Stu-Baby Files His Report

It has become clear that people on the political fence need no longer consider voting for Mitt Romney because I am not convinced that President Obama is the most qualified man to lead this troubled nation out of this seemingly unending economic recession.  The President has proven himself a skilled and adept leader who has made all of the right moves as far as the economy is concerned.  The economy would be in even better shape now had congress passed the President's extensive jobs bill proposals of last September, which would ease the fiscal strain on local governments and enable vital services such as police and fire to be maintained and also to preserve jobs.  Mit Romney had a choice in this campaign and unfortunately it has become clear from my extensive following of the Romney campaign that he has made the wrong choice.  Mitt Romney has chosen to so allign himself with the tea party that he desires above all things to become "one of them" and accepted by the group at large as such.  Mitt Romney's solution metaphorically to a report of frayed electrical wiring in a home is to take gasoline and torch the whole house.  This "let it burn" philosophy is particularly evident in his policy twords collapsing real estate prices, which has become a major crisis in America.  His view is to somehow "flush out the problem" by expelling current occupants from their homes, which in turn will be bought up for pennies on the dollar and used for some shall we say "more lucritive" tax oppertunity for big cities.  The cost in individual human lives or the adverse economic ripple effects of such an action has been ignored by Mit Romney, who believes above all things to Privitize everything.  Some have argued that if we could lower business taxes low enough we could somehow repatriate foreign money back to this country.  Some have also argued that the elimination of any number of business taxes such as interest income and capital gains and inheritence, would spur business.  You can't raise a sick person from his bed by telling him if he gets up he'll never have to work again, as if that news would somehow encourage him to do what he inherently lacks the fortitude to do.  We are already virtually paying international corporations to steal our money and not pay it back.  We know there word is no good when they promise to do things such as make loans to small business owners wanting a leg up.  We don't know what happened to the money the Fed gave away in the September 2008 deboccle.  Neither can our problem be solved by returning to the gold standard and even buying gold and silver is tantamount to monetery suicide as this point as these metals have become vastly overpriced to to hysterical speculative investments.  Nobody in government has the will to pass needed regulatory laws against fraudulant investment schemes or any sort of regulations encouraging the purchase of American goods over foreign ones.  Too many on the right in fact reguard Communist China as an ideal economic model of a nation which "is doing it right" by offering their workers few rights and nearly as few environmental regulations.  They see nothing wrong with the wholesale violation of civil liberties in that country but instead would in general pose China as a model to be followed in this nation.  While the President's own record has not been pristine in these matters, his record has been far preferable to any of the alternatives.  As for the US dollar it has shown signs of ongoing stability and reliability, with little danger of either inflation, rise in interest rates, or devaluation in comparrison to other countries.  Indeed the tea party right seem to be at every turn encouraging and enabeling the very economic deboccle they profess to dread, in that they are among the worst offenders in boosting our enemies at every oppertunity while trashing the American ecconomy and by inference, the American people at large, whom they seem to have no reguard for the welfare of.  Clearly all of these things should be brought to light in the fall Presidential campaign.  As to the dreaded "oil crisis" this is for the most part non existant.  But the tea party will try to fan the fires of non existent events in a last ditch effort to foment a crisis and torpedo this economy.  The US self sufficiency picture hasn't looked this rosey in a long time and it shows every indication of continuing.

Two probes the size of washing machines are being sent to the moon, to see if Tide has its normal sudsing action there.  The arsonist who struck in Hollywood on Thursday night moved north to the Valley on Friday night as police take steps to pin down the culpret.  Cops now claim to have equipment to pin point the source of shots fired on Newyears Eve.  My hunch is that they use a divining rod.  ( ) This is December 31, 2011 and Eye Witness News is on now.  Since I got out of the car the temperature dropped about fifteen degrees.  I wwas getting warm at Mom’s place in that thin sweater and was even hotter in the car when the windows didn’t open.  Pete turned on the AC.  But when I got here Bill said he was cold and the building was amazingly cool.  I was surprised at how little time I had to smoke a “re entry” cigarette before dinner.  We had Ravioli and a green salad and garlic bread with applesauce for desert.  I’ll be putting on coffee very shortly.  Only Andrew was at the table with me.  For those of you wondering about Stewart- - he showed up while we were eating lunch and listened to Judy’s long discourses about morality and the economy.  Stewart surprised me afterward saying that he is not supporting Obama because he had become convinced that Romney’s economic policies would ruin America just like they ruined all those countries.  He said he had been gathering material and “following” Romney.  (I don’t know if that was literal)  He had a bunch of print-outs with him just chalked with economic statistics, many I didn’t understand, and was a little surprised that he did.  He’ll be putting out an essay in a Federation outlet tomorrow.  I resolved that if it was a good outing or at least passable, then I would not give Tim the link to that angry blog I wrote last night, possibly channeling Jim Morrison or somebody else who was angry.  After today but before talking to Stewart I was having my own mental quandary.