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Wren...do you think regular everyday folk care WHY the economy does what it does? No. No one gives a shit. They just want it fixed or at the very least they'd like to see some movement in the right direction. You're absolutely right...I'm sure you know more about economic policies and regulations than me. Congratulations. Now go fix it. How did this even become about who knows more about economics, anyway? What it's really about: for the first time in the last 5 or 6 years people are FINALLY realizing that our ineptitude is so broad reaching that it'd be laughable if it wasn't so tragic. We've put homeland security (the war on terror) before actual homeland security (saving our own in THIS country) by shoving so many resources halfway across the world that we can't respond to problems at home. After all, as this week's "The Onion" headline reads, "God Outdoes Terrorists Yet Again". If you wanna keep making apologies for Bush's increasingly obvious fuck ups, that's your prerogative...but please don't try to make it sound like anyone who disagree is lying.

While we're talking about fuck ups, let's discuss Michael Brown, director of FEMA. How did this man get into this position? For christ's sake...his last job was overseeing horse shows (I wish I were making that up). He was then fired from that job because he was, by all accounts, a world-class fuck up. I mean...I know politics is full of backroom deals and favors, but how the hell does a man go from looking after Arabian horses (and doing a poor job of that) to being the head of a major government organization that is responsible for massive response to catastrophes? Sure...he bunked with the former FEMA chief in college, but surely that doesn't qualify you for this job...or any job. Does it?