The hubris may never end with this guy..........

"I could've checked it down to the back," Vick said. "I feel like I got greedy and took a shot at the end zone, didn't throw the right ball I wanted to throw. It's a bad way to go out, but hey, I went out swinging."

Laugh, just laugh............

Year to date statistics on airport screening from the Department of Homeland Security

Terrorist Plots Discovered 0

Transvestites 133

Hernias 1,485

Hemorrhoid Cases 3,172

Enlarged Prostates 8,249

Breast Implants 59,350

Natural Blondes 3

Be smart..........

LIQUIDITY COUNTS


KNOW WHERE YOU ARE

DON’T GET CAUGHT IN A STAMPEDE

DEFINE THE RISK

DON’T PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET

CUT YOUR LOSSES

CONSIDER THE WORST CASE

STICK WITH WHAT YOU KNOW

THE MARKET DOESN’T CARE WHAT YOU THINK OR HOW YOU FEEL

MONEY FOLLOWS EARNINGS



IS THE MARKET RIGHT?

IS THE SECTOR RIGHT?

IS THE STOCK RIGHT?

IS THE ENTRY POINT RIGHT?

Briefly speaking.............

Where are today's youth?  Why aren't they screaming for a balanced budget or to get our troops out of Afghanistan?  Does anyone care under the age of 30?  Is wanting hope and change and getting Obama's central planning enough to be concerned about their future?

Maybe it's all just a bad dream.

Perspective from a fly-over state............

Dear Federal Government,


I respectfully ask you to stop. Stop paying unemployment, and other entitlements.

I simply can't compete with you. We have the worst unemployment in nearly 4 decades yet I can't seem to hire people. My new business would love to hire a bunch of people, but the DOL and the state, will not allow me to pay them straight commission because of stupid "independent contractor" rules. So I'm forced to pay them, at least, something.

So I'm offering $10/hour plus bonuses. Within 4 months an employee should be making $4,000 - $6,000/month (good money in this part of the world).

But I can't compete with unemployment and food stamps. Working for me, for the first two months, someone would make a few hundred dollars a month more than they would make on unemployment and food stamps...or they could make $200 a month less sitting at home without the "effort" of having to get out of bed and and actually work. I know you don't want to believe this dear Uncle Sam, but there is a HUGE number of people that will choose to sit home and do nothing. Don't believe me....check this out:

My new company put an ad in several publications to hire salesmen. We offered a good base plus bonuses (as outlined above). Believe it or not, with the massive unemployment we have in America, we only received about 30 resumes. Out of those 30 resumes' we were only able to schedule ~ 15 interviews (all interviews were set to occur within 24 hours of our phone conversation). Of the 15 interviews that were set, only 7 people actually showed up at their scheduled interview time. Of the 7 people that showed up, we extended job offers to 6 people, and all 6 accepted the offer. They were schedule to start training today at 8:30 am.

Of those 6 people that accepted the job offer and said they would be here to start today, only 3 actually showed up to start work this morning.

My dear Uncle Sam, please understand that your paternalism of entitlements is destroying this country. The jobs that were out there 3 years ago are no longer there. People are going to have to settle for less, but they are unwilling to settle for a lower paying job when they can sit home and do NOTHING and collect unemployment and food stamps.

This problem has to be fixed and fixed now.

Although there are more, here are a few things you can do to help alleviate this problem:

1. Stop unemployment after three months. You'll be surprised by how many people actually find a way to work when they have too.

2. Drop the rules for "employees vs. independent contractors". Let businesses hire people on straight commission. There's a lot of people out there willing to work to under those circumstances and I know a lot of businesses that would be willing to hire people on a "pay for performance" basis.

3. Free up IRA, 401k and all other retirement/pension money. Let people use their retirement money to start a business and do NOT tax it. Let them withdrawal their money tax free and penalty free and start up a business. Let them pay themselves (and others) wages and buy equiptment and rent office, etc. etc. (whatever they want to do with that money).

4. Tell the IRS and DOL to STOP, STOP, STOP!!!!! Stop auditing and stop making life miserable for small business owners. I know more small business owners that are dealing with IRS and DOL at this moment than I have ever seen in my 24 year previous years in the business COMBINED. Uncle Sam, you can create fear and loathing when you threaten the engine that drives this country. Small businessmen are ready and willing to take the risks necessary to drive this country forward.....we just need you to get out of the way.

5. If any of this makes sense to you, the best way to implement it is to just do it. I know you have a massive proclivity to want to micromanage all of this and put into place all kinds of rules and conditions on how it should be done.....but you can NOT NOT NOT NOT do that. We don't need another jobs bill. We don't need you to micromanage this process. All we need you to do is repeal some laws that are on the books to free up capital and then GET OUT OF THE WAY. We small businessmen will take care of the rest.

Warmly,

A Small Businessman

Comprehending our national debt.........

To better put our national debt in perspective let's look at our obligations in units of time.

One million seconds is about 11.5 days.

One billion seconds is about 32 years.

One trillion seconds is more than 30,000 years.

This is COLD, really cold.............

Just got off the phone with a friend in Montana. He said that since early this morning the snow has been nearly waist high and is still falling.  The temperature is dropping below zero and the north wind is increasing.

His wife has done nothing but look through the kitchen window all day.

He says that if it gets much worse, he may have to let her in.

Only the truth please...........

Guess what extremely charismatic (if extremelier teleprompted) future leader of the free world uttered the following rhetorically elegant, if completely and utterly hollow, words:    "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."

If you said Barack H. Obama, give yourself a golfclap. And if you are scratching your head furiously at the seemingly unbelievable hypocrisy after how just four years later, the president's own economic advisor Austin Goolsbee said that a refusal by the Senate to increase the government’s debt ceiling would be “catastrophic” and a sign of "insanity" don't worry, you are not alone. In fact, very few people can believe the self-professed "insanity" of the very people who four years ago were all about prudent fiscal behavior but now couldn't give a rat's ass about drowning the country in $150 billion in debt each and every month.

And some other observations on the teleprompter's facility with swaying in the wind via the National Review Online:      In 2007 and in 2008, when the Senate voted to increase the limit by $850 billion and $800 billion respectively, Obama did not bother to vote. (He did vote for TARP, which increased the debt limit by $700 billion.)   Sen. Jim DeMint (R., S.C.) told Human Events in an interview released today that the decision about the debt ceiling “needs to be a big showdown” in the Senate.   “We are going to cut [spending] necessary to stay within the current levels, which is over $14 trillion,” said DeMint.

If by "big showdown", DeMint means the latest pathetic theater of, for and by the government, which pretends to care about the middle class, while continuing to pander to the top 0.1% of US society, then he is absolutely spot on.  But yes, the president is correct. Americans do deserve better... than the corrupt puppet frauds that are allegedly representing their interests in the judicial, legislative and executive branches of the Wall Street purchased US government.