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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

The aftermath of the Wall Street meltdown and bailout will be heavy  
with who is to blame for our economic misfortune. As personal  
discomfort builds, so, too, will anger at "them." "Them" and "they"  
will include the current and past presidents, Fed chairmen,  
secretaries of the treasury, sundry members of the DC Whorehouse, CEOs  
and anyone else journalists can think to point their keys at.

Fully living life today includes staying informed about what's going  
on that might affect the individual, whatever their position. To be  
uninformed is to be vulnerable.

I demand and take full responsibility for my choices, actions and  
results. Whatever happens to me is the result of those choices. If I  
did not keep myself informed, that is my fault. If I made a bad  
choice, that is my fault.

I expect all the above individuals to be greedy and corrupt. I expect  
them to be self-serving. And I sure do expect them to blunder. I have  
never been disappointed.

If I wanted to pass the buck I would blame it all on the Christian  
God. That is the god that most affects my life, through the leaders  
who take their guidance from that direction.

Epicurus purportedly and famously asked of God: "Is he willing to  
prevent evil, but not able? Then he is impotent. Is he able, but not  
willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence  
then evil?"

Sometime in my early twenties I concluded that if the Christian god  
exists, then he is a puppeteer who created mankind for his amusement.  
Why? Because he was bored and because he could.

So either take responsibility for your choices, actions and results,  
or blame it on God. It's a choice.