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The air heads or better known as TV Commentators

I’ve been looking at television lately at what is loosely called news networks.
Why there called news networks is beyond my comprehension.
If rattling off opinions is news that’s news to me.
Now I call the the people who’s name is on the title of these shows airhead, not because they're dumb, far from it, they may be be quite intelligent, I call them airheads because they are so full of themselves that if you stuck a pin in their head they would pop. I also call them air heads because they’re on the air and they’re heads are full of nonsense. Now in case anyone should read this blog (doubtful at this time) I know what is generally described as an air head is some one who is quite dumb, no that’s not what I mean. What my problem is with someone who believes that the media means it all about me forget about dia.
I see Lou Doubs(who is the hardest working on air personality) is still not letting anybody who doesn't agree with him answer questions in a thought provo king way. His side kicks seem to be all yes men or women ( I wouldn’t want to be call a sexist). Don’t get me wrong I agree with a lot of what he has to say. I just can’t think of anything right now.
Speaking of which I some times agree with the 20 dollar hooker who appears on the Republican apology network better know as Fox News network. I don’t know if she gets paid or not (if not she’s only a 15 dollar hooker). She maybe right about those women who are holding up progress at the World Trade Center, London didn’t stop dead after World War deuce. When you build a memorial you have to make up your mind on what is to be done. Now the hooker did call presidential candidate John Edwards a fag while “Slick” was Fooling around with someone who wasn’t his wife. ( I guess the hooker thinks fag on this side of the pond is a British cig.)
Now we come to Big Bill on the Republican apology. The guy reminds me of a fop who also never lets his quest disagree with him. Also on the apology network we have Harrity or what ever that buffoon’s name is at 10oclock Eastern. To listening to him is like hearing the scratching on a blackboard, at least the teacher would be trying to get your attention to teach you something that was truthful. This clown also has a radio show. This is kind of like Rush Limbaugh show. Now I’m pretty sure that Rush is fat head who has 20 million listeners who will follow what ever he says, unfortunately for Rush there's 30 million people who will do just the opposite. I’m not going to write about Rush, he’s not on a so called news network. My favorite Fox moment by the way was watching Britt Hume have a melt down when President Obama was showing that he was going to win in a landslide. Smiling Jack (Chris Wallace) had the biggest smirk on his face and Britt complained to him.
Now we come to CNN headline News (doesn't anybody know the meaning of the words headline news mean at that station) I don’t now the name of those women and their guest but I’m tired of hearing goofballs (I don’t know if these people are really goofballs) talk about the law in the latest celebrate foul up or headline kidnapping, ect.
Now I come to what should be my favorite news network MSNBC, but I’m embarrassed by Chris Mathews, Big Keith, and Rachael Maddows. Mathews is so court up in democratic politics he can’t see the forest from the trees. Keith can’t get over his ESPN background (the worst person of the week or the 10 best plays of the week). Rachael is the flip side of Harrity, She still seems to be scratching on the black board,
I’m sure I missed a lot of commentators on “News” networks”, and even some anchormen and women.
I’m sorry I didn’t say anything about the=2 0king from Brooklyn. Or Jerry Rivera or the Wolf, I just haven seen them enough.


What ever happen to the old Soviet Union Television News Writers and Producers?

