And there will be bread lines…

Does it not seem that the Obama administration is doing everything it can to ensure that American is cast into a position of being a ‘third world country’?
It’s a frightening thought.   How much damage will this guy do before it stops?  How many of his policies will be irreversible?   So much of what he has [...]

Paying off your debt

At my current rate of pay, I would have to turn over my entire paycheck (gross, not net) to the federal government and work for more than 1,500 years to pay off the stimulus spending bill that is about to be voted on.
This bill is wrong and obscene.
The Representatives and Senators who vote for this [...]

"Gov. Palin – Who are you wearing???"

Much ado about the Palin wardrobe brouhaha. 
Is this worth the time the MSM is spending on it?  Only insofar as it allows them to pile on once again.
Here’s my opinion.  Sarah Palin is a governor of a remote (geographically speaking) state.  Her wardrobe is sufficient for the type of business she does in Alaska, [...]

Words have meanings – Socialist does not mean black, but doofus still means doofus

 
As further evidence that the left wants to control your life and shape the direction of humanity – whether you agree or disagree; whether it goes against your values or not; whether it goes against the Constitution or not – it is now apparently inappropriate to call a thing what it is.  Wrap it instead [...]

Car Loans, Main Street, Sweet Pork

Where are we headed?  Here’s a clue for ya from MotorTrend:
Are you the type who regularly checks your credit score and stays on top of every little change at the major credit bureaus? If you’re like many Americans, the answer to this is probably no, but you might want to start being a little more [...]

The definition of insanity

Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The American people give Congress a approval rating of 15%, but keep electing the same people over and over again.  We despise Congress, but feel our own representatives are okay.  Please, people, none of them are okay.  [...]

AIG: Bailout $ not enough for them to buy a clue

I don’t know how many of you saw the nice comment I got from AIG BlogResponse to my last post about AIG.  I can’t confirm it was from AIG, but an email I sent to the email address, did not bounce back and it sounded like something a PR department would say….
That’s all good, but:
State [...]

Truth about taxes…room for the middle class at the poor house

From the New York Post today OBAMA TELLS THE TAX TRUTH (below):
Original source story here.  Emphasis in red is mine.
By the way, as regards the checks from Washington sited below – where I live, that’s called welfare.  I am insulted to think that anyone wants to suggest I can’t make it without government welfare.  I [...]

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain…

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. – Barack Obama
I am the great and powerful Wizard of Oz.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
– the Wizard of Oz

I don’t [...]

FDR’s WPA, Part 2

It appears the Democrats are already planning their New Deal.  This screams of FDR’s WPA, which, while it gave us some classic architecture, was really a step toward socialism.
It just looks like more spending that we can’t afford to me and disincentives for business.
See the source article here.

Tax rebate, food stamp money possible in aid [...]

Now for something completely different, socializing your 401K

Rush Limbaugh was talking about this today, so I had to check it out.
From Investment News, here.

Congress mulls major 401(k) changes
By Sara Hansard
October 7, 2008, 5:18 PM EST
A wide range of sweeping changes to the 401(k) system were proposed Tuesday at a hearing on how the market crisis has devastated retirement savings plans.
Chief among them [...]

And the hits just keep on comin’ … $37 Billion MORE for AIG

From CBS News, here and Fox News, here
The Federal Reserve has agreed to provide insurance giant American International Group with a loan of up to $37.8 billion, on top of one made to the troubled company last month.
Under the new program, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York will borrow up to $37.8 billion in [...]

Well, that didn’t take long – OPEC emergency meeting

The Financial Times reports that almost the members of Opec want an emergency meeting due to the drop in oil prices.  Their plan:  curb the bleeding.
“Iran, Libya, Nigeria, Iraq, Venezuela and Ecuador, whose economies tend to be most dependent on high oil prices and whose ministers are among the most hawkish of the 13-member group, [...]

Yeah, that bailout was a great idea.

From the “do I have a kick me sign on my butt” file…..
It’s been a long time since I could afford a nice vacation, and with things going the way they are, it looks to be a while before I will be going again.
But I sure feel great knowing that those stressed out AIG execs [...]

Time to be patriotic

So says Joe Biden….
“We want to take money and put it back in the pocket of middle-class people,” Biden said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
Noting that wealthier Americans would indeed pay more, Biden said: “It’s time to be patriotic … time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time [...]