Archive for the ‘Economy’
Our Great White (headed) Hope
I was leery of John McCain from the beginning. I was actually looking forward to voting for Duncan Hunter, but he dropped out of the race before I had a chance. I thought about becoming a Fred Head, but alas, he didn’t make it either. I ended up voting for Mitt, just [...]
Little Johnny and the Mortgage Crisis
A mortgage crisis, people losing their homes, mortgage banks going under. Something must be done! Yeah, the people who received home loans they couldn’t afford need to lose their house. The mortgage banker who bought those loans knew they were buying shaky assets when they bought them, they need to take the [...]
ANWaR: Artic National Wildlife Refuge
ANWAR - Nineteen million acres of controversy. According to a news bulletin released by the Department of the Interior in March of 2003, the potential for oil production from ANWAR exceeds the daily oil production for ANY onshore reserve thus far discovered in the United States.
Further, the bulletin states that with current technology, we [...]
Health Care: The Looming Crisis
I was reminded today of something I read in the London Telegraph a few weeks ago. The Brits, Lord love ‘em, have a law requiring patients going to the emergency room to be seen within, I believe it was 4 hours from the time they entered the ER. That is the government, concerned [...]
Welcome!
This won’t be a long post, but I did want to get something up on here so it didn’t look empty. It will take me a bit of time to shake out the cobwebs and get things on here the way I like them, and I will probably run through several themes before I [...]
