Resolution 2008
Lately I have not entered enough political opinion posts......this year I plan to try to remedy that.
It is not that I don't have opinions, in fact, there are regular blizzards of them. But they are elusive. It is like trying to catch a snowflake ...... melting away while hundreds of others continue to fall.
For instance, the Iraq lull......is it real.....or a managed/manipulated public relations ploy to claim the surge "worked"? Why do I wonder about that? Because nowhere can I find information as to the chicken/egg aspect.....like what reduction in daily ground operations has resulted in comparison with times prior to the lull? And if there is a huge difference, was it a result or an enabling factor?
Then the economy. Does anyone really have a handle on where this is all going to stabilize? The oil price, the interest rates, the dollar valuation, the price of gold........ whew! lots of G-forces in the rise of these common indicators of ------ well in earlier days these would be warning signals that all was not well......... and I am overwhelmed with just the increased prices of bread and milk.........HELP!!!!!!!!
And my snailmail box today had a notice from my communications supplier that there would be a monthly increase in my bundled services, phone, broadband and cable......this is on top of increases in my homeowner's association fee, my medicare premium, my medigap policy premium, in real property taxes, and on and on.......the increase in income just won't match up.
And the promise that the Federal Reserve is going to drop interest rates multiple times in the near future to try to control the recession, warding off a (sshhh) depression ...... further exacerbates the problem if one has moved to being a saver instead of an investor.....punishment indeed. It means whenever I rollover T-bills or notes, or CD's I will generate less and less income ........ who said being an octogenarian is fun.......I made that category in 2007. So being long doesn't have a lot of appeal either ....... I won't be share shopping when the prices drop to tempting levels. Let's see....there was a song of long ago.....titled
"I'll Get By"...... guess I'll learn the lyrics.
graysmoke
It is not that I don't have opinions, in fact, there are regular blizzards of them. But they are elusive. It is like trying to catch a snowflake ...... melting away while hundreds of others continue to fall.
For instance, the Iraq lull......is it real.....or a managed/manipulated public relations ploy to claim the surge "worked"? Why do I wonder about that? Because nowhere can I find information as to the chicken/egg aspect.....like what reduction in daily ground operations has resulted in comparison with times prior to the lull? And if there is a huge difference, was it a result or an enabling factor?
Then the economy. Does anyone really have a handle on where this is all going to stabilize? The oil price, the interest rates, the dollar valuation, the price of gold........ whew! lots of G-forces in the rise of these common indicators of ------ well in earlier days these would be warning signals that all was not well......... and I am overwhelmed with just the increased prices of bread and milk.........HELP!!!!!!!!
And my snailmail box today had a notice from my communications supplier that there would be a monthly increase in my bundled services, phone, broadband and cable......this is on top of increases in my homeowner's association fee, my medicare premium, my medigap policy premium, in real property taxes, and on and on.......the increase in income just won't match up.
And the promise that the Federal Reserve is going to drop interest rates multiple times in the near future to try to control the recession, warding off a (sshhh) depression ...... further exacerbates the problem if one has moved to being a saver instead of an investor.....punishment indeed. It means whenever I rollover T-bills or notes, or CD's I will generate less and less income ........ who said being an octogenarian is fun.......I made that category in 2007. So being long doesn't have a lot of appeal either ....... I won't be share shopping when the prices drop to tempting levels. Let's see....there was a song of long ago.....titled
"I'll Get By"...... guess I'll learn the lyrics.
graysmoke
posted by graysmoke @ 2:17 AM
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