Gimme the Money, Part II

Paulson has dumb PR skills.  Taxpayers will never support this bailout plan when no on Wall Street is publicly asking for money.  If he really wants any bailout plan to pass, he better get Wall Street executives to publicly beg for $ to save the industry, express contrition AND have the executives voluntarily pledge part [...]

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Gimme the money!

I’m no fan of the proposed government bailout of financial firms.  I wrote to Senators Feinsten and Boxer and to Rep. Brad Sherman to express my distaste for the plan.  I only got a form response from Feinstein but here’s one of my biggest beef:
Tax Implications – Firms getting the bailout will incur losses when [...]

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OC Men

Christopher Cox – Republican from OC.  Chairman of SEC.  Oversaw failures of Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers.
Robert Citron – Democrat from OC.  Former Treasurer of OC.  Bankrupted OC in 1994 with repo’s and FRN’s.

Men from OC cannot be trusted with money, regardless of party affiliation.

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Hummingbird

I finally got a shot of a hummingbird in flight.  Not as exciting as the peacock picture, though a lot clearer.

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uggh

I can’t believe I let my UAL miles expire!  Granted, I’ll probably lose any credit I have with Southwest pretty soon but if I had checked the UAL site in June, I could have kept some miles by signing up for Netflix or those useless magazine subscription.  Oh well.

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