The Economy
Energy conservation and aesthetics
This morning, as I was seeing all too well by the light of the new LEDs in our bathroom lighting fixture, the thick black hairs growing out of my chin (I’m a fair-haired woman) I was remembering a conversation I had yesterday about energy efficiency. I was suggesting the replacement of household-wide incandescent lighting... »
No shouting, just good sense on health care reform in Illinois' Congressional District 7
Health care reform has the whole country talking and not everybody’s shouting and making fools of themselves at town hall meetings. In Illinois’ 7th Congressional District, several hundred voters/taxpayers turned out last Saturday morning for our congressman’s “State of the District 2009″ meeting. The crowd was civil, orderly and respectful. Imagine that. Well, I... »
What do economists know? Not enough apparently.
Holy Cash for Clunkers, Batman, economists were surprised that retail sales didn’t rise last month! What planet are they living on? What are they smoking? Just because Wall Street is on a roll doesn’t mean Americans are flocking to the malls once again. Even Wal-Mart, temple of Joe Six-Pack discounts, saw its revenues decline... »
It's not about health-care, get it? It's all about…
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Shoulda' put the money in the mattress
My wife is pulling all of her retirement savings out of Fidelity Investments. There’s an oxymoron for you. And they’re making her jump through hoops to do it, with the threat of early withdrawal penalties. That’s funny too. After more than 25 years as a nurse, all the schooling and extra education, working in intensive... »
Time on our hands
Just heard that a school district in Arizona is cutting the school week to four days. School kids will have more free time. And, of course, with thousands of lay offs every week, adults will have more free time too. So with so people having more hours a week to themselves, what will they... »
Debt begets debt begets debt begats, oh, you'll figure it out
Dear American People, Before you get too excited about President Obama’s Recovery plan, do you understand that the U.S. is really going into more debt to try, maybe, to dig out of the financial hole created by borrowing on top of borrowing? When will the borrowing end? When will we all stop getting drunk off... »
Let's talk about gay marriage while BushCo picks our pockets one last time
Are the economic disaster and the insanely expensive economic bailouts, that will dearly cost us and the next several generations, just another manifestation of BushCo’s shock doctrine? I think so. BushCo, after pillaging the economy and facilitating the redistribution of our wealth upwards for the past eight years - mainly using two pseudo wars, and stripping away all oversight... »