Curtis Dahlgren
'A trillion here, a trillion there - - after a while, it all adds up!'
By Curtis Dahlgren
"We have beaten the business cycle." — President Clinton (199?)
SARAH PALIN DID A NICE JOB (MAYBE TOO "NICE"?). So much for being McCain's "attack dog." But perhaps they know what they're doing, and the Senator from the Goldwater seat will be his own attack dog in the next debate (and respond to Biden's 14 lies in the VP debate).
As for the "financial crisis" and the bailout, let's not forget that "bailout" is something you do from an airplane — and a "golden parachute" won't save your life, Mr. Clinton and friends.
The attempt to scapegoat the anonymous "Wall Streeters" rather than some politicians I could name would be laughable if it weren't so deadly serious. The blame game is an insult to the "Commoners" who know better than our "House of Lords."
Senator Feinstein says she got 91,000 emails regarding the "bailout" and that 86,000 were against it — which to her means that there's "a lot of confusion out there." Rick Roberts, filling in for Michael Savage, says that politicians just "love uneducated people" (because they are more easily bamboozled).
If we can add a trillion here and a trillion there to the national debt under a "compassionate conservative," I worry about the future under a moderate GOP middle-of-the-roader or a "mainstream" (I jest) Democrat. "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party," to coin a phrase.
Now is the time for Senator McCain to throw out the New York Times and listen to the lay people. Blaming Washington for part of the financial train wreck — not just "Wall Street" — has become the third rail of politics (even though the people are asking for the Truth).
Never mind those NY-DC "journalists." The New York columnist Maureen Dowd absolutely reeks with condescension (9/11/08):
"Palin has to be a Kmart mom who appeals to Kmart moms and dads . . . When the phone rings at 3 a.m., will she call the Wasilla Assembly of God . . . . Does she talk in tongues or just eat caribou tongues?"
I must 'fess up to being a K-Mart customer (sometimes I even go to Wal-Mart!), and I get my hands dirty sometimes! Horticulture was my general field of expertise. We consider "dirt" to be fertilizer for the mind sometimes.
Dowd compares Palin to the Cockney flower seller, Eliza Doolittle, in "My Fair Lady" (doing more in one paragraph to destroy the credibility of "all the news" the Times chooses to print than being bought out by Pravda or Al Jezeera would do). Personally, I think Mo Dowd is jealous of Sarah, as surely as Mrs. Clinton must be).
[And just for fun, do a yahoo spell-check on the names Dowd and Sulzberger sometime, and see what comes up.]
Anyway, I can't claim to have any economic "credentials" (although a farm econ professor at the Univ. of Wisconsin once tried to talk me into staying in school as an econ student). But we Commoners call it "horse sense'; we were taught long ago not to live beyond our means, not to ask "what the country can do you" (and if you're going to whine, you'll probably get something to whine about).
The "bail-out" bill wasn't passed on the basis of logic or concrete necessity. It was mostly spin by the GMC (the Government-Media Complex, as Savage calls it) that passed it. Virtually none of the people who voted on it actually read all 402 pages; they hire lawyers to read it for them (as well as write these bills).
"We had to do SOMETHING" — or "consensus" or Conventional "Wisdom" — wasn't "good enough" for the Greatest Generation — nor for lots of their offspring out here beyond the Beltway in fly-over country.
DOES THIS BAIL-OUT EQUATE WITH "CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN?"
Hardly, but here's my conclusion for this week:
A guy married a blonde. She kept a piece of paper in her purse, and several times a day she would take it out, read it, and put it back. She wouldn't let the guy see it, and when he asked what was on it, she would say, "I can't tell you, but it's the about the most important thing in life."
One day the husband's curiosity was killing him, so he sneaked into her purse and read the little piece of paper. It said:
"BREATHE IN, BREATHE OUT." That's a blonde's life-support system.
I THINK WE COULD ALL TAKE A DEEP BREATHE AT A TIME LIKE THIS.
