Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Even more of the great American financial bailout!???

I can't believe it! As each day passes, Congress wants to add more and more to the bail out package proposed to help secure Wall Streets financial stability. Now they are talking about paying off peoples car loans, student loans, home mortgages; it seems now, that if you owe it, Congress is willing to pay it off for you. You have to be kidding me!!!!???? Are they serious???? Hell, if they actually want to do that, why don't they just tell every American to gather all their charge card bills, car payment books and mortgage payment stubs, send them in with next years tax returns and just pay them off in full for EVERY American who pays taxes. I mean, hell, if they are going to go as far as to be willing to pay off the majority of debt which most people have, they may as well go the whole 9 yards and just say "If you owe any money for anything, don't worry, we'll pay it for you". Not only is this bad politics, its bad business and whats more, it reeks of socialistic policy. We ought to just get it over with and replace the Stars and Strips with the effing hammer and sickle...Jesus...Talk about going to hell in a hand basket...But this is no joke. This is some seriously bad stuff happening to our economy, and our country, right now, and everyone needs to wake the eff up and start paying attention. We all need to take some responsibility not only for our spending habits, but for who we elect to represent us as well, because if we don't, my little joke about replacing the Stars and Strips may just be a reality in a few years...Yikes...

Millen gets the sack

As any of my friends know, I actually liked Matt Millen (Detroit Lions' former GM and prez), but I can't say I was surprised that he got canned today-not after what Ford Jr said Monday, anyhow. The problem I have is, if he was going to be fired, why now? In doing so the organization pretty much declares that this year is over with. That there is no reason for the team to even take the field. And seeing as how this years team is made up of nothing but Millen's draft picks and trade acquisions do we really expect any of them to play hard for the rest of the year after seeing the guy who hired them get uncermoniously fired? It's not as if they were playing hard anyways-at least that is how it looked to me, but now, Lions fans will be privy to watching 53 guys, all of whom making millions of $$$'s a year, basically slacking their way through the remainder of the year. If the team weren't a joke before this event, just wait until we get through half the year. By weeks 9 and 10 this organization will officially be the worst in ALL of pro sports-at any level. The sad thing here is that firing Millen really won't accomplish anything. The real problem with this team is it's owner. You have to look no farther than the auto company the Ford family runs to see how good of business men that Ford Sr and Jr are. What really must happen for the Lions to ever be a good team is for the Fords to sell them to someone who actually cares to bring a winning product to the city of Detroit. So for all of you morons who actually got what you wanted-Millen being fired-I ask this: What are you going to say 2-5 seasons from now when the Lions are still the worst team in the NFL?

Monday, September 22, 2008

The great American financial bailout

What a sad state we have found our economy in. In the last week several brokage houses on Wall Street have declared bankruptcy, led by AIG. The result is a rush to judgement decision by our 'president' to propose a $700 billion bailout, with no plan of over sight as to how the money is spent. I am sorry, but this has to be one of the, if not THE, worst idea in modern US economic history.
For one, the money will have to come from the tax cofers, meaning that we tax payers will have to foot the bill for this. I dont know about you, but I have no desire to be 'part' owner of several companies that have no idea how to run themselves and make money when I, and every other tax payer, wont even have any say as to how they will be run. Secondly, where the fuck are they going to get all this god damn money?!!! I mean, hell, if they can come up with this much effing money to bail out Wall Street to "keep our economy from falling into a depression", then where the hell is all the money we need to repair our crumbling infrastructure? Or how about our public shool systems? I suppose they just plan on 'printing' it. Yeah, like that is a good idea. As if the dollar isnt weak enough on the global market, generating another $700 billion worth of it-with nothing to back it but our 'word' that we will pay it back-should do wonders for its value. Oh yeah, I can just see it now...falling into a bottomless pit so deep that the effing peso is worth more than the dollar on the global markets. Fortunately, it looks as though Congress is going to be smart about this one and tell Dub-ya to stick it where the sun dont shine-as they should...

Personally, they should just let all these companies fail. Yes, I know, allowing it to happen would most likely send ours, and the global, economy into depression, but to me the solution is akin to that required by drug addicts when they need help-most times they have to reach bottom before they will seek help. And by bailing out all these companies they learn nothing except that if they get into trouble the Fed will step in to save-the-day (trumpets please)! Give me a break...Supposedly we live in a free market capitalistic society, and compnaies fail all the time here. You dont see local governments stepping in to bail out small business owners when they have to close their doors do you? No, of course not. And this isn't any different. Sure these companies are much larger and they hold billions and trillions of assets globally, but we should just let them fail. It's not as if someone with the capital-i.e. Trump, Gates, Buffet, or someone over seas-wouldnt step in and start up another company to fill the void left behind. And, by letting it happen that way, Wall Street and our Fed Govt would learn their lesson about just letting anyone and (quite literally) anything have credit-no matter how trust worthy they are.

The pathetic Detroit Lions

Ok, I have to admit-I am a Detroit Lions fan. Yeah, I know, it takes a LOT of balls to admit it, but at least I can. At any rate, I have to do a little venting about them...I am effing sick and tired of all the losing. It's not just the losing, but the ways in which they manage to lose. Whether it's just getting out manned by the 49ers like they did this past weekend, or spotting a team 21 points only to come back, take the lead and then have their pathetic excuse for a QB toss 3 pick sixes. It makes me sick. Just to clarify I don't blame Matt Millen one bit. No, the fault for this sick excuse for a sports organization lies solely and completely with Bill Ford Sr. The sad state that the Lions are in is no ones fault but his own. You need look no further than the sorry state that his automobile company is in. Ford Motor Co. is pretty much days-if not hours-away from bankruptcy. But, if you need more proof than that, just look at the Lions record while he has been their owner for the last 40 something years: one playoff victory and the teams only winning seasons coming during the 90's thanks entirely to Barry Sanders-the greastest running back to ever play the game.
Barry singlehanded carried the Li-downs into the playoffs for 9 of his 10 seasons with the team. And when he realized he was never going to win jack shit as a memeber of the Lions and he couldn't be traded before his body gave out on him he took the only option left to him-he retired. Good for him I say. At least he left the game with his physicality still intact. At any rate, I digress...So long as Ford Sr. owns the Li-downs the team will forever be the regular laughing stock of the NFL. My only hope is that one day the league wakes up to the realization that one of its oldest franchises is pathetic because its owner is and that they force him to sell the team to someone who will make them a winner. I just hope that this happens while I am still alive so that I can witness their rebirth into, at the very least, a respectable and competitive team again.

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Where have i been???

Well, it's been a long time since I last posted on my blog and for those who read it I apologize. September has been a crazy month for the me with many good things happening to me, but I have a dark cloud hanging over my head at the moment which has been taking away from all the positive things going on in my life right now. Needless to say this negative energy has distracted me from keeping up with my blog. But no more. I will be posting regularly again and you can expect the same, sometimes over the top-sometimes borderline psychotic-opinions by yours truely to appear again right here. So stay tuned, I will return later this weekend with more of my thoughts and opinions...