The Senate has passed the $410 billion omnibus spending bill, clearing the measure President Obama’s signature. The nation needs bankruptcy protection from bad debt.
End the bailout scam. Let those companies go broke. Stop writing more paper after paper. Cancel all farm debts and stop all farm subsidies. Free the farmers up to use 100% of good land. Shift the skilled labor from the companies that failed into other industries. A machinist from Detroit [...]
Neither Congress nor the majority of the people understand what’s going on here or what’s at stake. Billion and Trillion are just words coming from the broadcast media talking heads. They’re mixed in with tales of corporate skulduggery, wars, politics and scandals and the meaning, with the words, gets wrapped [...]
Shell is talking about a special drill used to drill curved wells to get at pockets of oil deep under the ocean floor. Well oil companies have used something like that in the past to tap pockets of oil under other countries. This was called drilling a slant-well. Shell may [...]
The way the New York Times article presents it is as though Obama is taking a page from the FDR Playbook and the Works Progress Administration which helped get us out of the depression. At least in the article they used the words “recession deepening.” Part of what’s mentioned is [...]
As I recall, the introduction of the Euro was not preceded by insane crashing markets, distrusting and disillusioned citizens, politicians talking out both sides of their asses and a recession with frequent talk about a depression on the horizon. If their goal is to get the three nations of North [...]
Back in 1929 Financial Crash it was said that some Wall Street Stockbrokers and Bankers JUMPED from their office windows and committed suicide when confronted with the news of their firms and clients financial ruin . . . Many people were said to almost feel a little sorry for them [...]
I’m sorry. I just can’t do what they want. This isn’t helping keep us from a recession or depression or whatever it is we are headed towards. If I take this money and use it to buy an iPod or camera or whatever I will just be following along with [...]
I have started doing the math concerning stuff in the grocery store. Tonight I noticed that the single pack of 72 of an item costs more than two packs of 36 because the packs of 36 are on sale. I suspect most people are thinking big package, economy pack and [...]
This is the light with the standard 40W bulbs which burn so hot they melted the white tubes. That’s 200W every time that light switch is flipped. This is the light with the new 9W CFL bulbs. That’s a little less than 1/5th the energy being used.