In response to an editorial in today's (New Year's Eve, 2008) Wall Street Journal, "The Market Isn't So Wise After all", by Thomas Frank ("The Tilting Yard" Page A 7) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123069094735544743.html
Mr. Frank, what are you talking about? The market is not allowed to work (no one thinks it's "wise") because of the government's meddling. The market has never and will never wander upward forever; periodic declines are healthy cleansing periods. Recessions and some lost jobs are part and parcel of the workings of the market. If the government would allow some of this to occur early, they'd be less harmful. But no! And as for the "100-year flood of fraud", get real Mr. Frank, fraud is inherent in humankind. As is gullibility and greed. You think the government can stop it with regulations, laws and the like? I have a Madoff fund to sell you. While there were certain valuable protections established during the Depression, much of the "New Deal" was damaging and extended the Depression. I'd guess the same will happen with the Obama administration and Democratic Congress continuing the haphazard mistakes of the Bush administration. Our leaders should be honest and tell us that life isn't fair, that recessions happen and are the price we pay for the growth and prosperity we all (or almost all) enjoy. This recession will extend much longer and our children and grandchildren will pay the price of this government "bailout" and inability to admit truths.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Friday, December 12, 2008
President Al
Well we didn't get Al Gore as president but it does look like maybe we got Al Capone. As of 9:25 am, Friday, December 12, 2008, there is absolutely no evidence that President-elect Barack H. Obama had anything to do with the widespread, generations-long corruption in Chicago and Illinois politics. He only saw Rod D. Blagojevich, Antoin Rezko, Rep. Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. and Sr., Ali Ata, Joseph Cari, Stuart Levine, Christopher Kelly, Tom Balanoff and John Harris and let's throw in Richards Daley (M. and L.), Al Capone and Bugs Moran, in the neighborhood. Oh, former Senator Obama was only 6 when Al Capone was alive, or his grandmother was or someone was. I guess Ayers and Rev. Wright are out of this picture and neighborhood. Sorry guys. But David Alelrod and Rahm Emanuel are out walking there, too.
And I believe in Santa Claus who is in the same neighborhood with the Tooth Fairy.
And I believe in Santa Claus who is in the same neighborhood with the Tooth Fairy.
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