Up in Smoke

Date: October 8, 2008

      I am watching and listening and I see mistake after mistake and all of it driven by greed and avarice.

      Can't stop the contract clause that lets millions be given to the inept CEO?

      What they did was CRIMINAL.

      How about FINES - oh say - about equal to the rip off?

      I haven't checked my credit cards. Did they lower them? Hope not., Not that it matters.

      After spending over $300 at the store this week-end - I renewed my COSCO membership and decided eating was optional.

      Try telling that to the cat! OR the dog on K/D prescription dog food.

      Lower rates? Only good if I can refi the mortgages (down to $580,000 now) into a 30 yr fixed - how about 40 year? or 50 year?

      When the economy isn't broken - most people move every 2-4 years anyway.

      I am considering renting out the three back bedrooms and building the 4th bedroom for me.

      What else do you do?

      Toss everything in San Diego into Storage and rent it out? Not without remodeling the kitchen and taking the new appliances out of there.

      Change jobs? What jobs?

      It's a little like walking over quicksand. Any false step and down you go.
And there is no way back up.

      Halliburton ripped us off for 9 Trillion? Was that the number? Still going up?

      And guess who reaps that reward - the Republicans who pull George W's strings.

      Telling people not to shop is simply driving the economy lower.

      Telling people to "sell all your stock" is making them loose money that doesn't need to be lost.

      You don't loose it until you sell it.

      The depression taught a lot of us the plain facts.

      Ride it out.