"I spent seven years on the Commerce Committee," McSame assures the nation.

"The fundamentals are sound." Get it? "The fundamentals are sound!"

Unable to get a loan? Sound fundamentals.

IRA and 401K lost years of saving? Sound fundamentals.

Missed a mortgage payment or two? Don't worry. Fundamentals are rock solid.

Hey! Lighten up! Go shopping. Fundamentals, you know. Sound. Solid.

It is always about the money.

It is always about the money.

WASHINGTON --Americans' retirement plans have lost as much as $2 trillion in the past 15 months, Congress' top budget analyst estimated Tuesday. The upheaval that has engulfed the financial industry and sent the stock market plummeting is devastating workers' savings, forcing people to hold off on major purchases and consider delaying their retirement, said Peter Orszag, the head of the Congressional Budget Office.

As Congress investigates the causes and effects of the financial meltdown, the House Education and Labor Committee was hearing from retirement savings and budget analysts on how the housing, credit and other financial troubles have battered pensions and other retirement funds, which are among the most common forms of savings in the United States.

"Unlike Wall Street executives, America's families don't have a golden parachute to fall back on," said Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., the panel chairman. "It's clear that their retirement security may be one of the greatest casualties of this financial crisis."

More than half the people surveyed in an Associated Press-GfK poll taken Sept. 27-30 said they worry they will have to work longer because the value of their retirement savings has declined.

Orszag indicated the fear is well-founded. Public and private pension funds and employees' private retirement savings accounts -- like 401(k)'s -- have lost some 20 percent overall since mid-2007, he estimated. Private retirement plans may have suffered slightly more because those holdings are more heavily skewed toward stocks, Orszag added.

"Some people will delay their retirement. In particular, those on the verge of retirement may decide they can no longer afford to retire and will continue working," Orszag said.

A new AARP study found that because of the economic downturn, one in five workers 45 and older has stopped putting money into a 401(k), IRA or other retirement savings account during the past year, and nearly one in four has increased the number of hours he works.

Where is that guy with his guillotines?

It is always about the money.

We are going to ruin the United States and it will not be difficult.

First, we will change legislation to legalize bribery of our Congress. We will then use these bribes to write legislation that craps on 95% of America.

The legislation or refusal to enforce previous legislation will allow monopolies to form, encourage corporations through tax incentives to give America jobs to overseas slave labor, will allow US employers to ignore labor laws and encourage corporations to move away from guaranteed pensions to 401K stock market gambles, so the peasants will be forced to gamble with their retirement while we manipulate the markets to make sure the economy will fail.

Before causing the economy to fail, we will write legislation or declare executive orders that make it easy to impose martial law.

When the economy starts to fail, we will steal nearly a trillion tax dollars from the treasury to keep ourselves rich, but do absolutley nothing to fix the problems that actually caused the economy to fail, since that is our goal.

While doing this we will enter into an illegal occupation of a soveriegn nation to steal billions in tax dollars in the form of no bid contracts to our crony war profiteering buddies.

After we get our billions upon billions from war profiteering in Iraq, and our nearly trillion tax dollars to keep us rich, the economy will fail anyway, all hell will break loose and martial law can be declared. We like to refer to this as the "neo" deal.

No work programs for the worthless American peasants this time. FDR was just too good to these pieces of shit. This time they will be forced to work for slave wages, if any wages, for foreign employers, that is if they wish to eat and stay warm in the winter. There will be a perpetual police state to keep the peasants down and in the place where they belong. Good thing we will be comfortably pampered by arabian slave labor in Dubai when 200 million Americans are left out to dry. You fucking suckers!

The right wing is made up of two groups.

The "elite" super rich, born into it, stupid people that aren't out "screw" the country exactly, they just want every cent. They will do or say anything to "get power" which is the way to get that "last cent". They abuse their base terribly but don't care. They play "dress up" in cowboy hats and pretend to be "one of the people" but travel around in "private jets", the "only" way to get around.

The other half is the base. People that believe anything they are told by their "elite". They vote against their own best interests. They are very poor and completely swallow that line about "redistribution of wealth".

Is there anything more sad than a toothless person without health insurance who doesn't know where their next meal is coming from railing about Obama wanting a "redistribution of wealth"?

These are the same people that believe we are "winning in Iraq" even though Iraq has decimated their own Christian population and made Islam the national religion. If McCain becomes president, these poor people will be even more screwed.

I thought it ironic that the rednecks will kill a gay if they think they can get away with it, yet, Mary Cheney, on national TV said that she personally has never been discriminated against.

The point there is that people such as Bush and Cheney don't feel that laws were made for them. Laws were made to get criminals, not for good people such as them. It's not just laws. People such as Cheney, McCain and Bush can live any way they like. Discrimination, lawlessness, poverty. These things are only political. They are not affected by these things in any way.

If McCain wins, the rednecks and the trailer dwellers will be partyin' and getin' drunk. They will wake up the next day, some will send their kids off to Iraq. Others will be out looking to make a few bucks looking for coke cans or weeding or ironing. They will be wondering where the next 10 dollars will come from but will be able to say, "At least we saved America and our way of life from the black guy".

are doin a heckuva job.