Cash for Clunkers

Yeppers, the program works really well. I open up government store and give away $4,500 checks. Might have a line several miles long, as long as the government is giving away money it will work until all the people who can afford to buy cars have done so; then demand will dive. No cars will be sold! Why? Demand has artificially been pulled forward, creating a void in the future. At 5% interest on 30 years bonds x how much money.

As to the enviorment, buy the chucker, kill then engine, separate it from the body, crush it, put it on a ship, so China can melt it down, make it back into cars which will be sold back to us by GM in China, now let us pay the interest on the money for 30 years at 5%. Where does the solvent go after the engine is killed? Does is cost any co2 to ship the cars, energy to crush, gas to ship them to the crusher. Brilliant. You really believe the process saves anything.

Think people, think!

Another bight idea sponsored by the government. Kick em all out!

Prison Reform

I think all people in prison should be forced to smoke pot each day at regular intervals. Instead of working out and fighting. There would be a lot of guys with the munchies, fighting would be over food; besides what guy wants to have sex with a very large stoned man in prison?

When they get out just keep giving them stamps for pot, food, and cable. No recidivism for a fraction of the price. They are all stoned and overweight. Problem solved! Next?

We must think!

Biden's Candor a Persistent Challenge for Obama

It is in the nature of jesters to speak their minds when the mood takes them, regardless of the consequences. They are neither calculating nor circumspect, and this may account for the "foolishness" often ascribed to them. Jesters are also generally of inferior social and political status and are rarely in a position (and rarely inclined) to pose a power threat. Riddle me this.

Who is the greater king's jester Biden or Gibbs?

Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere. —William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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Howard Fineman, heathcare and stocks

Mr. Fineman,

Now is seems the tide is against the President or haven't you noticed? The President's goal of riding a wave into history (read the linked article) will be great for readers in the future, but is it really the quality people want in a President of the United States? The President has divided the country into a million pieces, each of us pitted against the other, the have's vs. the have not's, the white against any one of color, the rich vs. the poor, ACORN vs. Glen Beck, the senate vs. the house, republicans vs. democrats, media vs. media, and now the insured vs. the uninsured.

Divide and conquer is the mantra, a government entity for every color, religious persuasion, sexual preference, the rich, the poor, financial regulation, health care (one for each malady); do anything to keep the eyes off the real change. The centralization of powers in the Presidency through the use of czars. Soon there will be a media czar to make sure everything is fare and Mr. Fine man will yell about his rights being quieted; but there will be no one to listen!

Back in March ( I think) S&P500 was around 665, suggested might be time to buy some stocks. Were up 300 S&P points and I do not think the rally is over. Do not like why it is going up, but who is to complain. As long as President Obama's agenda is going poorly, the congress remains impudent, and no other great calamity occurs stay with the trend, it is your friend, no matter what you think about the economy or politics. How much? Maybe 1100 or so, I would be taking money off the table if indeed a rally does happen, Things to remember - it is seasonable a week time of the year - you could see a pullback first, only play it if you are nibble. Individual issues will do better than indexes, interest rates should be rising at the same time. The market climbs a wall of worry.

Hail to the King

The press has not yet realized President Obama is skipping the press and going directly to the people through mass media and free no question ask appearances on the 3 minor networks.
When Louis the 14th set up his monarchy he went directly to the people, the revolution in France - Bonaparte went straight to the people, the same in the former USSR. Louis also had a Rahm, Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu. He sought to consolidate royal power and crush domestic factions. By restraining the power of the nobility, he transformed France into a strong, centralized state, he made the gathering of taxes more efficient; but he needed more money to fund his programs; so he raised taxes and set up leaders to represent him in different areas, sort of like czars. Now the people did not need local leader, government was centralized. He had the money to fund his programs, the right of coinage, control of the dispensing of justice, and an army to enforce the laws. Kind of like a new national police force, the fed printing money wildly, stacking the court, making nuclear decisions without consulting congress, setting up over 30 czars covered by executive privilege. It all rings of a monarchy to me. President Obama believes he is amoung equals when with heads of state, any head of state; as the old saying goes a king among kings, we are all equal.
Shakespeare wrote 23 plays 10 had to do with the problems of kingship, one of Shakespeare great worries; his other worry was his adorers. Might President Obama’s worries be the same?

Welcome to the USSA!

Cyber attacks on the US

What happened to all the great technological gurus in the current administration. They are only savvy when it comes to a blackberry or twitter. When it comes to real security the clarion call is to cut spending as fast as possible to redeploy those assets to new social benefits programs. It scares me to know President Obama and his friends are now the keepers of our nation secrets. The damage these people could do while in and after leaving office is beyond belief. President Obama is a deconstructionist and it takes a destructive force to tear something apart. The trouble is breaking people into small social groups pitting them against one another in current legislation to gain votes or remain in power is in itself destructive. Breaking the constitution down to para phrases and somehow redefine the whole also allows for a lack of a cohesive document to guide us all. Somewhat analogous to putting a puzzle together with millions of pieces. You very well may not lose one piece, but somehow the picture does not look to same all cobbled together.

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Obama & his sovereign partners

Most nations are sovereign nations - meaning that the state come first at the expense of all else including citizens. This is how President Obama views his position in relation to the citizens. The basic tenant of the Democratic party is the leaders know better what the population needs. The evidence is the 21 czars he has appointed outside the 3 branches of government which have the claim of executive power and the right to withhold information with the same. The fact President Obama is coordinating with other sovereign leaders is no surprise.

Bird of a feather flock together!

Senator Franklen

Today a picture appeared of Sen. Franklen and his wife, with the Senator holding a bible. Sen. Franklen swore an oath on a Bible he frequently mocks, to a country he routinely routed on Air America, and now wants me to believe he has earned a position of prominence in politics.



Most humour is a result on insecurity, being on the spot, not knowing what to say, a way to leave a subject which one is not comfortable. Humours segways to serious subjects or serious subject to meaningless humour. The proof will be how he comports himself in the news, on the floor, and at home. The legislation he initiates (not endorses), how he leads in a position not earned on a senate committee. Is Senator Franklen the present the senate majority needs to solidify a their hold on legislation or is he a bad present wrapped in a pretty face as he referenced himself?



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