economic disaster or market corrections

Do you want to have additional taxes taken from your earnings, future earnings, to cover a host of fraudulant activities, committed by the financial enterprises, AIG & Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac. ? 95% of all mortgages are being paid timely. 5% of mortgages are in arrears. Why should we allow our tax dollars to be spent to bail out that 5%, and bail out the corrupt business practices of AIG, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac? The Government has no money. The Government takes money from you, your family, me and my family, then spreads the money around in a manner that is beneficial to them, not you and me. I say open the windows on Wall St, and let the nice people jump, without a parachute.

fools for politicians

I have read this weeks column by Mr. Walter E. Williams, a retired economics professor. Mr. Williams provides a guide and information for the would be voter. The President of the United States cannot create jobs. The President of the United States cannot raise or lower taxes. The President cannot be held responsible for budget deficits or surpluses. The president cannot spend a dime that that Congress does not first appropriate. A good civics lesson. Mr. Williams ends this weeks column with a quote from an English philosopher Herbert Spencer. The quote: "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools." This is thought provoking as we near election day, and follow the news as to what Congress is doing.

Gas Prices

In the last week the price of a gallon of gas has gone up almost 50 cents a gallon. I know that a lot of this has to do with the hurricane and down refinery rigs, but it almost seems unfair. The oil companies are still making the same huge profits, yet it is the consumer that gets hurt in the end.  The rapid increase saves the profits of the oil companies, but the price gauging is incredible.  I find this unethical that the general public is the victim in all of this. The oil companies should take a hit for this and not the public. Instead of big business taking a small hit it once again gets put on the shoulders of the American public. So my question is why can the government bail out companies like Bear Sterns, and Freddie Mac, but the all these price hardships get put on the middle class.

8 Weeks until Election Day.

Ethics, morality, fairness, equality are all issues in the ongoing presidential campaign. The Democratic Party has turned this into a Obama vs Palin match. The truth is the election is an Obama vs McCain toss up(sic), no pun intended. It appears that all sense of fairness, equality, morality, and ethics has been left in the drawer, and the political medica continues to churn out it's spin-speak. Which view should we apply, before voting? The Utilitarian View; The Libertarian Approach; Nozick's Theory of Justice; or, Rawls's Theory of Justice( The Veil of Ignorance) which is applicable to most voters.

Addition to Art's Blog (scroggins)

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/09/01/palin-pregnant.html?ref=rss#socialcomments-submit

^ Here is the link to the article.
I believe the only reason the daughter is getting married to this young man is due to the election. Is it right for the family to make their daughter to feel obligated to marry the young man so they don't look like trash? There were pretty much only two choices the family could make in their situation; have an abortion (ha ha yeah right they are republicans) and try their best to conceal it or make the daughter get married. Now, it appears to me that they attempted to take the lesser of the two risks on the campaign. Is it "ethical" for the family to have a "shotgun wedding" to prevent a total loss for the republican party? They are two 17 year old children who in fact probably don't REALLY love each other to begin with, but are forced to be legally bound to make their family look "politically correct." I suppose if the teenage couple can at least hold out til after November it will make voters a little more content with the situation. But imagine what voters would think if the mother chose another route? It would be too damming for the campaign for Palin to even risk.

Ethical Politics

After reading yesterday about how the Repblican Vp nominee has a 17 year old daughter who is pregnant, I did not know how to react. On one end I want my politicians to  live up  moral and ethical ideals.  Yet on the other hand, this is a real problem in the country and it will be interesting to see how it is dealt with in a public forum. I am on the fence because as unfortunate as society's moral have become we still don't want to admit problems in public to show we have failed morally.