I’ll admit when I heard the total amount of the new budget plan, my heart skipped a beat. My first reaction was what the he**?!? Then I calmed down. I remember the President saying his new budget would include all the expenditures that had never been included in the budget, like the [...]
Entries from February 2009
February 25, 2009
I’ve never cried before….
For fifty years I’ve watched Presidents give State of the Union Addresses. Never before have I been moved to tears as I was tonight. Never before have I been more proud of my country as I was listening to President Obama tonight.
As the 62 year old daughter of a career Air [...]
February 20, 2009
Energy Secretary Dr. Steven Chu discusses energy policies and plans
Noted professor, noble prize winner, and newly appointed Energy Secretary Dr. Steven Chu spoke today to at the National Electricity Delivery Forum. As the keynote speaker, he discussed the future of energy creation and energy policy in the near and long term future.
While Dr. Chu received no note in the public domain [...]
February 20, 2009
Stimulus breakdown, state by state.
CSPAN has provided a breakdown of the stimulus bill to each state. They’ve also drilled down in the plan to levels such as school districts.
The analysis can be viewed here.
February 20, 2009
Race in the headlines again.
The new AG may have used the wrong word – “cowards” – to describe Americans when it comes to discussing race problems in America. But he wasn’t wrong in bringing the subject up for debate.
Race is still a problem in this country. Just witness the recent NY Post cartoon which garnered so much [...]
February 20, 2009
I’m losing count…
of the billions of dollars lost by self-centered, morally-deficient, greedy investment bankers during this financial meltdown.
To my knowledge no one has added up the total cost to date that investors had stolen by the likes of Stanford and Madoff. I suspect it’s close to 100 Billion dollars already.
So, why haven’t [...]
February 20, 2009
Five…count ‘em…5 GOP governors say they will refuse Stim funds
Now, whether they will or not is another matter. They may be just playing to the base.
However, if the four southern and the Alaskan governors refuse the funds, that’s fine with me. I even go so far as to hope their legislatures refuse to overturn their decision. It means less outlay – or [...]
February 18, 2009
Three TV programs worth watching
Most of TV is a vast wasteland. Not at all the educational tool that Edward R. Murrow envisioned. However, some programs come along that do teach us. The following are three such programs.
1) PBS’s Frontline program: Meltdown
2) CNBC’s House of Cards
3) CSPAN’s Davos: Advise to President Obama [...]
February 18, 2009
CA State Republican opposition to budget could presage huge Democratic win in next election.
California purportedly is the world’s 8th largest economy…and it’s going bust. As a Californian, I’m waiting to see what happens when CA runs out of money because Republican State Senators refuse to sign onto a budget deal that raises some taxes.
I wonder how Californians will like having State offices shut down, schools [...]
February 14, 2009
Stimulus or no – Japan’s “Lost Decade”
On Wednesday, NPR aired a report on the difference between Japan’s “Lost Decade” and the American fiscal crisis now.
What struck me as most significant was that Japan waited YEARS before the government took action to resolve their problem. That waiting nearly destroyed the Japanese economy. Our not waiting years may pull the world’s largest economy [...]
