government efforts

The $700bn bail-out was signed into law, October 3. Even with the news of the bail-out, stocks kept falling. Monday stocks kept falling, banks world-wide were on the brink of failing, and now the Federal Reserve is talking about EXPANDING the $700bn bailout.

But he thinks we should do it anyway:

Lordy. I'm reminded of when Big Tobacco tried to soothe those of us who'd realized - while laying in our Iron Lungs - that they'd been lying to us for some five decades or so.

Same [bleep], different company....

One thing I think we can all agree on -- government efforts to help New Orleans in the post-Katrina recovery have resulted in minimal success.

Startup New Orleans is, instead, looking to free enterprise to rebuild the city one entrepreneur at a time.

I went to bed at my usual time and somehow slept through my alarm. I woke up to NPR telling me that the feds are talking about raising the gas tax 40 cents a gallon. I don’t know how it is where you are, but that’ll raise gas around here to almost four dollars a gallon. This, they claim, will encourage people to use public transportation and also raise money for our crumbling bridges.

I, myself, like to drive. I find it soothing and adventurous. Driving takes y