September 25, 2008
Just imagine if the federal government were to give every taxpaying household in the country a $100,000 check? that would bail out Main Street, thereby impacting Wall Street immediately. It’s so simple.
I bet it would cost less than $700 billion and the economy would see an instant boost. Talk about stimulating. If only the people that represented us in Congress actually held true to who their real bosses are.
Unfortunately, I cannot take credit for the brilliant idea. (Good one, dad, I love the logic).
I have already tried contacting my representatives to present the idea to them, but of course, they are difficult to reach by phone as they are busy indebting my grandchildren for the duration of their lives.
September 22, 2008
I just want to give props to my peeps for helping to make this possible.
Newscoma for giving me the courage and pushing this thing through.
Badger for the groovy creative header and future cartoon contributions.
Now go check out their works of arts while I add more groovy links to this post.
Squirrel Queen will make you laugh.
Killa will inspire you.
Scout will impress you.
September 22, 2008
I am inclined to agree with Ed Rollins, even if he is a Republican, about his commentary offered through cnn.com concerning the lack of response by the two major presidential candidates.
I had hoped to hear an inspiring speech in support of bashing the financial bail-out proposal from Obama. We have yet to make it to that point yet. I will wait.
There were no profiles in courage last week from the political campaigns. And maybe a rush to judgment wasn’t the best course either. But the political terrain has changed.
A year ago, every political commentator would have argued that the war in Iraq was going to be the overwhelming issue of this campaign. It’s barely a discussion point today.
For the complete Rollins commentary, go here.
September 22, 2008
I found this somewhat odd that I just had to share and see if others agreed with me. According to a Rice University study of 46 people, physiological traits shape political attitudes. The study used several pictures to illicit a reaction from Republicans and Democrats.
“The participants with traditional conservative views — supportive of the Iraq war, death penalty, immigration reform and The Patriot Act — had strong physical reactions to the threatening images of spiders and calm reactions to the non-threatening images of bunnies and happy children.”
“Those with more liberal views — low support of Iraq war and higher support of gay marriage, gun control and abortion rights — showed no differences in reaction when viewing the threatening and non-threatening images. They appeared to physically react to the same to an image of a bowl of fruit and one of an open war wound.”
It’s a short blog post on cnn.com that is a must read for everyone. I think I will see if I can volunteer to participate in this study. I would be number 47.
September 22, 2008
Mainstream media outlets are spewing over with talk of a proposal by the Bush Administration that would allow $700 Billion, yes that really is $700 billion, to bail out mortgage companies.
On so many levels, I have issues with the idea of spending more money than has been spent on the Iraq War. This is money that this nation does not have nor will it have an assurance that these dollars will be replaced.
With such a heated presidential election in the forefront, including one of the most important in my short lifespan, I had hoped to hear more from the two party candidates than what is being said.
“The presidential candidates are hardly powerless bystanders in the financial crisis — as senators and as leaders of their respective parties, either could have suspended his campaign and headed to Washington to lead his party’s legislative response to the proposal.
Far from that, neither McCain nor Obama has yet to venture so much as a detailed comment on the substance of today’s proposed $700 billion bailout. Instead the candidates are sticking to party-appropriate bromides while waiting to discern the public’s reaction, and also what move their parties’ respective congressional leaders are planning to make.”
Not only will this proposal drive the national debt to $11 trillion (that’s an unimaginable number), the Dem and Repub candidates are both senators and have not expressed an adequate response to the bailout plan. I’m guessing a “hell, no” would seem an adequate response for me, but that is only my opinion.
Only time will tell and unfortunately, if I were a betting person, I would almost guarantee the proposal receives an expedient vote. Too bad our national legislators are not as quick to jump on the troop withdrawal timetables as they are to offer federal bailouts for multi-million dollar corporations.
September 22, 2008
This will be a work in progress so bear with me as I iron out the bugs and get the blogroll going so that others can participate with me. This blog will truly be a combined effort by those who feel they have little voice on local political issues.
We hope to use this outlet to bring to light national, state and local issues on a smaller scope of what impacts us: the voters.
