Overdosing the Economy. The consequences.

Image via WikipediaThe government is overdosing the economy with cash. Five trillion dollars so far. This may be good news to Wall Street, but it is a massive problem for Main Street America.
Wall Street loves money. They are used to huge amounts, but as good as it makes Wall Street feel. It is a massive problem for you and I. Why?
When 5 trillion dollars hits the economy it will be like a massive overdose of heroine and the economy will be DOA. The problem is that the more money the Fed infuses into the economy, the more likely it is that massive inflation will result. Interest rates and prices could sky rocket by 100% resulting in less buying power. In an economy that depends on people buying, this would be a massive problem of unprecedented levels.
Imagine that a new 19 inch tv could cost 2000 dollars and the grocery bill is a thousand a week, but your making half as much in real consumption ability. Now you are making money but it's worthless. You need a wheel barrow to buy a candy bar.
This is what happens when there is way too much money in circulation. At the moment we are almost there. Banks will have finished blackmailing the U.S. Government and start lending. The money will hit the economy and things will be good for a year maybe two, but then there will be too much money in the economy and the price of things will start to spike. When they do go up it will be a run away train and the government will be forced to take money out of circulation by the trillions. When this happens expect an even more staggering economic crisis than any economist can ever imagine. Not only will the bottom fall out but the handle will come off. People won't be unemployed. They will be asking what a job is, because there won't be any in this country.
The bottomline is that you can all dillude yourselves that Obama has a magic wand, but reality is going to come to roost real fast.

Erin Maxwell Case. The real Deal.

Image via WikipediaFirst of all let me explain that Erin Maxwell was a young girl who died by hanging in her room, in a house that had the filthiest conditions imaginable. The conditions she lived in were reported several times to DSS, but they failed to act. People have been told that her case is unique and that DSS did all that they could under NYS (New York State) law. The real story is that DSS has very wide powers under the law and is required to investigate a report of neglect or abuse involving a child on each occasion that a report is made.
The fact is that someone is lying in this case and some people may be guilty of violating NYS law. The Law says that a school and every employee in it must report any suspicion of child neglect or abuse to the school social worker and that the social worker must investigate and determine whether the claim has merit. If the claim has merit the school social worker must inform dss or the authorities.
In Erin's case the teacher's were providing Erin with clean clothes when she arrived at school because her clothes smelled of urine. She was seen eating out of trash cans also and there were probably other signs of neglect. This would have to be reported under the law on every occasion that it occurred and it would have to be documented by the school in writing. So far there is no record of this being done and if it was done and reported to DSS in Oswego County the County would have to investigate the claims thoroughly after each incident.
Erin's case with DSS in Oswego county had been closed and no one was investigating her living conditions. Point blank, someone here either lied or violated New York State Law, because DSS has stated that they had no reports about Erin in the year before her death. In any case people who knew Erin from outside the school have said that they reported her situation to DSS. The bottom line is that under the law DSS was obligated to investigate under NYS law if anything was reported by the school or people who had knowledge of Erin.
A S>U> professor has weighed in and said that Erin's case is out of the ordinary. An aberration in the system. It is true that Erin's living conditions were an isolated case, becasuse of the severity, but I know that children are regularly kept in their homes in Onondaga County when their living conditions are not appropriate. I worked for the City school district for many years and know that there were many occasions where reports were made to the social worker and DSS. The bottom line is that children are living in unacceptable conditions right now and, because these cases aren't allowed to be made public children suffer every day.
This is the states dirty little secret and it will never be addressed until it is brought out into the open. DSS should not be allowed to monitor itself. Everycase should be reviewed by an independent source to determine if appropriate action has been taken.
As for Erin's death, their is a definite possibility that she killed herself, because she was trapped in the living conditions she was exposed to and locked in her room from the outside on a regular basis. I have been involved with children who have tried to kill themselves as young as 9 years old and it is not as rare as some may think. Erin must have known that many people knew about her living conditions and she also must have known that no one was helping to change them. Imagine being locked in a room in a house filled with animal feces from wall to wall. A house where there were hundreds of cats and animals routinely died. Imagine that some of those animal were in the freezer. Is it hard to imagine that someone caught in this situation might consider suicide. Imagine how hopeless she must have been. I think that suicide is not a factor that can be ignored in this case. My belief is that the state police did not want the attention that her suicide would bring, so they charged her brother on very little or no evidence at all. No DNA or anything else that would connect him to her death, except that he was in the house when it occurred.
As to the premise that people who are suicidal speak about it, this is a total misconception. The majority of suicides are unexpected and come with no signs at all that the person was going to kill themselves. I know several people who killed themselves and it always came as a surprise. Most people who really want to die don't advertise, because they don't want to be stopped. This is a fact that most psychiatrist can tell you.