© Curtis Dahlgren
"We have beaten the business cycle." — President Clinton (199?)
SARAH PALIN DID A NICE JOB (MAYBE TOO "NICE"?). So much for being McCain's "attack dog." But perhaps they know what they're doing, and the Senator from the Goldwater seat will be his own attack dog in the next debate (and respond to Biden's 14 lies in the VP debate).
As for the "financial crisis" and the bailout, let's not forget that "bailout" is something you do from an airplane — and a "golden parachute" won't save your life, Mr. Clinton and friends.
The attempt to scapegoat the anonymous "Wall Streeters" rather than some politicians I could name would be laughable if it weren't so deadly serious. The blame game is an insult to the "Commoners" who know better than our "House of Lords."
Senator Feinstein says she got 91,000 emails regarding the "bailout" and that 86,000 were against it — which to her means that there's "a lot of confusion out there." Rick Roberts, filling in for Michael Savage, says that politicians just "love uneducated people" (because they are more easily bamboozled).
If we can add a trillion here and a trillion there to the national debt under a "compassionate conservative," I worry about the future under a moderate GOP middle-of-the-roader or a "mainstream" (I jest) Democrat. "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party," to coin a phrase.
Now is the time for Senator McCain to throw out the New York Times and listen to the lay people. Blaming Washington for part of the financial train wreck — not just "Wall Street" — has become the third rail of politics (even though the people are asking for the Truth).
Never mind those NY-DC "journalists." The New York columnist Maureen Dowd absolutely reeks with condescension (9/11/08):
"Palin has to be a Kmart mom who appeals to Kmart moms and dads . . . When the phone rings at 3 a.m., will she call the Wasilla Assembly of God . . . . Does she talk in tongues or just eat caribou tongues?"
I must 'fess up to being a K-Mart customer (sometimes I even go to Wal-Mart!), and I get my hands dirty sometimes! Horticulture was my general field of expertise. We consider "dirt" to be fertilizer for the mind sometimes.
Dowd compares Palin to the Cockney flower seller, Eliza Doolittle, in "My Fair Lady" (doing more in one paragraph to destroy the credibility of "all the news" the Times chooses to print than being bought out by Pravda or Al Jezeera would do). Personally, I think Mo Dowd is jealous of Sarah, as surely as Mrs. Clinton must be).
[And just for fun, do a yahoo spell-check on the names Dowd and Sulzberger sometime, and see what comes up.]
Anyway, I can't claim to have any economic "credentials" (although a farm econ professor at the Univ. of Wisconsin once tried to talk me into staying in school as an econ student). But we Commoners call it "horse sense'; we were taught long ago not to live beyond our means, not to ask "what the country can do you" (and if you're going to whine, you'll probably get something to whine about).
The "bail-out" bill wasn't passed on the basis of logic or concrete necessity. It was mostly spin by the GMC (the Government-Media Complex, as Savage calls it) that passed it. Virtually none of the people who voted on it actually read all 402 pages; they hire lawyers to read it for them (as well as write these bills).
"We had to do SOMETHING" — or "consensus" or Conventional "Wisdom" — wasn't "good enough" for the Greatest Generation — nor for lots of their offspring out here beyond the Beltway in fly-over country.
DOES THIS BAIL-OUT EQUATE WITH "CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN?"
Hardly, but here's my conclusion for this week:
A guy married a blonde. She kept a piece of paper in her purse, and several times a day she would take it out, read it, and put it back. She wouldn't let the guy see it, and when he asked what was on it, she would say, "I can't tell you, but it's the about the most important thing in life."
One day the husband's curiosity was killing him, so he sneaked into her purse and read the little piece of paper. It said:
"BREATHE IN, BREATHE OUT." That's a blonde's life-support system.
I THINK WE COULD ALL TAKE A DEEP BREATHE AT A TIME LIKE THIS.
© Curtis Dahlgren
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