We need jobs.  All the fiscal cliff rhetoric has produced not a single job.  All they are doing is arguing over the insufficent funds in the Treasury and how to possibly re-distribute them.  Without increasing revenue in a meaningful way overspending will increase.    Jobs should increase right now at a rate of , sa...more

Obama approved a 6% pay increase to the 500 White House staff (includes Carney) paid with another IOU to China hoping those earning over $250K will be pleased to pay for it.  Come on people, he is our President, we have to back him up on this!

A million more jobs lost is only 40% of the alottment of jobs to be lost by Obama this year.  Obama loses jobs to the rolls of the "unemployed" and/or "under-employed" at a rate of 2.5 million jobs per year.    I don't think the Nation as a whole will notice much.

I haven't seen the movie but am curious.  Maybe I'll go see it.  However  you guys should keep in mind the axiom, "don't believe anything you read and half of what you see and you'll be alright".  Was it Mark Twain that said it?  Can't remember for sure.  Be careful not to let a movie maker mess with you.  Think for yo...more

Use the bird as a back scratcher.  Hold it by the feet in one hand, and scratch with the beak.  Keep your other hand on your heart of course.

About credit union checking accounts:  Consider late fees and overdraft fees of $10, instead of the $39 fees you're paying right now in your Bank of America account.  Consider the fact that a civil phone call to a real person can get even the $10 late fee waived.  Try to get Bank of America to do that.

When depositors gang up, then their little "bits" become collectively significant.   If you are getting the run-around to refinance at your big bank, gang up with your friends and collectively remove all of your savings where they lay and move them to a small bank willing to do business.   This occurred in Oreg...more

Buffet's wrong, and amazingly today.  Consumer confidence has slipped again, consumer income is lower, consumers are using savings for purchase of food and gasoline in September, all changes for the worse reported today.  It is reported this recession will last a couple of years.

Not only was the statue outsourced to China, the bill for the thing is reportedly $120 million dollars.     The Chinese sculptor preferred Chinese rock because, he said, 'if at a certain time of day near dusk if you squint your eyes, the shade of white turns a tan color sort of like what people have described Mart...more