I've been kicking around in my head lately what the price of our behavior is going to be ( Read more... )

I made a comment on Digg today about the state California is in. Someone posted that analysts think that it will take California until 2014 to recover, and I replied that if we recovered that soon, I was going to be -really- surprised.

That got me to thinking -- what would be a way that California -could- recover itself? My thoughts are below:

( Fixing California, after the jump )

There's been a lot of talk recently about Obama's healthcare plan. Is it necessary? Is there going to be some kind of bureaucrat standing between me and my doctor who is worse than the profit-motivated HMO bureaucrat who currently stands between me and my doctor? But mostly, people are asking: Will it cost too much? How can we afford it ( Read more... )

God, I'm feeling chatty, lately.

Really, I kinda need to vent. I realized that after I spent god knows how long practically yelling on the phone to nickel -- not because I was remotely mad at him, but because I was mad at my state, and my state government, over the budget fiasco. Specifically, I'm mad about what they're cutting. And you should be, ( Read more... )

As it turns out, Barack Obama directly gave back to me and nickel for voting for him. About $8 million of the stimulus money that California got is going to his school district, allowing them to limit the number of people they're laying off to only 300, instead of like 1200. nickel is too valuable (teaching two classes, one of which they'd have to hire a ( Read more... )

Am I good, or what?

Some banks want to return government moneyThe essence of the article is that there are some banks who want to pay back the bailouts they've already gotten because the scrutiny of being "beholden" to the government is too much. Let me be clear: Banks that were/are teetering on the edge want to pay the money back to the ( Read more... )

Well, it's looking like maybamaybe the stimulus plan is going to get through, and the economists I've been reading are really unhappy with it. In fact, Paul Krugman is downright furious. (Read his blog for more on his problems with the deal. He has attacked Republicans for being complete assholes about the whole thing and whining about " ( Read more... )