It’s Only America Bleeding By David Glenn Cox
To what do I owe the pleasure of this company? What is owed to me and to what account do I owe by the nature of my birth? Solemn allegiance and my blood poured out on foreign fields for the honor and glory of brass buttons and medal-resplendent generals?
A promise? A dream? A promise is a note for some other time, and a dream was never real in the first place. So open up the envelope and find what you’ve won: nothing. To (…)
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It’s Only America Bleeding
18 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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Wrong Again
16 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsBy David Glenn Cox
“Here’s what the American people need to know: that the United States government is acting; we will continue to act to resolve this crisis and restore stability to our markets. We are a prosperous nation with immense resources and a wide range of tools at our disposal. We’re using these tools aggressively.” (George W. Bush)
Or, this won’t hurt, the check is in the mail and I won’t..., well, I think you get the idea. We are not a prosperous nation; we once were but we (…) -
Too Poor for Bankruptcy
7 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsBy David Glenn Cox
We, as a country, seem to have little problem saving the wealthy from the clutches of poverty. We’ll bail out banks and insurance companies, mortgage funds. The formerly big three automakers will meet with the new administration this week to arrange a further multi-billion-dollar bailout.
How can we say no? Hundreds of thousands of jobs are dependent on these industries. So I guess we must help them, but our society is so far out of economic whack. Most all of our (…) -
A Single Lifetime
1 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsBy David Glenn Cox
Surviving to over age 50 is no major accomplishment, in and of itself. It’s only a chance to see things and experience things, and sadly, most of it for the worse. As a child, playing in the sun was not seen as a danger; the polar ice caps weren’t melting, or at least we didn’t know about it yet. Gasoline was .29 cents a gallon and seat belts were a novelty only required in the front seat.
But I started life on a wholly segregated, post-World War II street, in a (…) -
Letting the Market Place Work
24 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Letting the Market Place Work By David Glenn Cox
They tell us that we must let the marketplace work, we must never allow the heavy hand of government to impinge on our freedoms. While the rest of the industrial world has national healthcare, we in America have our freedom. Our freedom and forty-seven million people without healthcare.
The markets must be allowed to work! The marketplace always has the best answer; wasn’t that written on the backside of those tablets once handed to Moses? (…) -
You Think I’m Rich, Don’t You?
17 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsBy David Glenn Cox
Poor Joe the plumber, plucked from obscurity and thrust into the national limelight, his life has now become an open book. After all, all he did was ask a question about tax policy. Little did he know the McCain campaign and Fox News would seize upon him and try to make him an icon.
I wondered about Joe even before the stories started to come out about the tax lien against him or his lack of plumbing license. For years I worked for a man that made well over $250,000 a (…) -
The Shot Heard Round the World
9 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsBy David Glenn Cox
When 90-year-old Addie Polk put the gun to her chest and pulled the trigger she was seeking an escape from foreclosure. The first shot failed to do the job so the elderly widow pulled the trigger a second time as Sheriff’s deputies waited on the porch to serve her with an eviction notice. She was rescued by her neighbor, Robert Dillion, who grabbed a ladder and climbed in a back window. Sheriff’s deputies were kind enough to radio for paramedics.
Mrs. Addie Polk and (…) -
The Terminator Cries Uncle
6 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
The Terminator Cries Uncle By David Glenn Cox
Yes, Governor Arnold cries for his Uncle to save him! He warns Treasury Secretary Paulson in his best Austrian accent, "You must help us, ve are close to running out of cash to fund day-to-day government operations and we are unable to access routine, short-term loans.”
A year ago the pundits and experts assured us that it was the subprime market mess that was causing the stock market disruption. They predicted losses (…) -
The World You’ll Come to Know
1 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
5 commentsBy David Glenn Cox
I was talking to my son yesterday about the economy and politics in general. He’s twenty-three, self-employed, and ambitious. Even as a child he was ambitious. “Dad,” he’d say, “can I borrow the lawnmower?” Then he’d come back at sundown with $150.00. He never cared for cartoons, video games, or school but his one weakness was the Three Stooges, the originals with Curly not Shemp. He was a purist and Shemp was no Curly, just as Dan Quayle was no Jack Kennedy.
But as we (…) -
A Pig By Any Other Name
12 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
By David Glenn Cox
With pseudo-intellectual, sycophantic stealthiness, steeled stiletto daggers of subterfuged surrogates stand stunned, shocked and savaged by serrated subliminal wounds inflicted by non-existent weapons of their own invention. Ask me not what he said for I know what they were thinking!
Meanwhile, back at the pig ranch, another American brokerage house is on the deathwatch. Lehman Brothers is dying and the death rattle has set in. It is now only a question of time before (…)