Loan Sharking 101, The law they don't mention.

Image via WikipediaHi Kiddies: Todays lesson is on loan sharking. Jeeze, what's that! Loan sharking is taking advantage of someone's poor financial situation to charge them a ton of interest. In most states loan sharking is illegal, but it seems that states have conveniently forgotten this law. Not only have the states conveniently forgotten this law, but Congress seems to condone loan sharking. That is why your bank can suddenly jack your interest rates sky high. Under many state's loan sharking laws the banks are engaged in illegal activities. I would also like to point out that just, because it happens a lot, it doesn't make it legal.
Organized crime used loan sharking to rake in loads of cash and if you didn't pay, they broke your legs. The banks don't break your legs. They threaten you with lowering your credit score and destroying your life.
Congress and the state legisltors of every state have been paid off with donations from the banking lobby. They have been allowed to run roough shod over the american people. Regulation is a bad word in the republican vocabulary and the Democrats are down on there knees in front of the bankers and they aren't shining their shoes. Only banks can wield enough power to make the government bail them out to the tune of 2 trillion 700 billion dollars. According to The Bloomberg Report. The government have lent banks 2 trillion dollars that they have not disclosed. The Fed has refused to saay which banks recieved the loans or what collateral they put up.
The bottom line is that the government will hand over truck loads of cash to the banking industry to gain their cooperation, rather than passing a law. If the government is going to buy credit card debt, then people should get lower interest rates. After all they are lending us our money. The banks are stealing from people and getting paid by the governmentt to do it.
It is time to write your attorney generals people and tell them to enforce the loan sharking laws. Ild say if everyone calls something will happen. Pass this blog to everyone you know and let them know what the government is doing.

Now The Rubber Hits The Road

Image via WikipediaWell by now you know that Obama is President. It's a historic day and a historic change in America, but this is where the rubber hits the road. Obama has a mandate and now the Democrats will have to put up or shut up. There is no more finger pointing or blaming that can be done. They have to deliver. It's all on them now.
If you don't get what Obama promised, the blame lies with him and The Democrats, period. They've talked the talk. Now they have to walk the walk. My mother always said if it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it's a duck. Well, Obama did his quacking, walking, and appeared to be the agent of a new era in The United States, so he better get busy. He has no excuse not to do what he said. If the plane crashes now, it's the pilot that caused it.
We have no time to wait people. Things have be different on day one. They have to improve steadily. We all know what's at stake here. The future of our kids rides on it and our grand kids too.
Obama's election is not the end of something. It's the beginning of something. Let's all remember this. We've cut our politicians to much slack for too long. It's time they took responsibility and time to hold the m responsible. The country sent that message to The Republicans. Now it has to hold The Democrats to that standard. No more Lobbyists. No more pay offs. No more Washing ton old boy network. My mother always said three strikes and your out. The Democrats have one strike already from their lack of action last term. There are no do overs. They are all grown ups. They should be held accountable like you and I. If you don't work your fired. If you can't do the job you out. That's the real world. The world we live in every day. We don't have the luxury of saying present and frittering the day away. Americans work and so should our government or out they go.
Sometimes you have to try on a few pairs of shoes before you find some that fit. Americans should be prepared to do that with it's politicians too.

