"out of touch with the situation"

despite all the reading that i've done from newspapers (online and print) and economic blogs, i'm still pretty clueless as to how this economic crisis and possible collapse would affect me. A dimmer job prospective? Probably, but i've never thought it'd be easy to find one in my field anyways. And keep in mind that i'm attending [a wealthy] college in the U.S., come from a middle class family in hanoi [again, a.k.a. upper class in VN]. So while McCain may be "out of touch with the situation" of middle class America, i wonder if most of the world feel as disconnected to this big money talk as i am.

fucked up priority

every one's been talking about it: the $700 billion Wall Street bailout. An economics illiterate, i cannot comment. Let's just assume that this in the long run is better for tax payers. It's taking some money away from them, true, but the other scenario would be much worse. So the government is just choosing the lesser evil. Let's agree on that.
But what about all the public schools, healthcare system, pollution, ok, nothing new, they're all so old, but they're not worth rescuing?