if I ever have any) being saddle with a debt that wasn't of their creation honestly makes me mad.

I work in the financial industry and what I see is incredible.  I have seen both legal and illegal actions that cost people millions of dollars because of someone else's idea of what makes a good deal or business.  I see folks who are in the industry and I ask them as politely as I am allowed to... "what they are doing to secure a better financial tomorrow for their kids".  It's not totally the fault of the government, the speculators, or the people in business now.  It's everything and everyone.  Each played a part in this situation that is unfolding bit-by-bit right now.

Sorry Charles... but I honestly want to know what folks 20 years ago, during the lovely 80's and 90's were doing with the eceonomy and money.  "Reaganomics" and the like and what mess they left for us now.

for the most part they were buying fast cars expensive suits and nose sugar

You know what I love about those damn politicians?











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Twenty years ago in the late 80s I was in my mid 30s and running a business.  Taxes had been cut for those near the top and ideology had replaced judicial demeanor for court appointees.  Political parties back then had a way of convincing people to vote against their best political interests by putting up smoke screens (same sex marriage is today's buzz word which covers up a multitude of sins).

It all comes back to a non-thinking, rather ill-informed electyorate.  Mostly people my age were making a living, while people my current age were running th ings.

People my age now, had no desire to live their life under a microscope in order to serve as elected officials.  Take that back, one of my classmates fro U of D, whose nickname was "Lame Jane" in her classes, successfully ran for high state office.  You see what I mean.

I had a friend who was second in his class at the Naval Academy - fine officer - got out cause his CO on a sub was an idiot and he did not want to spend three years doing nothing.  Ditto for guys who were LT Colonels and on the fast tract in the army - desired that his kids go to the3 same HS for 4 years. 

Horribly enough, my generation managed to pay out of the debt and had things balanced before the current bunch of idiots took over.  Seems that oral sex in high office means more than going to war and losing trillions off the books.  This one may be political, but what did folks not like about the 90s, the peace or the prosperity?

what is nose sugar? is it better than regular sugar? what are its practical uses?