"Mr Opus McDopus--Mark H. Bowen" wrote in message
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On Nov 9, 4:36 pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:

No, my fear is real. The same doofus's that got us into the mess are
still
in charge. The Congress is probably even going to be worse now as they
have
lost any semblances of checks now, and Pelosi / Reid are in charge. The
Congress is the one who writes all spending bills. The President can
request a spending bill, but is only the Congress who can pass that bill.
And years ago, after Nixon, they got a court ruling that the Executive
Branch HAS to spend the money that they said was ok to spend. Was a
traditional check on overspending. And Republican or Democrat Congress
for
at least 14 years has really spent. Only thing during Clinton years was
the
huge amount of Stock Option money that came in and masked the
overspending.
I fear that just like Roosevelt prolonged the depression (according to a
lot
of leading economists) that the Congress will prolong or increase the
severity of the recession. Most of the US is overpaid. But inflation has
robbed a lot of the purchasing power of those high salaries. And priced
us
out of the world market manufacturing cost wise. In the 1960's we
probably
made 3x what a 2nd world country made salary wise. Probably 8-10x now. In
the 1990's the company I worked (disk drives) for had a Head Stack
Assembly
plant in Penang. The bundled cost was about $3.50 / hour. Most of the
work
was done by robots, but to do the same assembly here was at least $35 an
hour bundled labor costs. No way could the company be competitive if the
drives were assembled here in the states. I think my fear is real. One
daughters employer is laying off and cutting salaries of the remaining
people. They work with housing builders, and no housing being built. Same
Doofus's that are supposedly going to get us out of this mess, are the
same
ones who did not control and actually encouraged loans to people who
could
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Bill, your problem is that you are a fella who pours gasoline into a
styrafoam cup and then complains that not only can't you fill the cup
half-full, but the bottom has fallen out of the cup and you are wasting
gas trying to fill the cup halfway.

Find yourself a good drug dealer, purchase some extacsy and chill the ****
out!

Op --should I ever become as despondent.as Sweet 'ol Bill (SOB), someone
please offer me some extacsy--



Nope, you appear to be the new generation that figures drugs are the answer.
Remember these people who are in control of our destiny are the same ones
who can not realize the war on drugs is lost as it is being currently
fought.