OH WHAT A WEB WE WEAVE WHEN FIRST WE PRACTICE TO DECEIVE

Hi,

A little this and that this week. Annoying elements of our present economic culture.

First, let me make clear that Tiger Woods earned his fame as well as his infamy and I do not begrudge either or the spoils of his riches. However, if I were a banker in these lean times, would I lend him $54.5 million on his property on Jupiter Island to pay his "ex" her share? Particularly if I considered the state of the economy, the loss of property values, Woods' loss of sponsors, and the state of Woods' recent golf playing and that newly divorced folks are not the best risk. A banker would have to think long and hard to find a plus benefit in all that. Evidently, one did!!!!!!!!!!! I just hope the property doesn't wind up on the tax default list and cost the rest of us.

Well, "they" say illegal immigrants are leaving the United States at a fast rate??????????Like there's somewhere else to go where the economy, politics, or safety is better? If so--what are we waiting for????????

On top of this, one of the newspaper's "erstwhile" journalists felt that he had to point out that the supposed loss of illegal immigrants counted as a large loss to social security. It seems with our present usual honesty and wisdom those illegals have ILLEGAL????????????social security numbers that they and their employers pay into and for which those ILLEGALS will never receive the promised??????compensation for the money the Government collects.

Now I see tons of things wrong with that whole premise. First: doesn't social security check the numbers they give out--you know: stolen, deceased, made up and so forth?????????; second: don't the employers check to make sure they are not paying out money unnecessarily. What kind of FAT pockets do we have here????; Third: if the government knows this is happening, wouldn't it occur to at least one bureaucrat that the statistical figures would be completely SCREWED, GLUED, AND MAYBE EVEN TATTOOED?????????AND THAT THIS WAS A DISHONEST approach????????????

I mean look at it this way. Maybe Social Security is NOT overextended and ready to go bankrupt!!!!!!!!! If there are so many ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS on the SOCIAL SECURITY rolls that don't have to be REIMBURSED with social security payments BUT ARE recorded as LEGITIMATE holders of SOCIAL SECURITY then we don't actually owe ALL that money WE THOUGHT HAD to be paid out!!!!!!!!!!If we don't have to PAY OUT ALL THAT MONEY then SOCIAL SECURITY MAY ACTUALLY BE SOLVENT!!!!!!!!!!

SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHAT "WHEN FIRST YOU PRACTICE TO DECEIVE"?????????? Your mother was right. It gets intolerably complicated.

A new twist on Socialist thinking about the economy. The FIRST LOOK program--what a SWELLIGENT--ELEGANT PROGRAM THIS IS!!!!!!!!! UNLESS YOU ARE A PRIVATE INVESTOR WHO MIGHT WANT TO INCREASE YOUR SAVINGS.

This program is designed to take the investment opportunities AWAY from the INDIVIDUAL (THAT ROTTEN SPECULATOR) and give local governments and community groups (I wonder if they mean Socialist groups) using NEIGHBORHOOD STABILIZATION MONEY (a synonym for Government money AS IN YOURS AND MINE Tax money) FIRST CRACK (what a ironic use of words) at buying bank-owned homes (THOSE DIRTY SPECULATORS).

Nearly $6 BILLION OF YOUR MONEY is NATIONALLY earmarked for the program. And an unprecedented agreement has been reached with our largest lenders. This according to the CRA (Community Redevelopment Agency) who admit that those PESKY INDIVIDUAL INVESTORS are getting in the way of the government being able to take over the housing. HORRORS!!!!!!!!!! How could we still believe we HAVE THAT FREEDOM??????????Didn't that other GOVERNMENT ESTEEMED NACA group bully that idea out of existence when they corralled people by telling them "WE LOVES YOU--WE HELPS YOU". (that's a line from an old play pointing up the idea of an enabling that "ain't").

This is a little off the Economic agenda although for fishermen or beach goers, it's right on! Remember when??????????we used to go to the beach and any dead fish was up for grabs for bait (AS LONG IT DIDN'T STINK?????) Well maybe you never used the expression "EITHER FISH OR CUT BAIT" but trust me it was freedom to be enjoyed.

NOT NOW. A poor sixty year old fisherman saw the BAIT OR FISH OF A LIFETIME on Florida's beach. A DEAD WHALE. And he preceded to CUT BAIT or a MEAL and got detained by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission for mutilating an endangered species.

IT WAS ENDANGERED ALL RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!! IT WAS DEAD AS A DOORNAIL but it seems he interfered with the Government Agencies' right to examine WHOLE ENDANGERED SPECIES. A partial WHALE SIMPLY WON'T DO. Give me a break Government officials, LIGHTEN UP!!!!!!!!!!EASE UP!!!!!!!!!!and try to see THE TREES INSTEAD OF THE FOREST. The man liked fish and saw a REALLY BIG DEAD FISH--LET HIM FEED ON IT.

Okay, last but not least and the economics of this are subtle but costly. The controversy over a Mosque BEING BUILT near the site of the Twin Towers in New York where mainly CHRISTIANS AND JEWS BUT MOSTLY EASTENERS were killed (very illegal in this country) by the ARABS (where such activity is welcomed and encouraged by the KORAN) has been unofficially rejected as a plan by two-thirds of NEW YORKERS. A less controversial site has been offered in lower Manhattan farther from Ground Zero. That sounds like a better plan but I believe I have come up with the best plan.

PUT THE MOSQUE IN NEW JERSEY and let the Arabs and the Mafia duke it out!!!!!!!!!! Think of the savings in Federal Court costs over the years?????????The Mafia has always claimed to be very pro-American and religious (except when it gets in the way of profit or vendetta) and the Arabs claim that they must purify the land of INFIDELS (except when it gets in the way of profits or vendettas) so I feel they have much common ground on which to co-exist (or not).

Cheers, Connie