A Beginning

I haven't written anything in quite a while. Meanwhile, Barak Obama has been elected President and is the first person of Africian-American descent to hold the office.
Bush and company left the country in a hell of a mess. We're in a downward sprial of poor sales leading to layoffs leading to foreclosures leading to bankrupcies with no real end in sight. Congress passed a stimulus spending bill that I fear will leave my children and grandchildren with a huge debt.

There is also a growing disparity between the rich and everybody else. Some people have gross amounts of money and are able to do pretty much whatever they want. Then there are the rest of us. As my father used to say, "Come the revolution."

GM and Chrysler are on the verge of banruptcy. They want more billions from the Feds. I don't think they should get it. I also don't think the stimulus money should be used to avoid layoffs and cutbacks in schools. When the stimulus money is gone what do you do then?

Meanwhile the "war" goes on in Iraq and Afghanistan. I think we should let those people kill each other. Much of what's going on over there is being done in the name of religion. Somebody said, "With or without religion you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But to have good people doing evil things, well, that takes religion."