FRIDAY and
SATURDAY, October 3 and 4, 2008
Governor Sarah Palin did a nice
job the other evening, presenting herself as a viable Vice Presidential
candidate...and also as a potential President. In fact, the
electorate has three viable Presidential candidates, excluding
Barack
Obama. Although he is no longer an "empty suit", he
continues to remind me of Elmer Gantry (on Prozak). "The
Manchurian Candidate" also comes to mind in troublesome fashion.
His unbelieveable assertion that none of his chickens will have to be
taken out of some pots despite the on-going meltdown of our economy
also doesn't help. And then there is his "health care plan" and
his attacks on the reasonable McCain plan. Talk about a "great
leap backward" instead of "change". Much more on this subject has
been available for years on this web site under the Categories: Health
Law Topics, and Managed Care Information...and is even more relevant
today.
GS
WEDNESDAY and
THURSDAY, October 1 and 2, 2008
Now, why would Wall Street and its
governmental lackeys be wanting us to think that things
are so bad? GS
MONDAY and
TUESDAY,
September 29 and 30, 2008
What a spectacle in Washington
and on Wall Street these days...culminating today in the greatest
demonstration by John Q Public of
abiding distrust in
our political and business leaders. And well deserved on the part
of all of those participants, regardless of Party affiliation.
This is the result of at least a decade of inslder self-dealing with no
regard for the public interest. :It was not helped by the initial
arrogant three-page proposal of Secretary Paulson and President
Bush...literally a massive blank check to be drawn on the pockets of
every American, and with any oversight to be prohibited by law.
It was certainly not helped by the ham-handed comments by Speaker
Pelosi, just before the House vote was taken, blaming the Republicans
for the whole mess. It is fueled by a basic suspicion that
the "crisis" is being hyped by "the usual suspects" in order to
stampede a gigantic citizen bail-out of all the greedy and stupid
participants in this spectacle. And the greatest insult is
the recurring comment that this would not have happened in other than
an election year. As always, a cynical - and too often accurate-
reliance on the studied ignorance and apathy of that same John Q.
Public. Well, you finally got our attention - which is the only
way that a democracy can function. Will we remember that after
this "30 second sound-bite"?
GS
