Winners and Losers

In almost any game there is always a winner and loser, except for those rare times the game your playing allows for a draw of some sort. Even a coin has been known to land on it's side from time to time, but in the end there always seems to be the struggle of man to want to turn everything he does into some sort of a game.

Take a look at the movement of combining modern warfare with the video game industry and it's all to obvious that we've come a long way towards turning even the most hated of things into something possibly even fun.

But what's so fun about life now that we have experienced the single largest drop in the stock market's history? Well, I am sure that even on this day, there were winners and losers.

You wouldn't know it from watching the TV though as the pundits told us we had just lost over a trillion dollars. You also probably don't know that during these historic economic times, some are treating this like it's just like a game. Unfortunately, there are millions of us who have no idea there is even a game being played, so it's all on us.

It's called the game of economic redistribution where your money goes into the hands of the wealthy elite. Some have called it "trickle down", but in effect its more like "evaporate up".

The longstanding argument is that if you give all the perks to the top one or two percent of us, then they will in turn provide more for us in terms of job creation, etc. But in all these years the American taxpayer has seen jobs leave our country, and other ones being given away here at home. Of course many of these breaks still don't keep our industries from collapsing either, so the majority of us have yet to see any benefit from this unique economic model.

Now we are being asked to bail them out? And when we do, it's our money being lost in the markets? Seems like even if we win, we will lose this one.

It's a little ironic that Bush Co has given us all appeasement money after the first election and earlier this year, but in his last days will ask for it all back plus plenty of interest.

Who made up these rules anyway?