Intrinsic Value vs Do I give-a-sh*t ??

Gold. . . Gold. . .Gold. . I love Gold. But here is a funny thing, Why can I get up to ten times the face value for certain pieces of bad old vintage paper money ??

Remember the story of this guy named Joe that now lives in a degraded society with no Sears, no Kmarts, no Krogers ? Joe is wandering throw the woods with all his money , starving. Joe comes across a man cooking venison over his camp fire. Joe trades hundred paper dollars for a bite of food. Joes friend then throws his new property of paper money into the fire for added warmth. What if Joe had offered gold instead ? Gold is a crappy heat source , just saying. . . Joe may have gone hungry that day. . .

Value is not a thing. . .it is an expression of an idea-of-caring.

The GOP reminds me of children fighting over toys.

Re Romney's refusal to share tax info, I bet it's because he tithes to his church 10% of only the earnings he pays taxes on, not 10% of all his income. Fearing humiliation in the eyes of Mormons outweighs embarrassment before voters--the most reactionary of whom praise him for screwing the IRS.

Also, I have been proven !! The camera person IS an instigator. . I knew it !!

Tell me--if, according to Republican party policy, abortion is not allowed under any circumstance, what will women who have genetic testing when they are pregnant and discover they are carrying a horribly deformed child do? I guess the Party will force them to give birth to the child. Who will pay for the medical bills needed to keep this child alive and for the care that this child will require? Will this be left up to the states to provide for this child--most of the states are stressed to the max financially without taking on this extra financial burden. Will the parents be required to care for this child themselves? How can this happen when most middle class families need both parents to work so that they can pay their bills. This is just one facet of the "no abortions allowed" policy that the GOP is pushing.

Regarding Friday's report about the fear that President Obama would allow a few crumbs of humanitarian aid to trickle down to our poor, I think you could do an important service by informing the public about US welfare. The word "welfare" always referred specifically to General Assistance and AFDC cash benefits. (When convenient, we can expand the meaning to include food stamps, Medicaid, public schools -- anything that is collectively funded by taxpayer dollars, for the common good. But commonly, that word meant cash aid to the poor.) The only reason President Obama will not cut either General Assistance or AFDC, no matter how much the middle class demands it, is that these programs were ended by Bill Clinton by 1996. They are gone. Over. Nothing left to cut. TANF, for a limited number of qualified families, is a work program, not welfare. The govt provides small subsidies (food stamps) to workers whose pay keeps them far below the poverty line. This saves employers truckloads of money that they once had to pay out in wages and benefits, when they still had to compete for workers. Food stamp recipients pay for their own food stamps either before or after a period of time on food stamps. They do so via their own taxes. Food stamp recipients are required to work (excluding the elderly and the disabled, who were added to food stamp rolls a few years ago). President Obama remains a pragmatic man, and there is NO chance that he would or could allow basic humanitarian aid to be restored to America's poor.

The middle class demanded that government get tough on the poor. How tough? By the early 1970s, extreme (i.e., life-threatening) poverty in the US was almost non-existent, because of welfare. In the few years since Bill Clinton "reformed" welfare, extreme poverty in the US has doubled. Infant mortality rates among our poor have been climbing, while the life expectancy of our poor has actually fallen below that of some Third World countries. These policies kill. The author of these policies, Bill Clinton, will be a lead speaker at this year's Dem Convention. Liberals (if not progressives) like him. That's today's reality, ensuring that regardless of how decent President Obama is, there is no chance that he will restore basic aid to our desperately poor.

Oh poop..

Regarding the Oak Ridge Boys private event for the big dollar donors. Just last week those very same Oak Ridge Boys appearing for the Billionaires during the RNC, just performed at the Gallia County Fair in Ohio and this fair is not a big fair. It is held in a county with a population of around 30,000! So I am guessing that Romney AND the RNC is going the VERY inexpensive route to "honor" their big donors. I was literally, physically ROTFLMAO at this news.

Thought everyone might find it interesting that even during his nomination convention Mitt went the saving money route rather than spending a little cash for a bigger name act. Of course I suppose it is possible that the only music group that would perform at anything associated with the GOP was the Oak Ridge Boys and Hank Williams Jr. but Hank would be too controversial for the RNC and it would also mean the Romney Campaign and the Republican Party would become even more associated than they already are, with all of his moronic, venomous and hate filled statements about President Obama.

MEDICARE: Obama quote today--The son of a single mother, Obama said his family background taught him the value of programs like Medicare to his grandparents. "I saw how important things like Medicare and Social Security were in their lives," he said.

"And I saw the peace of mind it gave them."

My wife and I are 75. What we're really concerned about is someone fooling around with Medicare and ruining it fo our 49 and 50 year old kids who are going to need it in short order. Of course, we need it. But parents never stop worrying, never. So Obama and Team: you are missing a bet by not bringing this point up: we're all worried about the GOP completely fouling up the benefits of Social Security and Medicare that every generation will need. Easy to meddle when one has a quarter of a billion dollars in the bank.

I am dying to hear Rachel interview Meghan Mc Cain!