BOTH TEAMS HAVE THE SAME UNIFORMS

Oh, wait , I was wrong one team has different color socks..Kinda like our two major political parties..

Both are spreading the same bullshit,, it's austerity were headed for gang, and they are going to start with Social Security , Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, welfare and student loans..

With Social Security they are talking about raising the retirement age and changing the formula who how much you get..Last time they changed the formula it cost long term drawers a 50% reduction in benefits.

Raising the age, sure we have 22% unemployment now, shall we shoot for 25%?

Medicare and Medicaid cuts, most doctors won't take Medicaid now, so that's the same as cutting payments to the emergency rooms , which means there goes your insurance premiums , up some more..

Cutting Medicaid , todays rates for doctor fees are already ridiculous .  Where a doctor might bill $50 , Medicare pays $48, Medical $18 , and county health programs $12.  Sounds like a great way to fix a system already so fucked up nobody will take the clients..

So down the Austerity Hole we will go...

OH WILL IT NEVER END

JC Penny is fixing to eliminate all check out clerks by 2014.  They think this is going to save their asses.. They had better think again.. No more JC Penny in this house.. Hell I already have done enough damage by abusing my Amazon.com account..

Big chain stores have been on the path of self destruction starting way back in the late 60's when for instance Sears narrowed it's product lines to high end and medium end.. no more reasonably priced lines carried any more..then later on they started selling all appliance lines instead of their reliable ole Kenmore lines.. They had like something like 80% or the washer dryer lines at the time and now they are on the verge of going bust too.

It really bothers me when me and Mish Shedlock are on the same page, damn scary stuff..

Bad enough use Amazon for a lot of my purchases, but it certaintly isn't a clerks fault that I do.. In fact where possible I frequent stores that have good ole style clerks that know their product lines... Time's they are a changing, doesn't mean I have to like it.

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HOW LONG WILL THEY STAY

India just had a massive grid outage blacking out over 300 million people.. Just how long will our industries that split to India going to stay with an unreliable grid?

I've talked about this many times in the last couple of years that countries like India, China have had their day in the sun because of deficiencies in their industrial resources like power , water and raw materials...

Makes you kinda wonder (shit I already knew) our hot shots of industry were so short sighted they might have never thought about any of this.. I know the planned to move on to greener pastures but the pigs already ate all that up.. Tough shit big boys come on back to the country of renewed Union activity where you are going to have to pay big time for the screwing you gave us.. Welcome aboard, pay up you bastards...Oh you will look really good in our striped suits(  a little broader stripes ) than your use too.. Or perhaps a nice pink or maybe red jump suit..

PUTIN-STOP READING MY BLOG

In a post the other day I was commenting on our black brushing people and countries by painting their leaders as cruel and inhuman .So that we buy things like putting a missile shield up around Russia.

I gave my opinion that if I were Putin I would build a new fleet of missile subs.. And SOB read this..and NO I am not a soviet spy.. Just an ex sailor using logical thinking of what I would do to protect my nation if I were Putin.  Sorry to spoil your plans DC , the Russians are a lot of things but they are not stupid...If your looking for stupid (  just saying)!!

WINNING THE WATER COOLER WARS-AN IMPOSSIBLE DREAM

We have all been there , most likely more than once.. For me it's been damn near an everyday event... I'm 75 and I don't think I have ever won one.. Oh maybe I made them stop and think or at best made them hide their bullshit statements but almost never have said ,,Geez I was wrong.

Listening to Mike Papantonio subbing for Ed Shultz on Friday he said "It is a waste of time to fight the Water Cooler Wars day after day " because you never change antibody's mind on their preconceived notions of current affairs..

For instance you can say "Did you agree on the invasion of Iraq"  answer NO

Do you think the deregulation of markets was a good for the country"  answer NO

Do you think gay marriage destroys traditional marriage.. answer NO

Do you think that gays should serve openly in the military ..answer NO

Do you think Trickle down economics has been good for the country...answer NO

At the end of your own personal list of questions that you get NO answers to then you get to ask "THEN WHY ARE YOU A REPUBLICAN"? ANSWER BECAUSE I AM..

You have just wasted part of your day, pissed your boss off because you spent an hour at the water cooler, and the only satisfaction at the end of the battle you get to think . WHAT A DUMB FUCK THEY ARE.. and that cost you an hour of your life.??  Smart bastard , aren't you??

THE BIG PICTURE IN CHARTS

62 years of economic data in chart form showing % change year to year.  It's always a ball buster to put info into long term chart format using the same format. It gives you a clear picture of where we have been and of course you get to guess where we are going..

I suppose you could interpret some of this data to indicate that we are in some kind of recovery you probably are not right.. While some data is trending upwards it's a long way from hell to heaven .

Given that unemployment (the real one 22%) has been realitivity unchanged in years you may have to look at other reasons the charts might be a little skewed (not on purpose) just that you use certain inputs to your formulas and they can give you a false picture.

Anyway take a look , tis an interesting array of charts (you have to be a chart freak to enjoy ) perhaps, in that case I plead guilty.

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A NOVEL SOLUTION TO THE HOUSING PROBLEM

Matt Tabbi explains a wild eyed plan to give people in foreclosure a way to save their home and the neat part is to screw the banks holding the mortgage .

Often a hated term "Imminent Domain" in this case works for the people.. A County seizes the property threw Imminent Domain and then pays (a standard) current market value to the banks for the property . The county can then offer the current or previous homeowner the opportunity to buy the property at current market value..The county would arrange financing for the owner.

Speaking of financing Pension Funds which have tons of money looking for decent returns could be a source for the money to finance the above programs.  That would return a better than they are getting right now

The fact that until the home bubble is fixed there won't be much recovery.