Instead of loving their neighbor, "Christians" are more likely to torture them, just in case the neighbor might know something they don't know about their minister also being a hypocrite.
The 'bottom' that people are so desperately searching for, in retail sales, in the housing market, is not really the bottom. It's the new reality. Growth off of that floor will be slow.
Economists are about as accurate as a bad weathermen: How many stories of 'bad models' and flat-out dumb ass wrong predictions do we have to go through until an economist stands up and admits? "Hey, we're just guessing."
Consumer groups who are touting this bill as a success, bloggers who are smiling and happy about it and consumers who think somehow their representatives did something for them are missing two really important facts about the credit card issue.
There are no green shoots, because there is no recovery when a bubble pops. There is only gradual and slow, painful realization that it was a bubble. And now, it's gone.
Clearly Tom Tancredo is a bigot. And most would say a racist. And the people who enable him to remain in power, by donating money to his political c...
