How many mothers are there in this country? 50 million? 70 million? 90 million? Last night Joe Biden legitimized single fathers. It’s about time. Thank you, Joe.
After the death of my first wife, I was a single father for nine years. I now hear a constant drumbeat that Sarah Palin is qualified for president for several reasons. The first is always that she is a mother. Does that mean there are tens of millions of mothers who are likewise qualified?
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The Senate is scheduled to vote today on a slightly modified version of the bailout bill. They now prefer it to be called a rescue bill, as though that made it better or more honest.
All of those calls Congress has been receiving are against bailing out Wall Street but favor rescuing Main Street. It doesn’t mean the bill has actually changed that much. It’s just an attempt to, dare I say it, put lipstick on a Congressman.
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This may be a situation where even the winners are losers. There were plenty of losers, however. The House Republicans that voted against the bill did so for the wrong reasons. But, you take what you can get.
This bill was far from what was needed. It deserved to lose. It was the result of a rush to judgment. Congress, both parties, rushed to finish in time to provide reassurance to the Asian and European markets. It didn’t work.
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Despite being a contemporary of the Bard, I admit to being far, far ‘neath the man in talent and in command of the tongue. Were I to ever fail to remember that sad fact there are hosts, indeed hordes, of persons at the ready to remind me. I knew William Shakespeare and I am no William Shakespeare.
That is more than sufficient to engage the lower mode of my manic-depression. Twer not for CBS News, I should have no need for my mania. But, life is strange and oft redeeming. I have found temporary surcease.
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Have you heard some rumors using a figure of $700 billion? You didn’t forget Fannie and Freddie and Bear Stearns and AIG did you? That was somewhere in the neighborhood of $315 billion, even before the other number started getting all of the attention.
So, let’s just round all of this off at a trillion dollars. It’s difficult at my age to maintain concentration. I keep losing count and having to start over.
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Sometimes you wonder if certain people are familiar with the Mother Tongue. Few politicians, at least since Adlai Stevenson, have been fully literate. So, we cut them some slack. Despite their profession, either most of the media share the same disadvantage or they are exceptionally forgiving to their partners in crime.
Given the quality and relationships of politicians and their media puppy dogs, it isn’t really surprising that one does not call the other on their abuse of the language. Though the majority of the citizenry claims to hold politicians in low esteem, the public seems to accept almost anything uttered from either side of a politician’s mouth.
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Well, here comes another defense of the indefensible. No. Not from me. It is the subject, the target of my post.
I wish I could remember when I first found the limits, the real limits of ideology. Was it difficult? Since I did it so long ago, it probably wasn’t that deeply ingrained. I imagine that it has something in common with an addiction. The longer you indulge the harder it is to make the break. Of no consequence to my readers, today is my 188th day without a cigarette after just short of 50 years as a smoker.
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Did we learn anything from 9-11? Apparently not. Here we are in a financial 9-11 and everyone in Washington is reacting the same way. Is it possible that future candidates will wish they had refused to join the herd? Will they say that they voted for it but now are against it?
All of a sudden Henry Paulson is the smartest man in Washington. He used to be the smartest man on Wall Street. He said no bailouts. He was the smartest man. He said a small selection of bailouts. He was the smartest man. He said $700 billion. He is the smartest man.
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No. This isn’t a cut-and-paste from Car and Driver magazine. This is really about change in that strange and illogical world of economics. Oh well. I guess I just scared everyone off.
Come on now. This is not only important but by reading this you will be several steps ahead of all of those professional economists. That’s enticing, isn’t it? Aw, come on anyway. It will be short because there isn’t much of a knowledge base on the subject of economics.
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The Nashville Metro Council has provided a perfect example of the change that has happened over the years. You probably think you are a citizen of the United States. Wrong. At least in the eyes of these politicians and most of the others around the country at all levels, you are a subject.
Do you have problems getting, paying for or retaining health insurance? The answer is to get elected to the Nashville Metro Council.
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