Bury Your Heads (Economics 101)

Image via WikipediaIf you listen to the Republican message in this election year carefully, it seems to be, bury your head and do nothing. This is a very interesting proposal. After 8 years of George W. Bush's fantasy policies and life of denial, the Republicans want to try that policy again. It seems they think that Bernie Madoff wasn't such a bad investor after all. Why not leave the Wall street Banks and Money Advisers go back to business in the Bush years?
     On Afghanistan, they propose widening the war. Isn't that a good idea. Send 800,000 more troops to Afghanistan and win. Of course, there is no real government in Afghanistan and the country is run by drug lords outside Kabul, but those are minor details. Just throw money at the problem. Bush did that in Iraq and borrowed from the Chinese to pay for it. It didn't matter that the Chinese were financing the enemy by sending our money to Iran to buy weapons. This was a good policy and we should follow it in Afghanistan.
     Tax cuts to millionaires is also a great idea. Never mind that 9.5 million people have no income, let's make sure the rich can buy more gold. Why should they have to hide their income in Switzerland or the Caymans. Those poor people might have to cut back on their staffs in the French Riviera or the illegal aliens that garden and take care of their kids. Which, by the way, is the reason Republicans oppose immigration reform. All those millionaires would have to pay minimum wage. God forbid that.
     The government is spending too much money is the battle cry. OK during the Bush years, the Republicans threw money away faster than the twin towers fell. Didn't that happen when Bush was president. Oh well no matter.. Bush inherited a balanced budget from Clinton and in eight years he and the Republican Congress nuked it out of existence. Should we try that policy again? Are you willing to go for a one trillion dollar deficit every 6 months? Think back folks.
     Now even the Republicans hate the Republicans. All those Tea Party people are Republicans and conservatives.
     By all means vote Republican or don't vote all. Things can't get any worse. Right? Just because the Stock Market dropped to 8000 points by the time the Republicans were through last time doesn't mean it will happen again. Besides you own gold. Don't you. Oh well tough if you don't. Retire to the projects.
     Yes. I think doing nothing is a great strategy. You are keeping all those people in the unemployment offices employed. How is your city doing financially. We had one just close right up. Who's taxes are going to pay for those problems? Are you a millionaire who can afford to move to where the money is? All you need to do is sell that house and buy a new one. Oh I forgot you can't. The housing market dropped 27 percent last month.
     Well have nice life.

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Poison From China:

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Made in China is everywhere in the U.S. and it is threatening to kill our children. The Chinese are intent on selling and producing products with hazardous materials in them, like Cadmium. It is naive to believe that any agency in the governemnt is protecting us or our children. China ships millions of tons of products to this country every day. There simply aren't enough people to check it all. The most alarming part is that the initial shipments of items may not be contaminated, but once those have been checked The Chinese deliberately start to ship toxin laiden products.
The U.S. government has been blackmailed by China to allow their goods to flow freely into the country, because our debt to China is huge and it keeps growing. China has no product safety standards. They have billions of people and they do not value human life at all. Every time you buy a product made in china that is for human consuption or that holds food or drink, you are playing Russian roulette.
There is a high probability that the products you are buying from China have not been checked in any way. If you think that buying name brand items is going to protect you think again. These companies moved production to China and they have almost non-existant quality control personnel to assure that their products are safe. The bottom line is the bottom line. The cheaper they can produce products the more elated they are, because their profits sky rocket. CEO's get paid to make sure that profits rise. These companies have no desire to know if the products they are selling are safe. There has never been a criminal case against these companies for product liability, which has resulted in prison terms to executives of the companies. They are simply above the law. Foreign CEO's are even safer than those based here. And by the way, If you think that the threat of lawsuits disturbs them you are dillusional. From start to finish most product liability lawsuits don't reach court until after the majority of people in the companies have died.
The law protects executives in a corporation from personal liability financially, so they don't lose any sleep over the death a a person or even thousands. More over, under the law people have a set value. As a matter of fact body parts have an accepted value. Insurance companies have been responsible for that. If you think your child is worth millions you are misinformed. Children actually have the lowest monetary value in court. They are seen as having no value to society or to the family unit. They don't earn money and there is no way to prove what their net worth would be if they had lived. Their deaths result in the lowest court awards.
The reality is that if you don't wake up and check the products that come into your house, you are likely to suffer an accident or exposure to hazardess materials. In the realm of product liability there isn't a problem until people can prove that a product harmed them. Usually this takes a number of deaths. How many depends on the size of the corporation. This being the case the Chinese are free to cause the deaths of as many Americans as they please, until it can be proved that their products are hazardous. By the way, good luck suing China for the death of your family member. Their government doesn't even recognize such cases.

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Volvo, Cadium Cars

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China has annouced plans to buy Volvo. Can the country that brought us lead filled toys and cadium jewelry be trusted to build a safe car? I wonder what the brakes will be like on them. The U.S. Government continues to allow China to poison us. Now they will have a liscense to kill everyone on U.S. highways. Can you imagine going 65 mph and having a car bumper flying at you. It could happen. The Chinese have decided that if they can't kill us in a war they will try to do it with our products. We all know that made in China should be accomanied by a skull and cross bones.
The U.S. government has wimped out over and over when it comes to protecting us. They only act when watch dog groups or someone else manages to penetrate the secret records of companies. They want money and they are willing to kill people to get it. I don't know who they think will be left to buy their products. Well, yes I do the Chinese people. There are so many of them that no one will miss a few million.

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