Every once in a while I’ll have a series of failures occur that couldn’t have been predicted and which weren’t logical at all. Logically, they should never have happened. Like the time that my computer, our DVD player and my car, all failed one after the other in a couple day timeframe. Even odder: for a few days we used a spare DVD player that was so noisy it drove my family crazy and took all the pleasure out of watching movies. I told my sons we should plug back in our old DVD player because if it was going to have reset itself that would have happened already and sure thing, the player which had been completely, brick dead a few days prior worked perfectly once again, and has ever since. My car had to be repaired though, and my computer needed to receive massive massaging to finally get it back on line.
Overcoming the Bush legacy: a people bled, betrayed and frightened
The Power of Propaganda
Just before election day I understood what they had meant to accomplish when, only one month after Obama’s inauguration, Republicans began reciting the litany I would hear many times over the next 20 months, “Just look at the mess Obama’s gotten us into.”
I was so astonished the first time I heard a friend say this, I was literally struck dumb. After a moment, I recovered the power of speech enough to ask, “How can you say that, Barry? Obama hasn’t been in office long enough to know his way around his desktop yet, let alone take any action which could affect the country in any radical sense. What we’re dealing with is directly due to the policies Bush enacted over eight years of bleeding the country dry.”
NJ’s pension debacle: time to rethink pensions?
A recent article gives a view of some of the steps which have caused a public employees pension fund debacle in New Jersey. This very informative, well researched report, is written by a police officer. It seems to be lacking only one piece of essential information: were pension funds actually looted by New Jersey governors, or were employee pay-ins simply not matched, at the 8.5% rate stipulated by law when the funds were created? No matter the answer, it’s apparent that there are serious problems with the pension fund’s management.