September 19 Weekly Wrapup
The week was fairly typical, extreme economic volatility, now centered in Europe but soon to rebound to america, administration lies and corruption exposed in the bankrupt Solyndra insider loan, class warfare used by Obama to save his failed administration through his proposed millionaire tax to fund a "jobs program" while everything proceeds along the same track it has been on for three years.
This coming week we should learn Bernanke's next QE plan to inflate the money supply and save the world. Of course, QE3 won't do more than kick the can down the road leading to the mother of all stimuli, the Election 2012 QE4!
Grandma and I took the grandsons to a 1757 re-enactment yesterday where we watched a French-Indian battle of the First World War, inspected smokey campsites and ate beans and cornbread under the trees. The sullen 40 year old visitors and children were a freak show of tattoos, rudeness and obesity. The mood was standoffish despite the sunshine and warm temperatures. Re-enactors and the crowd were just going through the motions.
Just going through the motions seems to be the mood of the country these days. Everyone seems to understand that we're stuck in what we're stuck in and there's no way out. Just show up and go through the motions. Pretend to be a worker, an official, a citizen, a parent; what else can one do? Such a dark mood for such a dark time.
When I ran into acquaintances, the conversation was always the same. You working? Still living in town? Family Ok? Then relief when you didn't tell them you were out of work, living in your car and lost a family member. No one talked about the big promotion, busy work schedule or the new house.
Fall has arrived early this year, with 40F nighttime temperatures, chilly rain and cloudy skies for the past couple of weeks. The moods have darkened with the weather here in middle america. People keep their heads down, don't spend money and go through the motions of life. A hard life without much hope that things will get better. Mostly hope that thing don't get worse.
This coming week we should learn Bernanke's next QE plan to inflate the money supply and save the world. Of course, QE3 won't do more than kick the can down the road leading to the mother of all stimuli, the Election 2012 QE4!
Grandma and I took the grandsons to a 1757 re-enactment yesterday where we watched a French-Indian battle of the First World War, inspected smokey campsites and ate beans and cornbread under the trees. The sullen 40 year old visitors and children were a freak show of tattoos, rudeness and obesity. The mood was standoffish despite the sunshine and warm temperatures. Re-enactors and the crowd were just going through the motions.
Just going through the motions seems to be the mood of the country these days. Everyone seems to understand that we're stuck in what we're stuck in and there's no way out. Just show up and go through the motions. Pretend to be a worker, an official, a citizen, a parent; what else can one do? Such a dark mood for such a dark time.
When I ran into acquaintances, the conversation was always the same. You working? Still living in town? Family Ok? Then relief when you didn't tell them you were out of work, living in your car and lost a family member. No one talked about the big promotion, busy work schedule or the new house.
Fall has arrived early this year, with 40F nighttime temperatures, chilly rain and cloudy skies for the past couple of weeks. The moods have darkened with the weather here in middle america. People keep their heads down, don't spend money and go through the motions of life. A hard life without much hope that things will get better. Mostly hope that thing don't get worse.
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