4th quarter is going to be ugly but with the low interest rates and credit unfreezing the economy is going to be humming. the market is a leading indicator. tax and spend is not going to help a dang thing.

Well, heck, we can just take the worthless welfarians and give them slob descriptions. 40,000 Oprah reviewers, 31,000 to study the view, 100,000 to examine beer comercials..... Its all stay at home work, the stuff those people do best, next to drugs, booze, and robbery.
A perfect fit since many of them can't fit throug ha door or into an average chair. Plus most of them don't own cars, so its a green solution.
I'd like to sign up as a quality inspector for internet porn.

these may be old around here, but i recently saw a bumper sticker that said,

except for slavery, nazism, fascism and communism, war never solved anything.

when googling for a site to find said bumper sticker, i ran across,

communism only killed 100 million people. let's give it another chance.

lord help us. when will americans remember why america is great?

pip...that there is beautiful. thanks.

"lord help us. when will americans remember why america is great"

Pip, I honestly believe the answer is when we start, once again, teaching our children the significance and importance of pride and patriotism. We need to educate these kids into realizing pride and patriotism IS NOT something to be ashamed of, is not a sin, and is what allows one to further improve upon one's society. I'd like to share something with the regulars on this site if Denny doesn't mind. When my Dad was born, my grandfather was out of the country during WW2. My grandfather had 5 daughters and 4 sons (after my Dad, when he came back from the war, he had a 5th son for a total of 10 kids-wow). Anyway, he felt "guilty" for not being home when my Dad was born and even for the several months (I think it was close to a year) afterwards. To help him feel "better", he collected newspaper clippings/articles as well as war correspondences for the soldiers as a "collection" for my Dad to have to understand what the world was going through when he was born. My Poppy passed away when he was 48 (train accident, he was a conductor) and my Dad died at 48 (post surgical fracture repair complication) if that wasn't weird huh? Anyway, I inherited the paper collection and over the Holidays, decided to puruse them. If one can't read these articles, letters to my Grandmother from my Pop, pictures my Pop took/received while overseas, and feel an overwhelming since of pride, sadness, etc. then one is an idiot. I now know, after spending four hours reading "some" of these papers, why theirs is called the greatest generation. I showed my 8 year old pictures of blown up ships, Pearl Harbor while it was burning, and yes, dead Holocaust vicitms stacked like cordwood, to help her explain what her great grandfather helped to conquer. It was very emotional for me to see these things, and I am probably one of the least emotional folks you have ever met. Anyway, I walked away from my desk after purusing through this thinking someone (if I had more time and didn't own a business, maybe it could be me), needs to start a grass roots effort at restoring pride and patriotism in this country once again. I feel like that will be the only way we downsize government and put a lid on liberalism run rampant.
Ray

Ray- nobody could have said it better. Your grandfather and his generation are owed a great debt by our Country.

Rob J

BO said he will create 3 million jobs with 600,000 of them federal employees. Guess who those 600,000 employees be. You guessed it, ACORN community organizers and his civilian brown shirt federal police force to enforce his maniacal climate change laws. It's going to be fun. Lock and load guys.

Seems to be a bit of dust in the air round here, Ray.

Bit hard to read that with a tear in the eye.

God Bless our veterans, and those that honor them.

Ray.......

On one hand ...those who fought to win the war were indeed the greatest generation with honor & reverence won on the field of battle.Their patriotism, love for & defense of this country was what defined that generation.
But we must not forget either many of that generation brought us Franklin D. Roosevelt`s New Deal which has evolved to Liberal Socialist control over much of our daily activities in this country, the Media, Education,Senate, House of Representatives, Courts, & our new Socialist President.
Historians will ponder as to how a Nation populated with so many loyal patriotic people could have ever allowed Socialists to gain a position of power & work against this country.

Is there any truth that Cher is going to sing at the inauguration? And I am not thinking of "Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves", although it is probably appropriate for most inaugurations.

How many people work for the Federal government?

About half of them.

Pete