Sep 05 2010
The first Rule of Holes: When you’re in one, STOP digging.
Stop Digging? Check!
Heck, even Erin Burnett (of CNBC) admitted the Stimulus is working, today on MTP … that
“Without the stimulus we would be significantly worse off than we are now.”
— any serious economist says so. … She has the charts.
so do we.
May 26 2009
(The following was cross posted from Economic Populist and Venomopolis.)
I’m a sucker for barbecues, especially good ones. Normally I’m not a “family” person, but I am a people person. When it comes to barbecues, though I tend to even go to the ones my family puts out. This year I hosted, unfortunately the weather was not on my side and being someone into risk management I decided to hold an “indoor bbq.” The food, as always, was good, but my other type of appetite was also satisfied, my hunger for news and tid bits
Nov 22 2008
I found this rather touching story and wanted to share it with you.
“We all did what we had to do, buddy boy”, he told me. “They was good jobs and it was how I could take care of y’all.
Like thousands of our fathers, he joined the picket lines and fought to make a living for their families.
..he joined the union and walked the picket lines in the brutal Michigan winter for health care and better wages. He watched other people driving around in new cars he had helped to build but he could never afford to own. A million little worries and a dozen big troubles in a cold, gray place without family nearby caused him to fall to pieces. He spent time in an institution and when he was cured he had nothing to look forward to other than going back on the line. But the automobile industry gave him possibilities he was not able to find anywhere else with his tenth grade education.