In a morbidly twisted way, it's almost funny. Election season is finished, "they guy I voted for" has won and will take office in January, and I still find myself wondering about our Senator in Arizona. Especially after seeing him the other day on Letterman, laughing away and thinking he's the funniest person alive.

Hardly making the news outside Arizona, our former presidential candidate Senator John McCain was one of the 35 who voted against the $14 billion auto bailout measure that may have helped the Big 3 survive through the early part of 2009. This comes as an interesting tidbit given that McCain was so vocally in favor of the $700 billion financial bailout and had (do you remember?) suspended his campaign and even didn't want to debate in order to get it through.

What a wackjob.

He didn't know it then and it cost him an election; he still doesn't realize it now - IT'S ABOUT THE ECONOMY, STUPID.

I am not in favor of a bailout. Free markets and capitalism should reign whenever possible. But we're talking millions of people out of work here on top of the many, many, many folk already without work. Our system ALREADY can't handle the unemployment and effects, and we're willing as a society to allow more to fall into this hole. Rachel Maddow said it well on MSNBC recently: Herbert Hoover, the numskull who's ianction helped spawn the Great Depression, would be smiling in his grave. It's as if they want us to fall into a Depression when something could have at least been done to TRY and stop that from happening, even if there's no guarantee....That's nuts.

Now, I recall during the election when debates would come up about "the important things" and what we all really should be thinking about as we chose our next president. Some went for hope and bold plans to tackle realistic problems people are facing. Others simply waved a flag, cited commendable military experience, and shouted about national security and those "big bad threats" overseas somewhere.

Don't get me wrong: I'm not saying for a moment that national security isn't important, or that we don't face dangers from the world. But seriously, people, we have to support our own society before trying to cure the world. We have problems here that will make those scary national security thoughts even more of an issue in the future, and if we can't head these off, we'll never get there.

Now, as our foundational auto industry and middle class society crumbles, thanks probably in large part to the wonders of the financial system and those great people who sold anyone homes no matter the cost, we find ourselves here: Dec. 12, 2008. We all have played a part in the mess, but any notion of supporting an industry and class of society that supported this country historically in our most difficult times, is just taboo. "Don't take my beer money and give it to others..."

You know what, you wouldn't even have money if it weren't for those who came before you. Know your roots, and pay tribute to them. Even the white collars (I am myself one of them). My message to you unwilling to accept helping others, said in the mostly loving and God-centered way as I embrace a new journey in life:

Screw you. Damnation isn't fit for your sorry excuse for a mind. God gives us these tools to save ourselves, to be able to actually help people in trouble so that they can turn around and help others, and we look the other way - citing our own economic expertise in how to solve the problem and pointing the other way at the big yellow dot in the sky. I have faith we will get through this, but wow - what a time to test the faiths by throwing so many stupid people in the mix.