recession smession!

yeah! you heard me! look at every single recessive moment in economic history and you'll immediately understand what i'm talking about; the civil war and the industrial revolution: the great depression, world war 2 and massive economic boom in the states, the 80's slum and 90's sex party and now this!

we need to realize the tremendous amount of opportunity we have here! to change things for the better, perhaps the young people need to start a peace and government honesty movement for the sake of understanding all this economic bullshit so we, the people of the united states, can understand what's going on. we can use the input of our citizenship to help the needy, in our own country and across the world in catastrophic states like darfur, north korean concentration camps, child labour factories, sweatshops and slums; even cases in our own government, particularly immigration, could be relaxed and the migrant workers from Mexico, Cuba and other countries could help boost our economy if they are forced to properly pay taxes, which many will do if granted citizenship, health care and job security. (Isn't that what we all want these days...)

this is particularly relevant to new orleans, a city in need of major geographic renovation, reconstruction and redesign in a whole new light, perhaps in the style of venice, italy, with water raised and filtered, buildings renovated properly and streets cleared of debris! the french architecture would look beautiful with the water, especially the raised balconies along ursuline and that area.

Toronto could become the digital capital of the world by installing solar-powered laptops in public "internet stations" for free access for any citizen who registers their name and address with the service, who can monitor not what the citizen browses but the front and lower portion of the citizen on the laptop - this would ensure privacy as well as preventing vandalism, theft or abuse. Monitors could be installed in the highway hills and in the streets, sides of buildings, subways and more! Building restrictions could be lifted in order to create more construction jobs for creative buildings across the city! There is an opportunity for providing architects and architect students jobs for expanding our harbourfront, covered by large abandoned factories. Let's build build build!

Let's stop farting around and elect somebody who will promise to change things and ACTUALLY change them. Dalton McGuinty hasn't done much except remove dental coverage from ohip (preventing my boyfriend from getting his possibly-infected wisdom teeth removed until it becomes a "medical emergency"). Oh, and he broke that tuition freeze and raised it by the max each year since (5%, honestly not too bad in comparison to the states and LSU's funding cut).

My parents have lost a 3rd of their pension. They're afraid to move closer to my dad's new job because the market is a load of crap right now; they've probably lost a bit of property value, although the parish they live in is rapidly expanding. Their former neighbour bought a house in the hood for 550k (we're not rich, my parents just save money well like proper little Canadians). When they moved, the house sold for 520k. They lost 30 thousand dollars! Correct me if i'm wrong but that's a whole lot of money. That's my student debt and 7 thousand extra (which i will definitely not rack up).

The Fafsa loans might be cut in the future as well, who knows...which is more of a burden for my younger brother, who has to begin his education amidst this mess and massive renovations to the image arts building wherein his classes take place. Universities, however, seem to be doing well; there's a constant need for students and the government loves to fund fund fund, so Ryerson is expanding little by little and making a teeny name for itself. It's not up to par with U of T, by any means, but it's up there with York and George Brown, which Ryerson hosts.

And I still have to find another summer job! My mom is gonna kill me. I wonder what my brothers will do for the summer. I need to save up for tuition for next year and also invest in a way to get a new laptop (like a sexy mac or something linuxy with a firewire port for video capture)! I also need to start saving for a possible increase in rent next september, in case i move out of the building with someone or don't get rehired as a CA in my building. I did, however, get rehired for the summer. Yay, cheap rent and social communication! Look at me ramble on. I guess this is what blogs are for. Ha HA ha! I can't wait for this whole mess to explode in our faces. I think we deserve it for the way we've treated the world the past 8 years. But i'm an overemotional ho le mo. I miss my cats. My family and I had a great time hanging out today. Fin.