I WANT YOUR MONEY Should Be Seen By Everyone

This is the trailer of a film coming out in the Fall (hopefully released in all theaters with plenty of time to be absorbed by a distracted populace), which appears to be very cleverly done, entertaining, and enlightening (sorry Glenn), and sorely needed.  If people aren't shaken out of their sitcom-app-computer game stupors, this country will keep re-electing the status quo --or enough of them to keep causing trouble.  And we can't have that, can we?

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I got it from A Dei in the Life.

A Million Dollars A Day For 2,000 years!

A million dollars a day for 2,000 years and what do you get? Another day older and DEEPER in debt...

This is all a win-win for Obama. If he were to get us out of this mess, he would be a hero. If not, then we become what he always dreamed of...a socialist state.

The ad comes from the American Issues Project. Check them out.

Now Your Retirement Savings Are Their Toybox

You probably remember how Congressional Democrats and their amplification network in the MSM had a cow when President Bush proposed an exciting proposal to shift workers' Social Security contributions to private investment. The worker would benefit from growth on his investment by retirement, and the government would have a lessened obligation to support him. At that, the worker's private investment would have been only a portion of his Social Security taxes, and only if he opted to participate. Yet, the Dems went ballistic at the very idea of privatizing any Social Security monies whatsoever. The Bush proposal died a quiet death, and your FICA payments are under federal control.

With the Democrat takeover of Congress and the White House coming in January, hearings now taking place in the House already point to the sad fact that they can't wait to sink their meathooks into your private retirement savings, because now that the American electorate stripped themselves of effective Republican checks and balances, the FICA taxes you and your employer pay aren't enough to feed the Democrat beast.

Discussions are underway regarding the money you've earned, sacrificed to set aside for your future, made your own cost-benefit decisions as to where to invest it - and take it all away from you to put in an account run by the Social Security Administration.

What's your stock fund making you annually over a 10 year average? Probably in the ballpark of the average return on the stock market from 1926 to 2005, which was 10.4%. Your confiscated retirement funds would be removed from the private sector and deposited in government accounts, for which they would pay you a piddling 3% interest.

If you have loved ones who are depending on your retirement funds as their inheritance, don't drop dead. The government is raking off half of it.

Read about it here.

In the leadup to the last election, the Democrats scored higher than the Republicans on the economy why?

Hat tip: Lisa Graas at Why Mommy is a Republican

This Costly Mortgage Mess

There are many questions being asked about the mortgage crisis and the $700 billion taxpayer bailout of mortgage debt from private firms. And there are not many answers being given. But there are a few things we know for sure. First, if history has taught us anything, we know that a successful bailout is always more than the initial estimate. It was so in the the S&L crisis and it will be for this one, too. Expect it to be well over a trillion dollars. I believe many people sense this, and that's why only 28% approve a federal bailout.

Second, the liberals are not THAT upset about this. Many of them see it as something to blame on Republicans, which could lead to a sweeping Democrat victory this November. After all, the Republicans have been in power for most of the last 8 years. Never mind that Democrat President Bill Clinton signed into law the repealing of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999, which had been in force since the Great Depression, and thus making it possible for banks to own investment firms capable of dragging banks down with them. Never mind it passed the Senate 98-0 with Harry Reid and Joe Biden both voting in favor of the repeal. These socialists and their MSM allies, may of whom adore Castro, see this as an opportunity to completely regain power and kill capitalism once and for all.

Third, capitalism will never completely die. And it may not even be down for the count here, even if the bailout fails. It will merely lie on the ground for a bit, pick itself up and shake the dust off. Things might not be so prosperous for a time, but capitalism will prevail. It's only natural. Communism was proven a failure in the 1980's. And now the only thing the liberals have left to offer are socialist economies in Democratic states.

Whether or not the bailout is a good idea is something I have trouble seeing, what with so may good and bad things that may result. It may be the only way out of a much larger and deeper pit, or we might be selling out our nation's very soul. Here are a couple of links to play with: click HERE for pro and HERE for con.

Personally I don't agree with a whole lot of regulations slowing down economic growth. But I do believe in oversight. And there was none here. Or if there was any, whatever was viewed was ignored. It appears as though both the borrowers and lenders were crossing their fingers on interest rates and gambling with their (and our) financial futures.

Obviously we cannot have a total meltdown of endless consumer foreclosures and bank failures. But letting stupid consumers or lenders totally off the hook is completely unacceptable. Make the consumers who signed the dotted line pay dearly by stretching out their payments over a much longer period, like 40 to 45 years so they can keep their low monthly payments and their precious homes. And put the predatory lenders in jail. Let them pay through the nose to the government who generously bailed them out. Without this there is no credibility in government, and there will likely be a huge tax-payer revolt. Enough said.