2 Cents For These?

The following are worth what you paid for them but the asking price is still 2 cents per each as they say on the loading docks.
When you have spent an hour on the tarmac with no word from the cockpit about take off or pulling up the the gate, you wonder if those pilots were [...]

Madoff For Treasury Secretary or SS Trustee

Let’s give the devil his due, Bernie managed to run a giant Ponzi scheme successfully for about 20 years.   Not bad considering the whole thing was built on smoke and mirrors from the git go.   He understood quite correctly that “image” was everything and knew how to manipulate that image so others were envious of [...]

Government, Inc. Grabs Control and Law Be Damned

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It was with sadness that I have read and heard the latest news from our new seat of Industry–Washington.  The latest proposals now call for even more intrusion into the private sector by the Treasury and/or other regulatory agencies to mandate pay and pay methods for employees of the banks who did not receive [...]

Liberal Changes To Chagrin of Conservatives

Looking at a long historical perspective it occurs to me that there is a consistent pattern in a liberal view of the political and social world.  You can start pretty much any where you like with the analysis on a timeline.  Whether it is 1850, 1900, 1940 or 2000 there is a pattern to the [...]

Does “Market” Need Fix?

Only yesterday our tax cheat in chief who happens to also serve as the Sec. of the Treasury said that the market can’t fix the financial mess.   Oh, I do beg to differ.   The arrogance of such a position is mind boggling.  The “market” is all of us making our individual and collective decisions on [...]

Political Potshots From the Great Unwashed

The elites over the years have often referred to the common man or public as the “great unwashed public”.   Well, we may not have the sophistication of our betters but we can tell the difference between the real deal and poppycock more often than not.  We get fooled sometimes for a bit but usually sooner [...]