"Meltdown in US finance system"!
I wonder why?!
Just another step in the decline of the United States as a world leader. This is what happens when a do-nothing government winks and allows big business to run loose unchecked. This was a preventable crisis, and there will be much more to come as the real fallout of the failure of Lehman Brothers Holdings spreads into smaller financial markets. Guess whom gets to pay for all this mess? I know; it's an easy answer, because most of you know your own names. Joe and Jane Taxpayer and Mary and Bill Consumer. I think we ought to give the Republicans eight more years of executive privileges, and allow the good old boy Democrats running Congress to continue ignoring the needs of this country.
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News coverage of hurricane Ike was terrible. It isn't that there was not enough of it; there was way too much by far. Did you perchance see CNN's coverage after the storm was past? Did you see reporter/personality Anderson Cooper looking completely dorky wearing hip-waders and standing in water up to his gizmo? He was really putting it all on the line, wasn't he? Not news, folks! Just plain entertainment. He and we would have been better served if he had lashed himself to a palm tree or power pole and rode the storm out in that humbling position. He would have news to report then ... if he lived through it. "News reporters" of his ilk are a dime a dozen!
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2 comments:
Well it will be interesting to see when this realy starts to hurt the average persons wallet. It is so hard to tell because we still seem to be spending money like we are all rich. Watch out for the credit card crisis. It is coming next.
I agree with about the hurricane coverage. Too much hype about the whole story. Not that the hurricane was not very devastating but the coverage made it seem like the end was coming. I think it needs to be covered like news, not like a media. personality. We also do not need to see reporters standing in he middle of a flooded street or some such thing.
The other thing i do not like is them not allowing people to go home. This is America and it is their property, sort of. The more people are not allowed to go back right aftera storm the more people will not leave.
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