I mean the election was over a long time ago. Hillary lost and it was a bummer for promoting more Progressive/Populist policies was assuredly lost in the fray.

I've blown it off assuming we will have complete 1 party rule (as if the 2 party system gives up that much of a choice).

But, we have the lame duck and I hate to tell everyone this but it is Democratic leadership that has first up....not dealing with US middle class jobs, the financial crisis, setting up a HOLC or any such thing...
nope, they are promising to pass more corporate lobbyists demands, heavy focus on guest worker Visas/immigration.

So, expect a disaster...charming, let's do a sudden spike up in the domestic labor supply...ignoring our manufacturing hemorrhage while even more manufacturing/production jobs are on life support.... and frankly this is by Democrats, in the lame duck.

They might wait until the new session but it depends on how much they can guarantee a US worker sell out by the new Democratic sweep into Congress.

I'm not kidding, these are the internal agenda reports.

I will try to blog some more on what the economic agenda ought to be in 2009 -- what are the highest priorities, or easiest good fixes to pass.

The US desparately needs its infrastructure repaired, the middle/working classes deparately need jobs, and banks need to be recapitalized with loans that they can be confident will be paid back on a fiscally prudent basis.

I see the makings of an economic program here.

Try posting a link in a comment on this site, I'm sure he'll appreciate the rant considering what he named his entire blog site. He lists us in his blog roll and I think he's a nice guy too. One of the economics blogger pioneers, breaking through the economic elitism when we had Bob Woodward writing books like Maestro on Greenspan and idiotorial texts like Fried Green Thomas Friedman Flat brain flat world.

Don't know if they take submissions though. You probably can tell that I wasn't very technical this time in my entry. The fact remains, that what we had before Congress yesterday was really a battle of philosophies, and the casualties were the American tax payer. Human nature must be taken into account, that is why the Soviets failed, and their mirror opposites on the otherside of the spectrum failed as well.

I wouldn't call a bottom and that's because of the prime ARM reset rate.

2nd image in link.

Bottom line is houses are still plain too expensive for most wages and while our lovely Congress seems to think that importing workers will help, that will only depress wages, displace US workers further...causing more defaults and foreclosures.

But somewhat understandable. In a society which spends years telling you that lazy people shouldn't be allowed to live, that family loyalty isn't important, that you can kill off the next generation if the sudden appearance of a pregnancy blows a hole in your future plans for yourself, then why not, when those future plans have been blown up by the greed of Wall Street and there is no future you can see that is good, at least relieve the human race of one more mouth to feed on welfare?

In other words, the result of the worst myths of the right and left wings in this country, in hard times, WILL be suicide among those who believe those myths.

I just watched a local news program that said the calls to the suicide hotline are up 54%.

Folks, insurance policies do not pay on a suicide.

I don't know why people think anyone would want this but bottom line, you off yourself, your family gets nothing and is now in incredible grief.

I so wish people could rise above the moment and realize that this too shall pass and more importantly the destruction of the middle class, upon which more and more people are getting trapped by...is simply not their fault.

that I'm a presidential elector for Nader in my home state?

And I'll tell you that it took me a while to punch his name on the voting machine, but I wrote Ralph in. It's a damn shame that Nader wasn't invited to the debates.

McCain agreed to debate him, but Obama refused to let Nader into the 3 debates.