Reply #3: You know, honesty is refreshing...

[LooseWilly]

I mean, some of us are lunatic enough to feel like accountability for what appear to be war crimes is a big deal... but to just out and out dismiss idealism in favor of worrying about one's own well being... I can admire the honesty in that.

In the interest of disclosure, yeah I'm part of moveon.org. And I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Hardly a penthouse though... unemployed for a good portion of the last year... and driving a taxi in Oakland saw income drop in about 83 of the 96 months that W was in office. And each drop was a further drop from the reduced level it had reached from the month before (which would be why I stopped bothering to try last year, when income dropped below the minimum wage).

It's good to see that there are those who are willing to just say it. That they don't give a shit about what the country made others suffer through, or how many laws were broken to do it... none of that matters when the economy is in trouble... and my healthcare is unaffordable.

I guess I'm an idiot. My personal economy has been on a downhill slide for 8 years, and I was doing one of the most dangerous jobs in the country in one of the most dangerous cities in the country with no health insurance to cover me if I got stabbed or shot... but I still think holding government officials accountable when they break the law is important. Maybe it's because I was given no leniency when I was given a ticket for driving a company car with bald tires on a sunny June afternoon... but the idea that I'm accountable to the law but the government isn't... pisses me off.

Maybe it's just me...