Launch

This blogging thing is here to stay, and I want in. Maybe it is the act of sharing, or maybe I'm just ranting and sending it into cyberspace. Either way, it feels good.

Today felt like a good day to start. 44 years ago blacks got the right to vote, and today we will swear in our 44th president, Barack Obama. I am hoping that the momentum he has will translate into progress, but I am not in agreement with most of the ideas he has presented to date. Hope and fear. Hope and fear.

So where do we go now? Is there going to be a national hangover after the inauguration frenzy? Will the realities of war/economy/health care, which we have tried to forget about recently, come back to haunt us like a bout of food poisoning? Or will we believe that moving forward is enough for now and refuse to sink any further? I'm skeptical at best. I'm waiting for the next bailout wave to quickly grow to over $1 TRILLION! (sorry for the CAPS, but TRILLION! is a huge concept). I expect another wave of layoffs/firings/bankruptcies amid slow consumer demand. I expect at least 2 more large fraud scandals to emerge from Wall Street. And in all of this I feel like a steady tax-payer that is being ask to pick up the tab for someone else's poor judgement. Regardless of my respect for the presidency, there is not faster way to disenfranchise me than to force me answer for the mistakes of others. Screw the stock market. Let it go down. Going down is 1 of only 2 things that a market can do.