100,000 Homes Foreclosed on in October

This is a period of malaise in the nation and in my personal life. Today’s news is that 100,000 homes were foreclosed on in the month of October. I guess the dire foreclosure predictions of two years ago are coming to pass. Now the banks are getting dirty. They are going into people’s homes and changing the locks while they are still living in them. Or people will be off on a two day trip and they will smash a window and break in and ransack the place. Often they are illegally foreclosing on homes while other options are still in play. Often the owner believes that a renegotiated loan is under consideration. Some say that banks may be working against their own best interest in foreclosing on so many homes. Obviously this situation will depress real estate prices in a neighborhood so that the innocent suffer with the guilty. Of course the Republicans seem to have the voting public well trained, like dogs. They are taught to react to certain stimuli. For instance proposition 24 is a “jobs tax” rather than a redress of a bill that gave away billions to the very richest among us. We are all conditioned to believe that any tax cut is good and any tax hike is bad. We are all conditioned to see ourselves as the richest two percent of Americans. Now the hot item is these pensions that State employees enjoy along with early retirement at 55. This may just be the issue that hangs Jerry Brown next month. You can’t call Meg Whitman a whore even if she is one for buying out the police union by exempting them from pension cuts in exchange for campaign donations. We are told proposition 25 is bad because it ends budget gridlock, when these people live for the chaos we have each year in the California legislature. As I said above the goal of the right is to privatize everything including police and fire protection, as well as to privatize social security like they have in Chile, which led to major chaos. Again, our CIA’s job seems to be to overturn democratically elected governments and institute some right wing “paradise” by Milton Friedman and his economic friends. The goal is to turn back the clock to one hundred years ago, or longer. They want to go back prior to anti trust legislation and prior to the income tax. They much prefer the more regressive value added tax. And of course they want to privatize the profits and socialize the losses, so that banks and big investment houses never have to suffer the consequences of their risky actions. This has been a good season for Senate debates on C-Span. There is the California governor's race and the Delaware Senate race and the Nevada senate race between Reid and Angle just last night that I haven't seen yet. Even democrats like to throw out a national security "bone" to the viewers. We all know that Islam is the most evolutionarily backward of the world’s major religions. That case of cutting off the wife’s nose and ears is only one of the more extreme manifestations of a generally sick culture over there. But we shouldn’t play into their hands by being in a state of constant war with them. History will not be kind as it looks back on this year of 2010. At no prior time in my lifetime have the American people proven themselves utterly incapable of logical thinking. It will view this election cycle as the last gasp effort of the ultra right before the movement was completely crushed by the inevitable forward progress of history.