Posted on 2009 03, 27 by duo
Think speaking out can’t make a difference? Take a lesson from this:
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Excuse me now as I have to wipe the tears from my eyes, from laughing so hard. I just got through reading a couple a different blogs, about one wee little oh truck driver. I will not name the driver, but you will know who it is.
From reading one of the blogs, all I could get from it was….nothing. It was just a rant about this driver and how they are stirring up “trouble” in the trucking world. By being out spoken on several “Real issues” that need to be addressed, and because this blogger couldn’t get anything done about it 20 years ago then we should all leave well enough alone.
They have been driving for 30+ years, and they know how to plan their routes. What do you want, a cookie? I even read they are doing the most dangerous job now there is in trucking, I had to laugh on this one. Now, they have the following of several of their “tweety” friends joining in, on the bashing of this one wee little ole truck driver.
I also just read another blog about this wee little ole truck driver. From a person who has been in the business for a whole 2 or 3 years..not sure as it was hard to read and understand. Something about how this wee little ole truck driver was stepping on toes, because they were good with words. Getting the media involved and so on. How else is “John Q” public suppose to become aware of the real problems that have been going on for a long time, and need to be addressed.
I can’t believe that this wee little ole truck driver has caused such a stench in the trucking world. For what? Being out spoken, and getting the attention needed drawn to problems that veteran drivers couldn’t get?
I’m not going to draw this post out to long here but I am gonna touch on a couple of important issues.
The “Parking Problem” is not only in VA. but it is everywhere. VA is just on the hotseat now, because they want to shut down 25 or so rest areas that are needed for drivers who need to stop and rest. But, the problem exist everywhere.
HazMat, loads should be pulled by experienced drivers. Experienced in pulling Hazardous chemicals. No, I dont think a student right out of school should go to a place that hauls hazmat and apply, even though they have their Hazmat endorsement. I feel they should have adequate training before hauling it.
Ok, enough said about this wee little ole truck driver. Why don’t you guys quit your bitching, and join.
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By Dr. Benevolence
It is not without consequence that the Fed is creating massive amounts of money for the U.S. Treasury to leverage mega-investors and hedge funds back into financial markets on the long side. Many market observers claim Geithner’s plan will work. The question should be: ‘Work to what ends?’
There is an increasing possibility — evident in various ways during the last couple weeks — that the Geithner plan may inflate U.S. equity values back into a range that would put the DJIA around 10,000 within 18 months, perhaps much sooner. (While 10,000 is not 14,000, it would constitute something close to a 50% retracement.) If this occurs, the move will be billed incorrectly as a new bull market — as though the problems that created the bear market of 2008-2009 were undergoing sufficient repairs.
Gary’s Note: The U.S. is sliding toward full-scale socialism and hyperinflation so Don Stott finds it absurd that people still favor stocks to gold and silver. Send your questions and comments togary@whiskeyandgunpowder.com.
Whiskey & Gunpowder
By Don Stott
March 26, 2009
ColoradoGold.com
Absurdities
It really isn’t difficult to find things to write about! Especially when the economics of a once great nation have been emaciated, plundered, and bankrupted. Do you realize that every man, woman, and child in America, as of today, has as a personal part of the national debt close to $117,000? Do you realize that the Obama-sponsored D.C. Gang, has made every sorry, reckless, stupid bank whole — with your grandchildren’s money? No matter how dumb their loans were, no matter how idiotic Freddie and Fanny are, and no matter how ludicrous AIG’s well paid stooges are, they will be made whole, thanks to the forthcoming hyperinflation.
Posted on 2009 03, 26 by duo
With almost no public attention, both chambers of Congress in the past week advanced an alarming expansion of the Americorps national service plan, with the number of federally funded community service job increasing from 75,000 to 250,000 at a cost of $5.7 billion. Lurking behind the feel-good rhetoric spouted by the measure’s advocates is a bill that on closer inspection reveals multiple provisions that together create a strong odor of creepy authoritarianism. The House passed the measure overwhelmingly, while only 14 senators had the sense and courage to vote against it on a key procedural motion. Every legislator who either voted for this bill or didn’t vote at all has some serious explaining to do.
Last summer, then-candidate Barack Obama threw civil liberties to the wind when he proposed “a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the regular military. The expanded Americorps is not quite so disturbing, but a number of provisions in the bill raise serious concerns.
Continue reading this article at www.washingtonexaminer.com
Posted on 2009 03, 25 by duo
By Wayne Kulick
I just watched a great investigative piece on the subprime mortgage crisis on Dateline last night. Thinking more about this, I decided to look a little deeper into the origins of our current economic crises.
A key bill involved in this mess is the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) originally passed in 1977 and tweaked many times depending on which way the political wind was blowing. It was originally intended to address the deteriorating conditions of American cities—particularly lower-income and minority neighborhoods, essentially through lending of funds. CRA was amended many times to strengthen it which in essence put pressure on lenders to make risky loans to high risk recipients. This “strengthening” by lawmakers was the primary driver to the subprime mortgage crisis. The lending institutions were doing exactly what they were being forced to do. You get what you measure. If you incentivize companies to provide mortgages to low-income families, that’s what you’re going to get.
Posted on 2009 03, 25 by duo
By Bruce McQuain
www.qando.net
Here’s an item which, in the midst of the financial crisis, will probably be overlooked and underreported. However, it has the potential to destroy any economic recovery should we ever get one rolling.
The Environmental Protection Agency sent a proposal to the White House on Friday finding that global warming is endangering the public’s health and welfare, according to several sources, a move that could have far-reaching implications for the nation’s economy and environment.
The proposal — which comes in response to a 2007 Supreme Court decision ordering EPA to consider whether carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases should be regulated under the Clean Air Act — could lay the groundwork for nationwide measures to limit such emissions. It reverses one of the Bush administration’s landmark environmental decisions: In July 2008 then-EPA administrator Stephen Johnson rejected his scientific and technical staff’s recommendation and announced the agency would seek months of further public comment on the threat posed by global warming pollution.
“This is historic news,” said Frank O’Donnell, who heads the public watchdog group Clean Air Watch. “It will set the stage for the first-ever national limits on global warming pollution. And it is likely to help light a fire under Congress to get moving.”
Actually I prefer to think of it as the excuse the Democratic Congress has been looking for to implement cap-and-trade. “The Court has required the EPA to consider whether CO2 is a pollutant and the EPA has so declared – our hands are tied!” And in such a convenient way. Al Gore thanks you.
Posted on 2009 03, 25 by duo
By George F. Will
With the braying of 328 yahoos — members of the House of Representatives who voted for retroactive and punitive use of the tax code to confiscate the legal earnings of a small, unpopular group — still reverberating, the Obama administration yesterday invited private-sector investors to become business partners with the capricious and increasingly anti-constitutional government. This latest plan to unfreeze the financial system came almost half a year after Congress shoveled $700 billion into the Troubled Assets Relief Program, $325 billion of which has been spent without purchasing any toxic assets.
