Showing posts with label Citizen Watchdog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Citizen Watchdog. Show all posts

AIG profitable?

According to Money.CNN.Com, AIG is Profitable again! I'm glad to hear that happy days are here again, except... wasn't AIG "profitable" just before the credit default swap debacle? So this supposed "great news" lends me to wonder: What parlor tricks could they possibly be using to try and keep the very charitable, big raise giving, drunk on their too big to fail status, throw a party after the tax payers bailed them out AIG going?


From CNN.com (commentary added by us):

"The troubled insurer said it continues to benefit from stabilization in the housing (what housing stabilization?) and credit markets (you mean the ones that are so frozen that small and medium sized businesses still can't get loans?), but future quarters will continue to be volatile (at least a little truth)."


A Fresh Perspective on Obamacare

We hear President Obama blaming healthcare as one of the contributors to our economic problems, and this is a fairly lofty claim to make. I hardly doubt that a hospital visit has caused the surges in foreclosures (maybe a handful) that broke many banks, I believe it was giving loans to people that couldn't afford them. And I highly doubt that a hospital visit had insurance companies writing CDS's. What I have been thinking, however, is that maybe this proposed Obamacare is to help quell a future issue.

What happens when record level unemployment exists, and people can't go to the hospital because of the bureaucracy? People take what they need, people revolt. What I'm postulating is that perhaps Obamacare has been proposed to ease the unemployed's contempt for the government to help stave off a healthcare related revolution. I know this sounds like a lofty idea, but so does blaming the current economic crisis on healthcare. I think they realize that all it takes is one person to throw a rock to get an angry mob in the street.

Does this make me support Obamacare? No, he can keep that socialism. I LOVE America, I LOVE freedom, and I HATE Socialism. The ideas being proposed right now are a direct slap in the face to the principles that this country was founded on. Everyone has the right to get out there and work hard to make their money. After all, more than 2/3 of the current millionaires are first generation (Cite: The Millionaire Next Door) millionaires. The American dream is alive and kicking, but people lack the motivation and the enterprising minds that have made the current 2/3 of the American millionaires.

Am I a millionaire? NO! Will I be a millionaire? I hope. Will I try to become a millionaire? Most definitely. Will I succeed? God, and myself are the only people that have control over that. It is my job to come up with the product, or the service that people need to get to that point! Long Live America! Long Live The Constitution! And Here's To The People Waking Up!

Cops doing bad things

I think we can all attest to seeing police officers sleeping: http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=6808063


Police officers driving through red lights and making illegal U-Turns: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD6AefB0uG8


Police officers illegally parking in front of a fire hydrant to have lunch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DytIyFgtvKI&feature=PlayList&p=A6C15716D2EAE690&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=23


On-duty police officers playing solitare in heir cruiser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySxgcVinICU (blurry video) but here is a picture of another









But I really enjoy the end of the first published article where they make these kids who caught the cop, into bad guys with the following statement: "What may have started out as a joke could cost the officer his job." Shame on you kids for doing your civic duty and watching the watchers!! THE SHAME!!

Why is the White House Partying?

While America is burning, people are getting laid off and children don't have medical coverage, our President, and believe me I have a lot of respect for that title, is partying away tax dollars! From what I've been able to find so far the news stories are saynig that he has been partying nearly every night. Now, let's consider those numbers slightly embellished and say that he maybe has one party a week.

I can't imagine any of these parties costing less than $100,000 dollars. Especially when he is hiring big name stars like Mr. Stevie Wonder to play at them! For the time that he has been in office he has probably spent more than a million dollars on parties! Now my numbers right now are completely fabricated because it's still being investigated, but I feel that I've used conservative numbers to be fair. I have a source below for your reference.

http://www.postchronicle.com/commentary/article_212213325.shtml