THE SUN'S SOUVENIR

I often get lyrics wrong, and London Calling is no exception. I always hear 'the sun's souvenir' and not the sun zooming in. It actually makes more sense to me, the ice age can't come if the sun is zooming in. This song does underscore the current economy for me, however, and I think the wrong people are being 'bailed out'. It's one more disgust on the long list of disgust I keep with people in power. No one has bailed out my market losses. And I was not stupid enough to take a mortgage I could not afford. I wonder what would happen if we let these companies go out of business, as they should. Clearly they are not good at what they do, and in things like cars that have not been practical for quite some time now, why give them any government money to keep building cars that are not good? Who is friends with who that keep getting money. Me, I don't like sending money to other countries, especially because we clearly need it.

This photograph of the crowd and empty podium at a recent Obama rally sums things up for me. I'm left in the gymnasium in the quiet aftermath wondering if anything will really change. Obama is the only sign of hope I see in the future, and I like him. I don't trust any of the other people in Washington, and why can't we fire all of them? At least take away all of their health insurance if they can't get a plan for health going for the rest of us. And outright fire the incompetent and corrupt.

This photograph is of people with hope on their faces.