Socialism

My friend Anabelle put this short economic lesson on her blog, I think it is great. You should read it.

Emperor Obama

I must admit that I was dubious when Obama was elected, but he gets scarier everyday. He goes about throwing money around like it is his, not ours. Equally scary is his crazy idea of budgeting. Essential to his budget is that the US economy will magically be stronger than ever before two years from now. He is like one of those people who puts everything on their credit card because they assume that somehow next year they will be earning twice as much money. Problem is that rarely happens and so they go bankrupt instead and we, as a country, are well on our way. The head of the European Union said that Obama's budget was 'the road to hell' and he was right. China has loaned us tons of money and they are starting to call it in, only we can't pay it. Heck, we can't even pay the interest on it. We as a country are bankrupt and he is increasing government spending by trillions. Wake up Obama and live within our means.

He is also starting to issue orders to companies, as if he knew what he was talking about. To bad he has never run a business or anything for that matter. I guess he also forgot that we live in a democracy, at least we did the last time I checked. Maybe last night the US turned into the First Holy Empire of Obama and all the businesses are his. Yikes! Pinch me quick.

A Victory for Extravagence

I skim the NY Times headlines most days and tend to read a little of this and that, but today I found something I just had to share. It is a laptop with a 17" screen (the largest you can get) that has an additional 10.6" pop-out screen. It also has a built-in stylus pad, which I would love to have and think every laptop should have. It is described as being for the photographer/graphic artist crowd (you mean a computer other than a Mac will run photoshop...no way!), so I guess we need one and had better just buy it because it will dramatically increase our productivity. :)

Anyway, at $4,000+ it seemed just a hair out of our current budget, but since the ecomony is booming and and everyone else has tons of cash to burn I bet they will sell like hot cakes or at least they might sell two or three. I can think of plenty of people who'd pony up for them, such as Bill Gates and Obama and...well, I guess they'll only sell two. Way to go Lenovo! That's what I call some audacious hope.