Not to mention that I get my cable internet service here in Massachusetts through Cox Cable, which was Ray Nagin’s company and a sole-source supplier here in my town for more than 2 years. So Ray Nagin’s pals know where I live too, and all my VoIP traffic comes in and out on Cox cable lines.

If I was paranoid I’d think that using a computer with an operating system made by the company run by the richest Democrat in the world, connected to a cable network run by the former Mayor of New Orleans, using an email system developed by a company run by two die-hard Democrats and also the largest and most successful search engine in the world, and all of the rest of it, I could get pretty agitated. But I accept it because:

Listen folks:

During the tech boom, the president was not Ronald Reagan. It was Bill Clinton.

And what should I do if they do? I don’t have any choices there. If they cut me off, they cut me off. It’s been that way since 2007.

At this point I don’t give a damn who runs the show, Neil. I can’t even afford to pay for gas to drive my car.

To comment on Redstate is that I have very little left to lose, and I have less and less doubt every day that my family is going to lose everything they ever worked for. So what does it matter who runs the email?

The wealth redistributionists are going to have a hard time redistributing anything from this Republican: they can take it all and they’ll wind up having to pay more to have it hauled away than it’s worth on the market right now. They can throw my family out on the street and it looks like the banks are going to do that pretty soon, and they’ll go back to Connecticut and they’ll be OK. I’ll go on welfare here in Massachusetts.

Those are the facts of the economy where I’m sitting right now. I have people who look at me every day and think I’m rich because I have a business and all these machines and a building and it’s all a huge liability that is going to destroy my family unless the economy turns around.

The bankers will take it all and they’ll just cross me off on a line item somewhere. The politicians will just email someone else for donations. It won’t matter one iota to any of them that my family is driven into poverty as a result of their combined, complicit, absolutely coordinated malfeasances.

They’re going to take it all back before anything starts to turn around: Big Banks and the Big State are going to have it all again, and then the cycle will start all over.

It was preventable. It wasn’t an unforseeable problem. The root cause was lending to people who could never be expected to pay back the loans, at the Federal level and then dragging private companies into doing it, or maybe vice-versa, who cares?

It was a foreseeable thing, it wasn’t esoterica: you can’t lend money to people who have no hope of paying it back for purchases as large as homes. But everyone held hands and did it anyway.

Illinois is a godforsaken wasteland today because of Rod Blagovich’s 2003 election campaign in which he recommended the State borrow 10 billion dollars. I was in Illinois at the time and everyone I knew who was sober just shook their heads, but a lot of those people voted for the SOB anyway. When he was elected governor it was because the Donks were still giddy about having kicked out Ryan, sending him to jail: nobody really cared, in the largest sense, about what a horrible, horrible man Blagojevich was. But you could see it, you could smell it in Chicago at the time.

Illinois has become the fiscal laughingstock of the country because of the Democrats and their boy-king former Governor, they’re worse off than almost anyone but on approximate par with New York State and California. But none of the Democrats can admit how wrong they were: they want to continue the policies of borrow and spend on the backs of the people here in the US.

It can’t last much longer. There isn’t much “back” left. The cuts are going to have to come first, and that’s going to hurt, but at least it won’t be leveraging an absolutely unsupportable burden on to the backs of the generation growing up right now. All of us will have to sacrifice something, but my God we shouldn’t do what they want to do.

That’s what HAPPENED. I lived in Chicago and I saw the value of my crappy Garden Condominium that had all the HVAC and heating done with illegal labor increase by 200% in five years.

I sold it near the top of the market and I was scared to death to sell it that high, and I felt guilty for doing it: it wasn’t worth what I sold it for, but I could have waited another 6 months and gotten another $50 grand for it.

Nobody who wasn’t in these places understands the nexus of the easy money, the greed of the real estate agents, the builders, the developers, and of course the local and state governments who relied on the ever-increasing tax revenues they were supposed to bring, not to mention the too-good-to-be-true construction deals, all the buildings ripped out and gutted for condos, etc., etc.

I lived in the tallest all-rental apartment building in the world, in Chicago, on Lake Shore Drive just before it went condo. It was a heady time, people thought it was a gravy train that would last until 2010 or later. They were offering people who renters bonuses to *release* their rentals because they thought they’d sell them.

Now there are as many foreclosures and for sale signs in that building as you care to count.

I’d appreciate some forebearance for having survived their turpitude. It won’t take much to get the people who really count the nickels dimes and pennies back on their feet, but not if you plow them into the ground.

I have the feeling we’d get along very well and have a lot of laughs, sitting around the campfire, trying to figure out what we were going to try to eat that night .