We cannot change history, but I would like not to create another fiscal storm. I only hope we can become a better informed nation, at least the people that vote so we can make wiser choices.
It would greatly help if we moved tax day to October before November.
I am interested in your opinion on the single payer government health plan.
Mike & counttx
The people we elect to be responsible act irresponsible, bottom line. You can blame the lobbyist of Wall Street, Trial Lawyers, Banks, Medical Businesses, and etc for tempting, bribing, and semi-extortion. But in the end our elected officials make decisions that affect everyone in this country. Those decisions affected by greed and power have damaged & weakened this country. Barney Frank did have very much to do with the mortgage crisis. Hell his boyfriend was put in a high level position to oversee the relaxation of the mortgage credit standards. Plus his partner signed off on the cooked-books to receive the bonuses. No jail time but he did have to pay back about half of what he stole. Barney Frank & his friends helped push the first dominoes that started this mess, directly or in-directly. Everyone does not deserve a house but only an equal opportunity to acquire one within their reasonable means. Wall Street will always be greedy, and always has been. Alan Greenspan's ego also indirectly contributed to this mess with the artificial low interest rates but sooner than later the crisis was coming home to roost. We were all led to believe by the experts both financial and in Washington that Greenspan was the man. He had his finger on the pulse which later we find out it was a ticking time bomb. Lack of government oversight and relaxing the mortgage credit standards had tremendous effect. If not why did this not happen earlier? Did Wall Street just get greedy in the 21st century? You have your opinion and are well informed, but from what I have read, listened to, and seen I will stick to my opinion. The root cause was not Wall Street but politicians working hard at increasing their voting base. This will happen again and will be repeated sooner than later. We have not addressed the beginning of the problem or those responsible due to politics. If the problem is not addressed how can we prevent re-occurrences? We can not. This is the Washington problem. Until we voters get smarter we will continue to elect dummies.
Some very nice words have been posted for this great man who paid the ultimate price for our freedom. It is heart breaking and sad that another American has lost his live. Another family without their father. I pray that he is at peace and that his family finds the strenght to get through this difficult time. God Bless America and all her soldiers past, present, and future. Rest in Peace Gabe.
Washington wants to make Wall Street the evil doer to cast the light away from them and they are doing a good job, real good job. Wall Street will always be imperfect, but they shine like a diamond in a goat's behind compared to Washington. We had enough agencies to police & monitor Wall Street but they were asleep. Wall Street is a success story compared to Washington. Compare Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae to the Hedge funds if you will. There were no Hedge funds bailed out with Tarp or Stimulus money the last time I checked. Some hedge funds did dissolve as they should but overall they did okay. The major & medium financial institutions that Washington bullied into giving people loans that did not deserve, played a bigger role in this train wreck than Wall Street. I still do not hear the Democrat voting base that voted for CHANGE asking for Dodd & Franks head over this mortgage crisis.
Let me correct my use of words in what you called me on or how did he say that "re-calibrate my statement". I would like to change conservative to conservitive minded (no party affiliation, okay) if I may do so. Conservitive minded people don't believe what the this current administration is selling, it stinks. We have the Social Security mess, the Medicare/Medicad mess, I do not want a HealthCare mess until we fixed the previous two. They screwed up everything else why would this be any different? I would like CHANGE for the better, but Washington needs to fix Washington before it tries to fix New York's Wall Street & Yorktown. The problem is inside the Washington beltway, not in Dewitt County Soup lines...I don't think so myself but I live in a small town but I do travel around the world and I have seen poor, real poor. Compared to the rest of the world's poor I have not seen poor in the US. In the US our poorest people are the fattest people and everyone abroad make jokes about it.
Mike you make some excellent points. Anyone can twist and spin the numbers to describe what they want people to believe. I have watched all news channels do it. But no one does the smoke and mirrors dance better that silver tongue Obama & his posse. I am troubled at the bitterness toward FOX News. Why does it bother so many people if they only have 2-3M viewers. There is no news anymore, no where, only view points. Is FOX any more slanted than any of the others? What bothers all the haters is the side they are on! We can always turn the channel or watch something else. Beck, Hannity, O'Rielly, Maddow, Olbermann, Matthews, Lauer, to name a few are not going to infect my families finances, but Obama & Washington are. Generational theft started long before Obama got into office, including in 2003 with the Medicare Prescription plan with Bush. Plus many other Presidents over the years starting with FDR. His 4-terms are not seen in the same glowing light now as they have been over the years. Neither is JFK's or LBJ's tenure in office. Washington should not spend what it does not have or more importantly will not have, ever!
