tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post1871770045025978256..comments2024-01-04T07:21:18.243-05:00Comments on John In Carolina: Agenda Journalism Now & In The Reagan YearsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-84523202445233209272009-03-10T21:13:00.000-04:002009-03-10T21:13:00.000-04:00Anon 12:00Thank you for the reminder (as I recover...Anon 12:00<BR/><BR/>Thank you for the reminder (as I recover from the flu) how lucky I am. There must be some way that one can leverage the flu to get government funds - guess I need to establish an advocacy group to that end.<BR/>cksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-55183065125340079512009-03-10T14:07:00.000-04:002009-03-10T14:07:00.000-04:00CKS at noonYou pretty much answered your own quest...CKS at noon<BR/><BR/>You pretty much answered your own question. So much of what is presented as news is really content offered by interested parties who want to stampede us into doing something (which almost always involves some sort of cost to us and some gain to those who would stampede us). Look under "S" for stimulus package and "G" for global warming.<BR/><BR/>When was the last time that a group which seeks to fight some problem provided survey or study data which revealed the problem is not so great as imagined? Or provided the happy news that it was "going out of business" because the problem had been eliminated?<BR/><BR/>With all the doom and gloom and risk that the media tell me I face, I am shocked that I have yet to succumb to "Mad Cow" disease, avian flu, AIDS, killer bees, global warming, terrorism, shooting myself with my own handgun by accident, lead poisoning, brain cancer from my cellphone, being hit in the head by a crap-sicle that falls from a plane, or getting smushed by a meteorite.<BR/><BR/>I guess I'm just some sort of statitical outlier in this horrible world we inhabit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-45181731900004645162009-03-10T12:00:00.000-04:002009-03-10T12:00:00.000-04:00Following up on my previous post - one of the wire...Following up on my previous post - one of the wire services has a report that one in every 50 children will face being homeles this year - from a study done by a group National Center on Family Homelessness. Does anyone question the findings of such groups? It seems that the figures are taken as carved in stone. Might it just be that said organization needs to produce such a figure in order to justify its existence?<BR/>cksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-13883340326572541772009-03-10T06:19:00.000-04:002009-03-10T06:19:00.000-04:00What I do not understand is how liberal Democrats ...What I do not understand is how liberal Democrats get away with making outrageously stupid statements. The other night I heard a commentator say that every minute some 2,00 people are being evicted from their homes. Even if that were true (I do not know of any sheriff that is turning people out at 2 AM), that would mean that it would not take too long before a majority of Americans would be homeless. Yet, that figure along with another one that states a high number of people who are turned away from receiving medical care because they do not have insurance (another falsehood since hospitals are required to treat people whether they can pay or not)are bandied about as the gospel truth.<BR/>My guess is that a grave number of those who find themselves in mortgage difficulty is because they 1. bought a house they could not really afford 2. borrowed heavily against their house to pay for other items that they wanted now 3. didn't read the fine print regarding the ARM that they secured for financing 0r 4. any of a combination of the above. While there are those who find themselves in a pickle because they have lost their jobs, the fact is that any mortgage company will accept some monies (they don't want to be the holders of an empty home) as payment, even if it is not the entire amount due. Whether those who are behind actually contact their mortgage company is a whole other issue - my guess is that most just hope that it is problem that will go waya and so ignore it. Then, they wind up with real problems.<BR/><BR/>Frankly, I do not have a whole lot of sympathy for those who fall into categores 1-4. It annoys me no end that the COngress and Obama feel no compunction about helping foolish people at the expense of those of us who bought a house we could afford, paid our bills regularly and on time, and did not live beyond our means. We have seen our net worth decline now by 2/3ds - as of today since bank stocks continue to slide (and our bank is one of the few that is in good shape). It seems that we are well on our way toward becomming a socialist state. What wealth is not wiped out due to faulty lending will be taken in taxes by the government. There will be no incentive to acquire wealth to pass on to one's heirs. Without that, there will be little if any desire on the part of many to invest in business growth. Instead we will become a nation that spends more than it takes in on substandard care that will be have been mandated by a government that has promised cradle to grave care.<BR/>cksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com