A sign of the times? People complaining about the New Housing Rescue plan…. Roxanne Gates owns a condo in Northern Virginia that is under water by more than $100,000. She rented it out so she could move to Europe for a job. Then she got laid off. Because she doesn’t live in the home, she...

Paul Krugman, Martin Wolff and even Ben Freaking Stein (Half-time brilliant, half-time Bozo) have all weighed in on the stimulus package as not being audacious enough. Well, this is why they are probably right ... The nation is losing jobs so quickly that the government, racing to deal with the cris...

Living off of savings and severance packages is all fine and dandy. We all need to save a good 6 months to a years’ worth of income to cover times of unemployment. Using UNEMPLOYMENT benefits to live a life with perks is unacceptable however. What is this? Making the best? How about being lazy...

The local furniture stores and car dealerships here at the Crossroads of Opportunity have signs up talking about spending your tax rebate here. Right. Good luck with that. I'll be able to buy some tire valve covers. There has been some back and forth at Defeatist central about the Stimulus...

SNL (you can decide whether or not it sucks) not only understands the Republican party but is quite prescient about domestic economic issues. That, or the big three automakers are just re-hashing a three month old tv sketch for their survival strategy. x-posted @ GFA51...

I don't know how to get that into a blog, but "JesusFuckingChrist, what the fuck is happening here?" Senator Lindsay-whining about the stimulus-Graham has come out in favor of nationalizing the banking system... As Maxine Waters said, "We have come a long way ."  Oh, an...

As I was doing a variety of things yesterday -- busy day on the chain gang. I particularly enjoyed the idiot gate guard bringing his girlfriend into the guard shack of the secure area which is behind the fence -- I was reflecting on the drive home listening to Handsome Dick Manitoba on Little Steven...

CNN.com is running a story regarding whether Americans are becoming desensitized to the notion of a trillion dollars in light of the bailout bill. There is no real argument here– the growing economy and significant inflation have brought us from an era where cars cost $1,000 to the point where...

You see, this is part of what's screwy with the United States right now. We've got too many politicians like Diane Feinstein and Henry Waxman, sitting on their publicly-funded derrieres all day and doing nothing but coming up with crap like this. As part of the "economic stimulus" now being debated,...

The so called Stimulus Plan that Obama is pushing, is nothing more than a box of bandaids. Good grief. Have a look at some of this and tell me what you think. Highlights of Senate economic stimulus plan CASH PAYMENTS Seniors, disabled and veterans - $300 payments to Social Security beneficiaries, an...