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We are not the stereotype of the typical Republican. We drink. We smoke. We cuss. We like The Simpsons and Family Guy, but we love South Park. We are Goldwater Girls Gone Wild and cynical punk rockers and drunk frat boys and bong-toting Burkeans and chain smoking blue collars and right-wing ravers and conservative clubbers and postmodern iconoclasts and Wall Streeters partying like it's 1982. We are metalheads and deadheads and parrotheads. Our heroes include Johnny Ramone, Jonah Goldberg, Greg Gutfeld, Hank Jr., P.J. O'Rourke, Alice Cooper, Gene Simmons, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry, Ted Nugent, Neal Peart of Rush, Kid Rock, Andy Levy, Andrew Breitbart and Frank Kelly Rich. We love Ronald Reagan and PBR with straight shots, and Margaret Thatcher and fine cigars with Scotch. We often lean more libertarian than traditional conservative on certain issues, and would love to kick the ass of anyone wearing a Che t-shirt. We care a helluva lot more about a candidate's tax policy than past drug use. We are well informed on pop culture, the latest music, and Milton Friedman. We read National Review, Ayn Rand, and The Onion. Our religious beliefs range from devout to atheist, but we are more likely to be nursing a hangover on Sunday morning than in a church pew. And we are getting damn tired of people exclaiming, "YOU'RE a Republican?!?!"

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Please stop trying to fix wall street.

A few moments ago, the DOW closed below 9,000 points for the first time since July of 2003. I am one of the millions of Americans who has seen more than 30% of my retirement savings vanish in the last few months. I only have one request of the federal government: Please stop tinkering.

The only thing the government has successfully injected into the markets is hysteria. Not liquidity, confidence, security or stability.

Whatever made Washington think it could outsmart Wall Street? Now we've got a mountain of debt on top of worthless personal brokerage accounts.

It's enough to make one question their patriotism: Should we stay in a market that's getting obliterated just to avoid adding to the problem for everyone else? At what point do we have to jump ship to protect our family's financial security?

Now the treasury is planning on buying up the banks. Presumably because they believe everything that's been done to socialize risk so far has been helpful.

The fear that's gripping everyone is real. For the first time in my life I believe my government could destroy my family's security - which is an extraordinarily scary thing. I don't recognize the people I've voted to put in power, and don't see any options for it to change under new management. Please - at the very least - stop tinkering.
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