Life Lessons

So PPIP, one of the largest wealth redistribution upwards in the history of our planet (second only to TARP and ahead of TALF...but then where does Fed setting rates below the market for banks fit it?...I digress) is a go after all. U.S. Treasury May Tap Eight to 10 PPIP Asset Managers This Week - Bloomberg You should be sickened, angered and ready to fight the ... read more

The Democrats like to say they're for helping poor people get a level playing field and perhaps even a leg up. The Republicans like to say that they're for preserving your rights and perhaps even honoring the Constitution (though it's a little bit radical among the Republicans to actually use the C-word). Tell me why then, the Democrats want to punish the renters and other non-ownership-class ... read more

Can someone tell me what the government’s definition of “Financial Institution” is? U.S. Seeks Expanded Power to Seize Firms Goal Is to Limit Risk to Broader Economy The Obama administration is considering asking Congress to give the Treasury secretary unprecedented powers to initiate the seizure of non-bank financial companies, such as large insurers, investment firms and hedge ... read more

The "Illuminati" isn't some sort of secret organization running around in pyramid-emblazoned robes -- but it does exist and what I mean by that is that there are people running big business and government who are all in cohoots together (often without even meaning to be, I hope) to use the government and its laws and policies and monopoly on the use of legal violence to redistribute wealth from ... read more

So the UN wants a share of the welfare money for the stimulus package... I guess once again it's "Screw Ruidoso and small town people in this country" ...the UN needs yet more welfare money from mom and dad to help my mom and dad because all the welfare money mom and dad are sending to Washington isn't enough yet"??? Mom and dad might have a serious problem about being forced to send ... read more

Seriously, this confiscation of wealth is bad enough. But then to have to suffer through watching these self-serving, self-dealing, power-mongering Republicans and Democrats pretending they have a) a clue about b) no culpability, much less FULL culpability for our economic nightmare of slippery socialism that they've wrought. I hate to say it, but I have been warning as loudly as I ... read more

My recent featured youtube videos from my homepage on SpokeUp.com - Duck Tales Inflation Lesson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_LWQQrpSc4 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as Tarp Advocates: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQfyOr3e-34 Han Solo as a Tarp Advocate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTB1uUpu-2w I'll start posting these every few days here on the blog so you ... read more

As I've been so vocal and adamant against all the forms of corporate welfare (you can call it "bailouts" if you want), I've gotten one question over and over as these two real quotes from my blog comments asked: "What should we do about it?" "What are you, we, going to do about all this?" So many people write to me saying they feel that, now more than ever, they don't have a voice as ... read more

But give my daddy a job cause he needs one Hes got lots of mouths to feed But if youve got one, I'll have a machine gun So I can scare all the kids down the street Father christmas, give us some money We got no time for your silly toys We'll beat you up if you don't hand it over Give all the toys to the little rich boys -- The Kinks The liars and crooks who run the investment banks ... read more

Fox sent me a questionnaire to fill out about my hometown as we broadcast live from Ruidoso, NM where I lived from the age of 1 til 23 when I moved to NYC.  We'll be broadcasting live at the Win, Place and Show honkey tonk bar on main street during Happy Hour today from 5-6pm EST. It has been so much fun to come home to Ruidoso with NYC-career people...weird, but I suppose juxtaposing Win, ... read more