Opening Stuff:
I drove along Route 1 on the Coast of Maine Friday, just as I had done 10 years ago within hours after the Attack. What I still remember most vividly -- after the devastation, after the anger, after the horror of man's evil against man -- What I remember most was the resolve of the American spirit, the innate patriotism of people. By the time I had reached Route 1 in Brunswick and North, in the immediate hours after, before the buildings had crashed, was the highway for the next fifty miles lined with American flags and signs, "America the Beautiful", "God Bless America", "United we Stand."
How come that when the Government says $448 Billion, I immediately think One Trillion.
The Question:
Name the 10 largest US Banks.
The Headlines:
--America Remembers.--Sox Fading.
--Global Stocks Blasted; US Futures Bleak.
--Greece has Enough Cash Until October.
--Daffy Supporters Putting Up Stiff Resistance
--Study Says Sponge Bob Dangerous To 4 Year Old Mental Heath.
Many of the the comic Strips in the Sunday papers were devoted to remembering 911. My favorite was in the strip "Baby Blues."
There's mini undercurrent pushing for Jeb Bush to step up to the plate in the Prez race. Didn't we just finish a rumored groundswell for Rick Perry? Are the pundits and pushers tired of him already? Will too much media make fickleness "ADD" America's political destiny?
I wonder how the nutritionists would view my suggestion that school kids be allowed to enjoy as I did making sugar-butter bread for snacks in the class? Yum!
On Thursday when "Laser Beam" gave his make-labor-unions-relevant-again speech, the International Longshoremen in Longview area of Washington (State) were taking baseball bats and crowbars (Ouch) to the shins and heads of security fighting for their lives and police coming to the rescue at ports in Tacoma and Seattle. They destroyed trains and emptied ready to be shipped grain stocks. Are those innocent dock security guards the "Sons a bitches" Hoffa Jr. was talking about? (Note, this wildcat, barbarian work action was for the most part unreported on the nightly news or in newspapers.)
Will the Pats tonight manage to repel the disturbing images of my fading Red Sox. Actually it's beginning to feel like the good old days.
The consensus of Macro economists on the AJA is that it will produce modest short term economic growth. They're looking at far below robust growth of 1.3% GDP for 2012 which would reduce the jobless from 8.9% to 8.6%. The short term small biz benefits would fade to zero by the end of 2012 giving us about a 0.3 GDP growth rate for 2013. The consensus is that it does nothing to improve or repair rather substantial inter-structural problems, but does stem the possibility of reentering recession. And looking at the above, it most definitely could give us four more years for you know who.
Notre Dame fans across the country are ready to jump off of high buildings.
Some governors across the US of A are saying there are plenty of jobs openings around, but the skills of many of the unemployed just aren't sufficient to meet the job requirements much less the challenges. Tax incentives to hire are useless if the hire-ee can't do the work. Maybe they should create a bill to take all of those teachers to which 0-man promised jobs and start the Retrain Adults Corps.
So-called experts on various matters and government officials seem to have little awareness of the acuity of the citizen's mind. But then, they don't possess the common sense of most people.
The world would be a better place if we also didn't live with sheep.
If it does anything, the Jobs Act will certainly perpetuate bad, irresponsible, over-spending,. over-promising may State Governments like California and RI.
Almost Near: Chapter 39 continues. --It was obvious Dante wasn't that nervous -- laughing comfortably, walking arm in arm with Samantha into the restaurant. Tucker ambled behind the twosome. His face was inert. While his thoughts manged to flicker, conjuring up a distant image of Audrey, he was focused on the backs of the heads in front of him. He seemed torn between what he had found in Louisiana, and what he seemed to be losing from his 18 years of romantic mourning.
When they reached the table Dante stopped and came around to pull out a chair for Sam and then usher Tucker into the seat next to her. He walked around and sat opposite the twosome. He opened the menu briefly and set it down. "So, Sam, tell me about Little Rock." Tucker stiffened, and he felt Samantha lean into him. No, attach herself to him.
Sam's expression didn't change unusually, but Tucker felt something retreating in her body. "Little Rock?"
Dante peered at her, brown Italian eyes locked into hers. She fidgeted. "Didn't you tell me you lived there?"
Tucker could now see that Dante had put on his lawyer hat. "I think I told you I thought Sam had lived in Little Rock." This is not what Dante wanted. Samantha did. She moved closer into the protection of her knight.
One of the disturbing feelings I get while reading Letters to the Editor in various newspapers in different regions is the seething, naive anger that so many have against anybody they perceive as rich, or having been successful. When the fact remains that many of those perceived rich are just regular people who worked hard, saved well and managed their lives responsibly.
The Answer:
The embattled BoA is the largest followed by JP Morgan Chase, Citi, Wells-Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, MetLife, Taunus, HSBC, US Bancorp. Bank of NY Mellon, PNC Fin, Capital One, TD Bank, State Street, Allly Fin, Suntrust, BB&T, American Express and at #20 -- Providence RI's Citizens Fin. MetLife?
Among the things on the humorous side that pop out of the ObamaSpeak was, "And everything in this bill is paid for." And then he looked at the Super Committee (SC) telling and you are going to do it. As usual he has no clue, no plan. Just rhetoric. But, hey maybe there is an opportunity for some irony in this massive Public Employee Unions Bailout program. How about if the SC recommends eliminating the useless federal Departments of Education, Energy and Environmental Protection. That would go a long way of reducing the costs of living and doing business in addition to a significant reduction in the national angst! The National Association of Psychiatrists would complain.
The most moving thing I saw yesterday was at the Portsmouth RI Fire Station. It was simple,m yet robust, and it got to me.
Well time to put on my U.S.A. baseball cap and go hit a couple of golf balls.
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