put on your seatbelts...

"these are difficult times.." is the oft-repeated sentence from the political survivors of the 2008 season of "The Big White House". With the last two remaining contestants, what remains is how does the jury (the people) vote. The fact that we cannot state it clearly still is a ringing endorsement of the jury!

In the meantime, lets see what's been going on lately .. the $700 billion bailout (which has ballooned to an official $840 billion, and unofficially is thought to go over a trillion) of the banking industry, bailout of the 3 automakers, who have been unable to sell their giant SUVs and other gas-guzzlers, because of the price of gas. Of course, you recall that in the beginning of 2001, Cheney helped introduce a measure where if you were to buy a heavy vehicle (a big SUV, a hummer, big pick-up truck etc- essentially Bush-Cheney voters.) you could essentially take a giant tax deduction. This was done to encourage the consumption of these gas-drinkers, and now treasury is being raided to rescue these irresponsible car makers that perpetuated the obscenity in the first place. $25 billion was the amount granted to them just earlier this month.

On a personal note, a lot of my friends are losing jobs. They have no idea where they are going next. Guys who used to make nearly $200,000 are looking for jobs that pay $85,000... or less.

you bet, " these are difficult times.." and what are you going to do about it?