Demcrats agree not to Prosecute Bush?

Image via WikipediaThe Hidden News is looking for comfirmation of a story it is about to run concerning a deal between Democrats and Republicans not to investigate Karl Rove or any members of The Bush administrationfor crimes committed during the Bush years. We need this comfirmation to validate information from a secret source. The story alleges that a deal has been cut at the highest levels of both parties to allow any Crimes committed by the Bush administration to go uninvestigated. This would of course have to be approved by the next president. The source states that in return Republican's will cooperate with The next administration and The Democrtas in Congress. At the moment the Hidden News is not ready to confirm the legitimacy of the information. Which, mentions the possibility of pardons being granted. Please help The hidden News Confirm or assuade this information. Wea are especially interested in a response from Obama and Mc Cain about this issue.

The Crap Shoot With Kids

Image via WikipediaI know this is not political on the surface, but it is an issue that many people care about.
The recent lunacy about the herpes virus vaccine leads me to write this from an objective point of view.
I am fairly conservative in my personal view of children and sexual activity. I really don't approve of teems having sex, but life and a daughter have taught me the folly of stupidity.
I taught my daughter conservative views on sex and marriage, which seemed to penetrate her brain to a great degree, but she became an unwed mother at 20. I love my grandson dearly and I didn't consider suggesting an abortion. She did not consider it either and thus my precious grandson was born when I was 45.
The pregnancy forced her to quit college after a year and a half, She lived with the father for two years and married him, but it has been a challenge for them and sadly it has affected my grandson negatively, but this is not the real point of today's blog.
The point of today's blog is that stupidity happens. We have all been stupid in our lives from time to time. Some people are so stupid they they deny they have done stupid things. I call these people idiots. Denying that you have done something stupid prevents you from learning and growing as a person. I have a particular pet peeve abut people who blame the devil for their stupidity, because these people seem to believe that they some how were tricked in to doing something stupid. The fact is you chose to do something stupid: no matter how it turns out. People do stupid things on a regular basis. We have seat belts and air bags in our cars to guard against accidents. Many accidents are a direct result of being stupid; on one or both of the drivers parts. Most people do not disable their airbags and rip out their seat belts to prevent their children from doing something stupid and crashing the car. They realize that doing that would not make their children less likely to do something stupid. They also realize that the consequence of using this as a way to prevent their child from having an accident might result in their death. What's my point?
My point is that when the subject becomes sex, many people use this method to keep their children from having sex. The odds of sex causing your child's death is high. Never mind right or wrong or the devil. People and especially kids do stupid things that have real life and death consequences. I know at this point you have gone into denial, because sex makes you turn into an idiot, but try to follow along. One shot can possibly prevent your child from getting or spreading cancer to other people. I assume that the shot would keep the boys from getting it. I could be wrong, but in any case, there is a good chance that it will keep your daughter alive throughout her life. Why on earth would you decide that cancer is a better outcome than life, You see the virus that we are talking about spreads faster than the flu and it kills women. It should be clear that there is a chance that, even barring a stupid action by your child, there is a good chance that someone else will catch this virus. The virus can't be killed people, so basically you are putting your daughter's safety in the hands of every other person and their good or bad choice (IE stupidity). It seems that you trust everyone else more about sex than you would with a car. Do you really want to watch you daughters be eaten alive by cancer? Is it, so important to you to avoid the subject of sex that you would live to watch them have their uteruses ripped out and toxic drugs pumped through them? Is it possible that death is your choice for your child over sex? I understand the fear, but the fact is that catching this virus at any age could girl your little girl/ Forget about sex. You can tell them it's a flu shot. but for your child's sake, you shouldn't deny anyone elses or your child to live cancer free.
This is my opinion of course and it's based on my morals. I don't want my child to get and spread a virus that can kill your child, because stupidity happens, and I don't want my child to die because of your stupidity. If one child dies because of your choice, then I think you're going to have a lot of explaining to do to God and I don't like your chances.