Archive for the 'depression' Category
Progress
Booman Tribune is a self-described “progressive community”, but for me it’s that blog I love to hate. I think the guy who runs it is, personally, a nice guy, but our views on the country and the Administration have gone in utterly different directions, to the point that I’ve tried to stop reading it [...]
Read More..>>Pathetic
I just wasted a half-hour of my life, 30 minutes i will NEVER get back, watching what was billed as a presidential Town Hall Meeting on the Debt Ceiling and Deficit Reduction.
The first question was about discrimination about atheists. Another wanted to know Obama’s biggest regrets. Another asked about compromise, what does it [...]
Eleven Dimensional Chess
Listening to WHYY’s rebroadcast of Radio Times, which deals with the impact of Tom Corbett’s methodically mad and deeply cruel spending cuts, reminded me of something I think it’s important to repeat.
Just so we’re clear, Tom Corbett and the rest of the newly-elected right wing governors care about re-election about as much as Mohammed Atta [...]
Well, I Guess I’m Not Gonna Shut Up After All.
As many predicted, Obama’s going to use the awful Ryan Plan as leverage to pass the recommendations of his cat food commission..
Look, if both parties are insisting you eat Friskies in your old age before dying on the street, maybe it’s time to start looking into other parties, many of which believe you should grow [...]
Obama is Coming for Your Social Security
Via Americablog, Obama wants to cut your Social Security. And once he blows a hole in the budget with these tax cuts for the wealthy, that’s exactly what he’s gonna do:
INSKEEP: Won’t Republicans argue — and, in fact, won’t reality argue that any cuts will have to be even deeper because this package that you’re [...]
Serious Question
Booman Tribune, on the latest foreclosure/mortgage crisis:
How do you fix this? I have a bad feeling that you don’t. But, probably you need Congress to come up with some patchwork retroactive fix. Basically, you have a bunch of people who can’t pay their mortgages. But no one can prove that they have a right to [...]
Hi, I’m from the Government, and I’m Here to Ruin Your Credit Score and Help You Lose Your House
Horrible:
At the time we applied for the [US government-administered HAMP] modification process, we had paid back up to being about three months behind on the mortgage. We got put almost immediately in a temporary program while our paperwork was being processed. While we were waiting for things to be processed, we did get an occasional [...]
Senator Charles Schumer Would Rape His Own Children if a Bank Told Him To
Although the link may have changed by the time you read this, on June 23, 2010, the unemployment rate in the state of New York was 8.3%. The US Census says New York’s total population is 19,541,453. Doing some quick math, we’re talking about 1,621,940 people out of work.
So you’d figure Senator Charles [...]
New Philly Weekly Article
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In other news, I am thoroughly on the down today, so down it’s hard to keep my eyes open and my head up. All I want to do is crawl into bed and sleep for the next 50 years. Frankly, I don’t care if I go to [...]
“Great Recession”? Gimme a Break and Call it What it IS: a DEPRESSION.
i saw the new york Times referring to the economy as “The Great Recession.
Oh please give me a break. Does this sound like recession to YOU:
A photograph from their wedding day sits on a wooden shelf in the corner, “Kelly and Scott, July 10, 2004″ in script on the frame. Her smile is wide, [...]