I was wondering the other day as I was watching Fox News, what ever became of the old Soviet Union’s news writers and producers?
I don’t think they came to America, even though every time I would see a Bush spokesperson or even the the ex-president himself I would say to myself sounds like a lot of cow dung, kind of what I’ve been told the old Soviet Union used to put out. I’m writing this of the time when the old administration was in power. They would give dry statistics that where misleading if not dead wrong. They would talk about winning a war that every one new that we were losing. hold on let digress for a moment. I can do that because this is my blog. We actually did win the war called Iraqi Freedom (I think that what they called it). The set goals of this conflict was to get rid of Sadam Husain and make sure that Iraqi didn’t have any weapons of mass destruction or the means to make them. No one can claim we didn’t meet our goals, Sadam is dead and Iraqi doesn’t have weapons of mass destruction (even though they never did, they don’t have them now).President Bush was right when he said Mission accomplished, now he backtracked on20something he got right the first time. The administration changed the goals in mid stream kind of like the old Soviet Union. The Bush administration kept telling us how wonderful the economy was and that we had nothing to worry about, just like the old Soviet news cast. What ever the Bush administration would say I would assume just the opposite. If it was pouring rain and I saw it, and the administration said it was raining I wouldn’t believe my own eyes. Sorry I digressed.
The Fox News channel is which in my (informed?) opinion should be called the Republican mouth piece on the tube. I at one time called the net work the Bush apology network. Anyway this proper gander machine sounds like the old communist television. Attack and make fun of what doesn't go along with the Republican program, just as the old Soviet stations would do. ( I love the Fox Logo Fair and Balanced. They should be sued for false advertising. Unless you consider lying and be lock in step with he Republican Party fair and balanced.)
The whole point of this exercise is trying explain that it’s very possible that the old Soviet Union writers and producers offered classes to the Republican party and Fox News how to slant the News. How to lie and make it seem like the truth.

The common sense approached to economics

What ever happened to the common sense approach to economics? That s not true there never was a common sense approach to economics. Take the approach to what we commonly call the great depression (this is compared to not so great depressions). Roosevelt our president at the time gave a stimulus package to end all stimulus package until now? The president’s stimulus package was called public works. Now in order to cover the cost of the public works program the president had to barrow money. There are many fools (I sorry I’m insulting real fools these people are just lazy) who believe that this prolonged the depression. There argument is that we had many depressions called panics before and we got out of them with out government interference. (Of cause these brilliant people never take into account that we were an agricultural society prior to the late 20s. (There are some people who actually claim that there was an agricultural depression prior to the crash of the stock market. I kind of agree with them)) The depression didn’t end with this stimulus package in American history. Yes this is totally true the great depression didn’t end with the first stimulus package. No the great depression ended with an even greater stimulus package known as World War II.
The problem with Roosevelt’s original stimulus package was the pay didn’t give the workers discretionary income. Another problem with Roosevelt’s stimulus package was he panicked with the deficit and raised taxes there by decreasing discretionary income, there by making the depression worst. My theory if right that if the population had larger discretionary income they would buy goods and services from the private sector creating more need for more workers, creating more wealth, creating a larger tax base, and greater income paying for the original stimulus package. If my theory is correct the current stimulus package is not enough. Not nearly enough. Of cause the majority of the world see things quite the opposite there scared of something that is different then what they were taught.If you don’t believe what I have written in this blog about President Roosevelt and the great depression all I have to say like the old professor would say you can look it up.


What Social Security is suppose to be.

I heard a lot about what social security is suppose to be from various sources, Television, newspapers and even the social security administration it self. I saw this in the Chief, the head of the New York Social Security Office stated that Social Security is part of a three leg stool (pension, savings, and social security.) The only problem that I see in this argument was no were in the social security law or quotes from President Roosevelt stated that this was the case. In fact when President Roosevelt signed the law he stated no longer will older Americans when they retire will have the fear of living in poverty (I’m paraphrasing the president). The Federal government originally opted out of Social Security for there pension was strong enough. State and city government also could have opted out. That Social security was part of a three legged stool as far as I can tell is just an other urban myth.
I understand that the original purpose for a 401k and IRA was a way for citizens to save not to replace pension plans but to supplement it.



What is a trillion dollars?

If you gave every person in this country one dollar that would equal 300 million dollars.
If you were to give everybody in this country 10 dollars you would have 3 billion dollars
If you were to give everybody a thousand dollars you would have 300 billion dollars.
If you were to give every person in this country 10 thousand dollars you would have 3 trillion dollars.

10 thousand dollars isn’t really that much money, is it?


What IS A Camel?

What is a camel? A horse made by committee.
What wrong with the democrats health care package? It’s being drawn up by committee.


