Ok, as Detroit gets billions for a bailout I am reminded of the analogy below. Sure it is suppose to be a joke but it hits the mark more than it does not. The argument that “you can not build a car in the U.S.” does hold true when many other car makers (other than the Detroit 3) are doing just that. 

The Canoe Race…

 
Ok, I think I have had enough. The Federal Reserve is looking at taking a new tactic on repairing the economy by addressing credit card use (and debt).  The Fed will vote on Thursday “on sweeping reform of the credit card industry.”

I am not going to get into a “who is responsible” debate but I am going to say, for the most part, excess credit card debt is a choice. Yea, yea, I know, plenty of people have it rough and had to turn to credit cards - but that is the minority. Go back five years and there were plenty of big screen televisions and vacations thrown on those cards. Now you bail them out?

Slow Bleed Test #231 - You are Illinois Governor, you know you are already under investigation for various elements of fraud, do you… 

A. Try and clean up your act?

B. Pretend it is not a problem since Obama has been elected?

C. Use your own wire-tapped phone to sell Obama’s vacant Senate seat? 

Oh my God…you chose “C”???!!!  - who would have thought anyone could be soooo corrupt and soooo stupid at the same time?!. Hell, even the bad guys in Batman have minions that run around do some of the dirty work.

I don’t like “Black Friday.” You know, the big shopping day after Thanksgiving. I am not really even sure how it received its increasingly appropriate name. I dislike it not only because I tend to avoid crowds of people at all costs - no, I hate Black Friday because it invariably reaffirms my opinion of the significant flaws in our behavior.   

On Thursday people sit around, presumably with family, and declare all they are thankful for – family, friends, food on the table, etc, etc. On Friday they turn that passion into the mass acquiring of goods at local shopping malls - an event the Romans themselves would have been proud to display in the Coliseum.

All three automotive CEO’s flew to DC yesterday to complain about how they are about to go under and basically the Congress needs to step in and help. By “help” they mean give the three automakers some big bailout money. 

I just about rolled off the chair when I read this. Apparently they have been testing antidepressants on kids and have had “great results” with the drug Sertraline (found in Zoloft).

Taking inspiration from Renaissance Guy I decided to make my own list of things the government can buy from me. Obviously they are in a big spending mood lately