The old you cant time the market argument works on the theory that since it's impossible to catch an absolute top or bottom you shouldn't use common sense. You didn't have to catch the top to know stocks were going insane when dot coms with no product were valued higher than IBM. You didn't need to catch the top suspec...more

It could be worse.     "A Tennessee for-profit, online public school has come under fire this week after an internal email that appeared to be ordering teachers to delete their students' bad grades was leaked. The vice principal of Tennessee Virtual schools allegedly sent the email in December. The email instructed...more

"Any South or Central American immigrant could work circles around you and three of your favorite right-wing loudmouths combined."   I'm sure he works much harder than those working in the fields 12 hours or more a day.

Indeed.

Mortgage debt is considered better than others because it's the only kind that normally appreciates.   "The biggest thing is that now we're going to sign on the dotted line to support Afghanistan, WHY?  They didn't exactly welcome us to get the Taliban out, and aren't exactly nice to us now."   You do realize no on...more

Clinton balanced the budget. Republicans said they could in 10 years if you let them have another 500 billion a year tax cut for the wealthy and 200 billion a year for the military but couldn't explain how. Of course Bush promised to continue Clintons balanced budgets and to cut our debt in half in 4 years. Saying it d...more

The right called Clinton a war monger for firing some missiles at terrorists and do the same for Obama with his drones. Yet they seem to blank out when either Bush is mentioned. Cost of drones or missiles maybe 100K to 500K each. Cost of the 3 Bush wars 5 trillion.

When Reagan took office we were the worlds largest creditor nation. When he left office we were the worlds largest debtor nation. He said the massive debt added was his biggest regret. To bad he had those regrets after he left office and had no ability to correct it.

It's greedy, lazy Americans. Clearly if we were willing to work for 21cents an hours as they do in Bangledesh, allow them to pour raw sewage into rivers and not require them to use all them safety devices to save lives we'd still have jobs.