Painfully Numb

I think Paul Simon had it pegged when he said, "If we weren't all crazy, we would all go insane." I think as we look around us at the incredible economic meltdown that not only effects our little sphere of influence, but the entire world, that if we don't have a sense of humor we will literally loose our minds. When we look and see that the stock market is down almost 50% from its high...and down to levels of ten years ago we have to ask..."Was the high an artificial bubble, or is this a way over the top reaction." I find it so disheartening that we seem to be rewarding those who made the awful decisions that put us in this position by giving them money from the people who played it straight, kept their financial decisions under control, and made all of their payments....on time. We just seem to be saying...."I know that you don't have a clue, but here, take all of this money and go out and make those same mistakes again." The old joke about rewarding the guilty and punishing the innocent seems to actually being lived out. There is certainly enough blame to go around. There was not nearly enough oversight from the Bush administration...but, I just can't believe that Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd, two of the real culprits, are just keeping their heads in the sand and accepting none of the blame. Unfortunately, I think that I am beginning to believe that Karl Rove had it right when he said that Obama and his team of Clinton re-treads are "just winging it." Unfortunately, they are winging it with our money and our future. It really seems like we truly are..."still crazy after all these years."