Maybe we can all find some common ground with this thought. We send more than enough money to Washington already, agree? They just need to figure out how they want to spend it more efficiently and quit asking us for more from you, me, or our future generations. The more we send the more they waste. Conservitives realize this but it seems liberals want to give them a blank check and blind trust. Is there anything that Washington does well that is good for the average working family? Democrats controlled Congress for how many of the last 50-years? The graph is nice but how about the interest payments on the deficit? Thats the scary part.
So back to the cable news view points and radio talk show host. I like it when they call out people on issues, their statements, and empty promises. If the host are wrong does it cost me or you anything? No. But if they are right it is probably in our best interest that it is put on our radar screen for us to think about and continue our postings. I think all the news channels want a fight and Washington wants it more. That way we all pick sides and bicker who is better or worse while there ratings go up. All the while Washington continues with the "shell game" down on the corner of 1st & Bankrupt where the taxpayers always lose.
Speechfree loving being a liberal expressing your opinions to the world or at least a few of us. Well I think all the cable show anchors/reporters/whatever? enjoy your same views about free speech and probably free expresion including dress. Beck may dress as one but he is not one, that is important. Inside BO's closest circle are some people that have real issues not dress issues. If it bothers you that Beck dresses as a Nazi then BO's posse must drive you crazy!
Who came in second place Hugo Chavez or Michael Moore? Basically he received the NPP for what, campaigning & winning the U.S. presidency? He was in office for 12-days, .032% of his 1st year. Surely there are more deserving people that have sacrificed much in their life for the less fortunate in the world. Obama is not one of them! Who says that being weak, apologetic, and a blow hard won’t get you anywhere in this world was definitely wrong?
Thanks for the great updates Jack. I hope to see the Victoria Advocate covering Yorktown at Falls City next week. Two undefeated teams, one ranked highly in the polls, the other chasing their dream. Have a safe drive home.
Thanks shinratensei for covering the Yorktown & Pettus game. Sorry for the non-exsitent Sprint network. ATT/Cingular works excellent though. Never watched the updates here on twitter but glad to have it.
Great blog Mr. Easton. I am very sad to say you have hit the nail on the head with the future outlook for us & our children. It seems us working class tax payers are the "Andrea Gail" with the government creating the "Perfect Storm". I did not say the Democrats or Republicans, just stated the government for the obvious reason since both parties have forgotten where the tire meets the road.
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All very good points and a great blog, thanks.
We cannot change history, but I would like not to create another fiscal storm. I only hope we can become a better informed nation, at least the people that vote so we can make wiser choices.
It would greatly help if we moved tax day to October before November.
I am interested in your opinion on the single payer government health plan.
Mike & counttx
The people we elect to be responsible act irresponsible, bottom line. You can blame the lobbyist of Wall Street, Trial Lawyers, Banks, Medical Businesses, and etc for tempting, bribing, and semi-extortion. But in the end our elected officials make decisions that affect everyone in this country. Those decisions affected by greed and power have damaged & weakened this country.
Barney Frank did have very much to do with the mortgage crisis. Hell his boyfriend was put in a high level position to oversee the relaxation of the mortgage credit standards. Plus his partner signed off on the cooked-books to receive the bonuses. No jail time but he did have to pay back about half of what he stole. Barney Frank & his friends helped push the first dominoes that started this mess, directly or in-directly. Everyone does not deserve a house but only an equal opportunity to acquire one within their reasonable means.
Wall Street will always be greedy, and always has been. Alan Greenspan's ego also indirectly contributed to this mess with the artificial low interest rates but sooner than later the crisis was coming home to roost. We were all led to believe by the experts both financial and in Washington that Greenspan was the man. He had his finger on the pulse which later we find out it was a ticking time bomb. Lack of government oversight and relaxing the mortgage credit standards had tremendous effect. If not why did this not happen earlier? Did Wall Street just get greedy in the 21st century?
You have your opinion and are well informed, but from what I have read, listened to, and seen I will stick to my opinion. The root cause was not Wall Street but politicians working hard at increasing their voting base.
This will happen again and will be repeated sooner than later. We have not addressed the beginning of the problem or those responsible due to politics. If the problem is not addressed how can we prevent re-occurrences? We can not. This is the Washington problem. Until we voters get smarter we will continue to elect dummies.
Some very nice words have been posted for this great man who paid the ultimate price for our freedom. It is heart breaking and sad that another American has lost his live. Another family without their father. I pray that he is at peace and that his family finds the strenght to get through this difficult time. God Bless America and all her soldiers past, present, and future. Rest in Peace Gabe.
