Daily Archives: August 9, 2010
A Month Ago I Presented “The Crisis of Capitalism”…
… after today’s posts and quotes on Guns and Butter, stupid internal politics and political agendas funded by money we spend on products, I thought it was time to look at the “Crisis” presentation again. For the 11 minutes of Economic Education, go HERE.
Which Political Agenda Do You Support When Buying Goods?
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A Quote for Today…
As long as I’m discussing the Guns and Butter issue as it effects the folks in our Middle Class and the Government that seems to be screwing them, I thought I’d drop this quote, made about a week ago, by E. J. Dionne:
“Can a nation remain a superpower if its internal politics are incorrigibly stupid?”
Well, can it?
Guns and Butter
We are spending $2 Billion a week in Afghanistan. If you want to see zeros, that’s $2,000,000,000.00 a week. It also means $104 Billion a year.
Meanwhile, we can’t afford to keep our education budgets in functional condition. We can’t reduce our National Debt. We can’t bring down our operating deficit. And we are spending a fortune on foreign servicing (read China) of our debt.
The Teacher/Jobs bill that was passed by the Senate goes to the House tomorrow. It MUST be passed there if we want teachers to keep their jobs, if we want to see class sizes remain small enough, if we want to have all the extra programs beyond basic ABC’s working in our children’s favor.
And what about the money we are still spending in IRAQ? Here is the remains of a military action that we get just about zero benefit from (we shouldn’t have been there in the first place… and now it turns out that the Bush Administration has been documented as planning the invasion of Iraq BEFORE 9/11!)
The debate that is going to come up right away…if not as I write this…is a Guns and Butter debate. Do we keep supplying useless wars or do we keep our own middle-class culture from dying out entirely? Watch the activities of Congress and listen to the coming election speeches if you don’t believe me.
Oscar-winning actress Patricia Neal dead at age 84
Neal died of lung cancer, surrounded by family in Edgartown, Massachusetts, on Martha’s Vineyard.
Neal won an Academy Award for her role in the 1963 film “Hud” alongside Paul Newman and boasted a long list of stage, film and TV credits alongside Hollywood’s leading men including Ronald Reagan, John Wayne and Tyrone Powers.
She once had a love affair with actor Gary Cooper with whom she starred in “The Fountainhead” and “Bright Leaf” but it ended in disaster after his wife found out, leaving Neal broken-hearted, according to an obituary in the LA Times.
She was married to the British writer Roald Dahl for 30 years with whom she had five children.
When Neal was pregnant with their fifth child in 1965 she suffered three massive strokes and was in a coma for three weeks.
But with the help of her husband, she recovered and gave birth to a healthy daughter Lucy and returned to films, acting in “The Subject Was Roses.”
She founded the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center, on whose website she was quoted as saying:
“I’ve learned many lessons in life, but the most important is this – be tenacious and determined, even in old age… I don’t like getting older. I thought I would, but it has turned out differently than I expected.”
This is an actress that will be missed.