A country of fascists, addicts, and simply greedy bastards we have become.  A number of us think it is perfectly OK to shoot our mouths off about starting another war with a very strong country on the trumped up charges of trying to build a nuclear weapon while our president signs a bill that lets [...]

It won’t start like other “civil wars.” It will start by this or that poor person killing the first rich person that puts a “face” to the frustration that the “little guy” is feeling. It might be a local banker or just someone driving a Porsche. The poorest of the 99%, who have nothing to [...]

The NY Times is going to write a five part series on whether anyone can create a job. I have answered the question in 5 paragraphs… When asking the question, “can anyone create jobs,” the answer is simple. Yes, you just hire someone and “poof,” there it is– a job. There is all this talk [...]

Let me try to make this very simple.  Social Security and Medicare are not part of the problem.  They are part of the solution.  They are NOT part of the deficit.  Cutting them will not make the deficit less.  Cutting them will reduce the revenue side of the equation and make the deficit bigger.  Everyone [...]

You know what the real problem with getting “old” is?  The real problem with getting old is that you remember.  You remember things you shouldn’t. I inherited one of those leather Kleenex holders, one that clips to the sun visor of your car, from my father-in-law when he died.  It is one of those items [...]

1950 Buick Roadmaster Have you ever been fired?  It knocks your socks off.  If you are any kind of person, you always try to do your best, and then, often through no fault of your own, it’s, “Adios.”   Pick up your stuff and leave.  Try as you might, the one thing you cannot take with [...]

Alex wrote of the fear she had of American Capitalists growing up and they had an underground shelter at her school in case we bombed them.  There was concern about survival and the Middle East. It looks like your leaders cared a bit more than ours.  We had no underground shelters.  We were told to [...]

A FB friend in Russia had read some “propaganda” about how we are trying to reduce the population in the world and I replied with my own fresh look at who we really are… There is no doubt about it.  Wars reduce population.  And there is a STRONG sector in the US that strives to [...]

The problem of unemployment here is a bit more complex about outsourcing.  If it cost $30,000 to make a car here and it can be made somewhere else for $3,000, then it makes sense to make it there.  It means that that country has a greater economic advantage for making cars. Countries that have a [...]

Thanks to GW, the people making $250K a year have been paying lower taxes now for the last decade.  Meanwhile our unemployment rate has soared.  Boehner would have us believe that raising the taxes on the rich would kill job growth.  Really?  What job growth? When Clinton left office it appeared that we were near [...]