Say What?

I just saw Anthony Wiener on  the Bill Maher's' show on HBO. He sounded reasonable that this country should have government run healthcare, sighting that medicare is run cheaply (though it's running out of money) an that those receiving it are pleased with it, after his segment I channel surfed and saw an add by AARP for supplementary health insurance. I guess not every senior citizen is  satisfied with medicare.
I kept surfing and saw an add by the heritage foundation  (who's heritage I do not know) stating that under the new government  proposals you might lose your doctor, I hate to inform  these lune's, but doctors leave plans all the time because they don't like the fees. I lost my gastric oncologist because of this.
We just can't trust anyone nowadays.    

Your Children and Your Grand Children Will be Paying for This

You know that I’ve been told many times over that the United States can’t afford to spend money to create jobs, to protect the environment, to fix the infrastructure.


Let me try to understand this logic. My daughter can’t get a job, therefore she will not have to pay for the government borrowing money. Sounds reasonable, except I wonder who’s going to pay for college education. Well at least she wouldn’t pay for the budget deficit.



I was wondering what ever happen to the idea that I learned in High School economics that in the olden days of this country the farmers would borrow on the hope of inflation, in other words borrow low and hope for big profits.

what a re volt ing development

Now that I have stock in a car company along with every other American, I should have a say in how the company is run. Now the first thing that we have to do is keep the bureaucrats from telling president of General Motors how to run the company. It seems to me that bureaucrats forced General Motors to make the new YUGO, better know as the Volt. Our car company seems to be putting all it’s eggs in one basket, the basket  known as stupid. The car cost $40,000 as if the average consumer can afford $40,000. The car is especially good in the city for the charge doesn’t last very long. The problem with that is in the North East it's very difficult to charge, unless of cause the owner of the car has a very, very long extension cord. Now if the owner wanted to go on a long trip there is a small gas powered engine that resembles a lawn mower engine, that can’t even charge the battery. If you plan to take a long trip, when you stop, you must expect to plug the car into a socket for eight hours. Hoping that the place were you stop has a place to plug the car into, or you have an exceedingly long extension cord.


If this is the best that we can do, I have to start worrying about GM’s engineers.

Now for a foot note; General Motors car that is selling the strongest is the Camaro a gas guzzling hog. You can’t buy it without paying a premium from the dealership.

Self water boarding

I must be a masochist; I just subjected myself to water boarding.


I watched five minutes of the Glen Beck Show

The smartest man in the room

We of the empire state elected a Governor who proclaimed himself as the smartest man in the room when he went to his first governor's conference or at lest I've been told. I have no doubt that he's Mensa material of which I'm not. I don't think I would have unprotected sex with a prostitute. Every teenage boy is taught not to have unprotected sex, and those who have unprotected sex are looked down as dolts, or being pretty dumb. Here was a top notch prosecutor who got caught up in money laundering to pay for his unprotected sex bring a women across state lines for sex violating the Mann act. Ah yes he was the smartest man in the room. He was the brilliant man who brought David Paterson in as lieutenant governor. Now I've been told by several people who met him that he was very smart. That was before he became governor. Here is a man who when faced with a fiscal crises believes that getting the OK from the union's to give there OK for a tier five ( this is something that anybody who has any knowledge of the state constitution knows that pension and pension reforms are non negotiable)in exchange he'll give $20'000 for people to leave state service. the people who took him up on the deal were going to leave state service in 12 month anyway, or so I've been told.
What happened to the state that had at one time the greatest forward looking governors, Clinton, Cleveland, the two Roosevelt's, Dewey , and Rockefeller. All you can do is look to the heavens and wounder.