by Jeff Franklin

Created on: June 01, 2009

Potomac Event, Chapter 1

He had been given the pink slip from the soils engineering firm about a month ago. Just like 13.5 million of his American colleagues from various firms and occupations across the country in the past year, alone. He wasn't sure his firing was for age discrimination (after all, he was 39), or for his ability to speak fluent Arabic, he had learned while working abroad in Qatar for two years after college, but it was surly one of these. For the past 15 quarters, 45 months, 1370 days, (whichever way you time this infinite, hellhole period) the merciless super depression and corporate firings and layoffs continued unabated. It was the 4th year of the first term of the present President. Neither he, the Congress, nor his administration, was doing anything about the colossal number of bankruptcies, foreclosures, mega poverty, divorces, homelessness and suicides - all happening in the last 3 and one half years. It was 1929 to 1933, again, ON STEROIDS! The President and Congress along with the heads of the Department of Treasury, the SEC, the IRS and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank were doing nothing to stop the runaway, free falling economy, nor, reimburse or restore the $24 Trillion vaporization of Wall Street money. That money was suppose to be there (in the stocks, mutual funds, 401K's, and retirement accounts) for the FUTURE of the retiring baby boomers, not to mention, the future security, jobs, savings and retirement of their kids and grandkids, in other words, for generations X, Y, and Z also. The planned destruction of these generations was well under way by the evil, elite ruling powers that be. The feudal system of predatory capitalism was fully mature and had devoured representative democracy. The poverty sector of the population, those aged 66 and under, weren't going to take it any more. Not that they were going to take this lying down, anyway.

The DOW was treading water at just under 2,500, and the NASDAQ was closed indefinitely two weeks ago when it fell below 200 points! Great were the days when he remembered the DOW well over 14,000, and the NASDAQ near 5,300. But that was nearly 4 years ago for the former and 12 years past for the latter. Mega protests had turned into street riots and broken, abandoned, repossessed, or foreclosed homes, autos and business's were being set afire here and there, but nothing of real major consequence. That is, if you look at it from the President's and Congress' point of view.

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