In a post completely unrelated to those before, I felt compelled to write here about something I touched on a couple months ago, namely how people as they grow older often change in ways they don’t expect, and how a lack of hope does not mean utter hopelessness. Like many people, I’ve faced a good [...]
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Green Shoots
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Humorous, Personal Insights, tagged America, banana, bandwagon, beat, Blue Ball, Blue Devil, box, bruise, bull, Burpee, business, cardboard, caveat emptor, change, chemical, chlorophyll, claim, company, cost, country, crush, died, disgust, display, dollar, drop, E. coli, economist, economy, elbow grease, enforcement, exotic, family, fertilizer, fly, food, fresh, frost, funds, fungicide, garden, genetic engineer, government, Green, ground, Gurney, heirloom, herbicide, honor system, hybrid, Ides of March, ill, import, incident, investment, label, law, layover, lettuce, mango, market, mascot, order, organic, oversight, patch, pathogen, pesticide, plan, plane, plant, plate, plenty, poke, politics, popular, price, produce, regulation, rubbish, rule, season, seed, shoot, shovel, sick, soil, spinach, spray, spring, stipulation, store, summer, sun, supermarket, supplier, supply, Team Blue, test, tomato, variety, vegetable, Victory Garden, wam, Washington, Word War II, WWII on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The phrase used by optimistic economists for the last year is starting to come to life. But I’m not going to talk about the economy, or politics, or even Team Blue (which, by the way, needs a mascot, I think … but Blue Devils is taken and I don’t think Blue Balls would go over [...]
Cash For Clunkers, the Newest Con
Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged block, budget, burden, buy, buyer, car, Cash For Clunkers, choice, class, con, consumer, cost, credit, crush, dealership, demand, destroy, economy, engine, government, hardship, incentive, liquid glass, low-income, market, mileage, new, price, pro, program, purchase, salable, shred, stimulus, supply, trade-in, truck, used, value, vehicle, voucher, water glass on August 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cash For Clunkers seems like a pretty good program. Bring in a not-so-great vehicle and get up to $4500 in credit toward a new vehicle, a value virtually no one would get from a traditional trade-in program. There are a few stipulations but nothing outlandish. And it’s helping both the consumer and the economy, right? [...]
Stimulus Shmimulus
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Humorous, tagged act, allocation, America, appropriation, bill, Congress, Democrat, economy, excess, expenditure, funds, House, legislature, Obama, politics, Republican, Senate, spending, stimulus, Washington on February 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Supposing any reader of this blog has some cursory knowledge of the current state of the American economy (in the crapper) and my inherent mistrust of politicians (crooks, cons, and thieves, the lot of them), here’s my take on the new stimulus that was passed yesterday. It’s crap. I know all the governmentals were standing [...]
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