Washington wants to make Wall Street the evil doer to cast the light away from them and they are doing a good job, real good job. Wall Street will always be imperfect, but they shine like a diamond in a goat's behind compared to Washington. We had enough agencies to police & monitor Wall Street but they were asleep. Wall Street is a success story compared to Washington. Compare Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae to the Hedge funds if you will. There were no Hedge funds bailed out with Tarp or Stimulus money the last time I checked. Some hedge funds did dissolve as they should but overall they did okay. The major & medium financial institutions that Washington bullied into giving people loans that did not deserve, played a bigger role in this train wreck than Wall Street. I still do not hear the Democrat voting base that voted for CHANGE asking for Dodd & Franks head over this mortgage crisis.
Let me correct my use of words in what you called me on or how did he say that "re-calibrate my statement". I would like to change conservative to conservitive minded (no party affiliation, okay) if I may do so. Conservitive minded people don't believe what the this current administration is selling, it stinks. We have the Social Security mess, the Medicare/Medicad mess, I do not want a HealthCare mess until we fixed the previous two. They screwed up everything else why would this be any different? I would like CHANGE for the better, but Washington needs to fix Washington before it tries to fix New York's Wall Street & Yorktown. The problem is inside the Washington beltway, not in Dewitt County
Soup lines...I don't think so myself but I live in a small town but I do travel around the world and I have seen poor, real poor. Compared to the rest of the world's poor I have not seen poor in the US. In the US our poorest people are the fattest people and everyone abroad make jokes about it.
Mike you make some excellent points. Anyone can twist and spin the numbers to describe what they want people to believe. I have watched all news channels do it. But no one does the smoke and mirrors dance better that silver tongue Obama & his posse. I am troubled at the bitterness toward FOX News. Why does it bother so many people if they only have 2-3M viewers. There is no news anymore, no where, only view points. Is FOX any more slanted than any of the others? What bothers all the haters is the side they are on! We can always turn the channel or watch something else.
Beck, Hannity, O'Rielly, Maddow, Olbermann, Matthews, Lauer, to name a few are not going to infect my families finances, but Obama & Washington are. Generational theft started long before Obama got into office, including in 2003 with the Medicare Prescription plan with Bush. Plus many other Presidents over the years starting with FDR. His 4-terms are not seen in the same glowing light now as they have been over the years. Neither is JFK's or LBJ's tenure in office. Washington should not spend what it does not have or more importantly will not have, ever!
Maybe we can all find some common ground with this thought. We send more than enough money to Washington already, agree? They just need to figure out how they want to spend it more efficiently and quit asking us for more from you, me, or our future generations. The more we send the more they waste. Conservitives realize this but it seems liberals want to give them a blank check and blind trust. Is there anything that Washington does well that is good for the average working family? Democrats controlled Congress for how many of the last 50-years? The graph is nice but how about the interest payments on the deficit? Thats the scary part.
So back to the cable news view points and radio talk show host. I like it when they call out people on issues, their statements, and empty promises. If the host are wrong does it cost me or you anything? No. But if they are right it is probably in our best interest that it is put on our radar screen for us to think about and continue our postings. I think all the news channels want a fight and Washington wants it more. That way we all pick sides and bicker who is better or worse while there ratings go up. All the while Washington continues with the "shell game" down on the corner of 1st & Bankrupt where the taxpayers always lose.
Speechfree loving being a liberal expressing your opinions to the world or at least a few of us. Well I think all the cable show anchors/reporters/whatever? enjoy your same views about free speech and probably free expresion including dress. Beck may dress as one but he is not one, that is important. Inside BO's closest circle are some people that have real issues not dress issues. If it bothers you that Beck dresses as a Nazi then BO's posse must drive you crazy!
Who came in second place Hugo Chavez or Michael Moore? Basically he received the NPP for what, campaigning & winning the U.S. presidency? He was in office for 12-days, .032% of his 1st year. Surely there are more deserving people that have sacrificed much in their life for the less fortunate in the world. Obama is not one of them! Who says that being weak, apologetic, and a blow hard won’t get you anywhere in this world was definitely wrong?
Thanks for the great updates Jack. I hope to see the Victoria Advocate covering Yorktown at Falls City next week. Two undefeated teams, one ranked highly in the polls, the other chasing their dream. Have a safe drive home.
Thanks shinratensei for covering the Yorktown & Pettus game. Sorry for the non-exsitent Sprint network. ATT/Cingular works excellent though.
Never watched the updates here on twitter but glad to have it.
Great blog Mr. Easton. I am very sad to say you have hit the nail on the head with the future outlook for us & our children. It seems us working class tax payers are the "Andrea Gail" with the government creating the "Perfect Storm". I did not say the Democrats or Republicans, just stated the government for the obvious reason since both parties have forgotten where the tire meets the road.