Cash for clunker s

We all know that the American car companies are in the toilet(well I think we know that).
Our government is now giving money for people to more fuel efficient cars. Of cause the cowardly lions of this country are screaming there heads off. If they really lost their heads it would be no loss. Screaming their heads off is a figure of speech. I really didn’t mean for anyone to lose their heads. The car industry in this country is probably the 3rd most important industry behind the construction industry and the computer industry( I’m not counting finance because I just don’t feel like it). Retail is probably forth. Were not the only country that chooses to help the consumer, were just the only country were people complain about it. Do I think it will help the economy, no but it’s not going to hurt the economy. Now I keep hearing others giving their snide comments on what else we should give money to as cash for clunkers washing machines that are energy inefficient. Or cash for dilapidated houses that no one in their right mind would want ( You know the kind of place that guy with crazy hair sells). I have a better idea of the next cash for clunkers. Lets pay the voters a bounty for every clunker of an elected official they get rid of. Those are the clunkers that really need to go.




Lets ju st print the money

This country is full of know it alls.
Yes I’m one of them, a know it all. We have lost over 17 trillion dollars, and we have only replaced it with 1.5 trillion, and the best and the brightest why the recession isn’t over? People in state government are being furloughed therefore having less money to spend (less discretionary income)and our brightest still don’t understand why the recession isn’t over.Oh right one of our vaunted news magazine proclaimed the recessions is over.
I keep hearing that if the fed prints money we will have runaway inflation? The reason as everyone knows who took basic economics knows that inflation is caused by too much money chasing too few goods. It seems to me we only look at the first part too much money, what happened to the second part of the equations, too few goods. This happens when you have a bankruptcy such as GM and Chrysler as they cut the amount of cars being produced this should raise the price of cars ( unless the foreign car makers flood the market with their cars. the closing of refineries making refined oil products go up. This is the second part of the equation.
We all know what happened to the Germany after World War I when they started printing money. You needed a wheel barrow full of Marks just to buy a loaf of bread. I ask the question did printing money cause runaway inflation or was the printing of the Mark because their was runaway inflation because of the war reparations that the allies posed on Germany. We have another case of printing money and runaway inflation in Zimbabwe, again the lack of goods appears to be the real reason of runaway inflation.


The Great Big Paulie

Big Paul was the Fed chairman appointed by President Carter ( The most constipated fiscal conservative President in my life time). He is generally felt to be the greatest inflationary fighter in the 20th century. I consider him to be the man who almost single handedly brought down the economy. Of cause I was sleeping during the age age of Reagan. If you don’t believe all I can say is the only positive that I know he did was the collapse of the Soviet Union and I keep hearing what a great president he was. Reagan was so great that he belongs on Mount Rushmore. I keep hearing how he lowered taxes, funny my taxes went up after I couldn’t deduct interest from my credit card or my car. President cut and run Reagan of Lebanon fame who let over 300 marines die in vain leading to the belief in the Arab world that this country is soft. Any how getting back to Big Paulie under his tutelage as president of the Federal Reserve he became known as the great inflation fighter because he raised the interest to over 20%, which was also the unemployment rate ( equate s to 9% in the present day government reporting). When you raise interest rates the price of goods and services rise to help cover the cost ( my definition of inflation the price of goods and services rising). Now like I was saying in the beginning of this blog I was asleep during the the Reagan years, so I had to get this information from the Al Gore invention. Anyhow prices stabilized and employment recovered there by giving the rise to the belief that Big Paulie was the savior because he stuck to his guns. Of cause the collapse of oil prices had nothing to do with it,nor the pent up demand for goods and services outside the United States for our products because this was the start of major trade deficits, foreign nations had our money and was starting to buy the goods at that time we were the only ones producing ( which are now being produced overseas). Of cause Big Paulie had nothing to the collapse of the stock market because we had a new fed chairman who was put in place by the white House Chief of staff to ease the credit crunch just weeks before (Or so I believe I saw on CNBC that reported the crash of 87).



Canadian coming here because she couldn’t get her operation in Canada.


I saw that darn commercial were this Canadian woman said she couldn’t get her life saving operation in Canada, That9s why she doesn’t understand why we want to change our health care system.
My question to this woman is who paid for this operation? Did the tax payer in this country paid for it? Did the Canadian health insurance pay for it? Did she have enough money to pay for it herself. If she did she would have been better off go to Panama were over 10,000 Americans went for operations? I must live in a bizzaro world,depending were you live in this country and what your insurance is you might not get diagnosed at all (or even over diagnosed).