Logical Eccentricity

I went to 53rd and Lex earlier today, I think I walked by Viram Pandit, the CEO of Citi. I’m not completely postive it was him, I’ve never seen him before. But he did look similar to the WSJ pictures that I’ve seen. Adn 53rd and Lex is the CitiGroup building, so it does make sense that he would be walking out of there.

So each of the last few years have been defined by some major event (or events). For example, two years ago I turned 21, I spent a week in South Korea, and my brother got married. Last year I graduated from NYU, and started my full time job. Now I’m wondering what this year’s event will be. Not to say this year hasn’t been good or anything, there just hasn’t been major event that will shape the rest of my life. So I wonder what the rest of the year holds in store for me…

I’ve got this song stuck in my mind… Can’t seem to get rid of it. English translation after the break.

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I am a registered Democrat, but lately I’ve been unhappy with the policies and decisions made by the party. I think the seeds were planted during the primaries with the conduct of the Clintons. It seemed as if they were 100% confident that they would get the nomination that they didn’t need to bother with this whole process. And then later on, when it was clear that there was no way she could get the nomination without a major coup by the super delegates, instead of allowing the party to solidify behind one candidate she choose to continue fighting. While I admire her perseverance, I think it was misplaced and caused more harm to the party than good.

But this post is not about the Clintons. I’m disappointed with the handling of the credit crunch and the related housing crisis. The amount of taxpayer money that has been devoted to bailing out people and companies is insane. Instead of teaching people a lesson and hoping the understand that they can’t over extend themselves the government is just bailing them out. It is setting an unhealthy precedent that the government will rescue the common man; the common man who got a mortgage he can’t afford with no money down, and has a huge credit card bill and continues to buy big screen TVs. What obligation do I have to bail out stupid people that can’t manage their own finances?

Whatever party wins, taxes will go up. Why is my hard earned money going to go to help someone else? What benefit will u get out of helping someone stay in their house a little longer? I’m looking to buy a house I want the prices to crash.

Beyond this whole thing is everyone’s wonderful approach to social security. We all know that it won’t be around forever. But instead of dealing with it, everyone continues to turn a blind eye to it. I know, for a fact, that every penny I am paying in social security tax I will never see again. No candidate is willing to deal with this problem. I hate to say this, because I hate all of his other policies, but the only person to actually come up with a workable idea was President Bush. His plan was to privatize social security and allows us to invest our own money how we saw fit. Unfortunately too many people were against it and it did not happen.

I digress. The point of this post is that I am unhappy as a democrat. As a result I have to start searching for a political affiliation more in line with my ideas. Beyond that, I’ve for nothing else for now.

The people over at Wordpress just released their app for the iPhone. So far, it does what it is supposed to do. This is actually the first post from through the new application.