Comments for Life a the End of the World

Comment on Why America Needs a Vision for the Future by efbq

efbq — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:27:27 +0000

Nader is an activist first, and a politician as an afterthought. He's not interested in building a political movement, or in anything which involves negotiation or compromise. Once again, he has made it clear that he does not want to be involved in any political party whatsoever. There are still good candidates running for the Greens. Check out GPus.org - Jesse Johnson, Cynthia McKinney, Kent Mesplay and Kat Swift are all excellent candidates. Personally, I support Jesse Johnson. Unfortunately, Nader is the only name the press is likely to report on in conjunction with the Greens.

Comment on Oil hits $100 a Barrel by Allan

Allan — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:00:35 +0000

Oil broke $101 today. Funny how you put the contrast between Maria and the “fresh-faced Kansas-type innocent.”

Comment on Better Than TV by OLED TV Fan

OLED TV Fan — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:12:18 +0000

I am I appriciate your view about watching Wall Street . but we can not compare watching TV and watching Wall Street

Comment on A River in Egypt by frankschulteladbeck

frankschulteladbeck — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:57:17 +0000

I could not agree with you more about the banks. I had a mortgage broker inform me that there were no bad practices in the mortgage industry at all. I asked about the approval process that lead to such problems. She stayed quiet for a moment, and then responded that they cannot be blamed for that. Oh well, there goes responsibility.

Comment on The “R” Word by frankschulteladbeck

frankschulteladbeck — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:34:35 +0000

I like listening to economists, but I do not listen to them. There are two many what ifs to answer, before we can tell what is happening with the economy. I remember one economist being overly optimistic about the US economy before the last recession. When we came out of it, she made the statement that she knew everything would be alright in the end. Well, yes, in the end, things will improve, but that does not mean that many of us did not have a hard time of it.

You mention that hopefully something better will emerge, but I have been a little pessimistic of late. I am seeing banks/financial institutions retreating from the practices that brought about this mess, so that the federal government will not impose regulations from them doing it again. It reminds me of the movie industry with its rating system. They shore it up, and enforce it more, whenever they fear that a regulation will be placed on them. In this way they can say we do not need a regulation, because we are doing it ourselves. This may be a bad example, because I really do not think there should be governmental rules on film ratings, but it was just such an obvious example to me.