UAW Greed

And now, at the bottom of the ninth, how can the American public have even a smither or respect for the American automobile manufacturing indsustry when the UAW will not even make the most basic concession.... a wage cut. Considering how many Americans are out of work, like a half a million first time unemployment benefit applications last month alone, can't even read between the lines and bend a little. It looks like a bitter cocktail of poor management from Detroit and good ol' fashioned American greed has all but done in Detroit. How many American's do you suppose just flipped Detroit the 'bird' tonight? Lemme tell ya'... I've been job hunting for three months and I'd build unsellable Hummers for $13.00 an hour without thinking twice. I say burn down your local union office ASAP!

Crooks, Schnooks and Ex-hotdog Stand Operators

I don't much about the PR game when it comes to making a headline, or, at least trying to create one. If you're a true celebrity it probably doesn't take much. If your a criminal or, well on the way to becoming one, it is appearing that it is almost as easy.

Yesterday's news headline of three flunkies buying rolls of quarters to hog up the prison pay phone looking for pardons. Timing doesn't exactly become these three. Appears that Bernard Ebbers, the ex-World Com CEO, Conrad Black, a big time publisher who bilked many for much and, the poster child for Wall Street excess... good ol' Michael Milken are reaching out to President George for pardons.

Holiday cheer comes in many forms and, yeah, getting out of jail would improve most anyone's disposition on life but, don't these clowns follow the news while being in the clink? Anyone in the financial market is probably not on anyone in the publilc sectors 'make-a-wish' list. These boys should've been rattling their pity pails during Thanksgiving when the prez was pardoning turkeys. If they recieved their pardons then, well, the humor element of it all might of made it a true and possibly tolerable PR event.

Whether these three are even worthy of a pardon, I'm voting for the idea that they should make room for the three stooge CEO's from Detroit who managed to pretty much run our domestic automobile manufacturing right into the ground.

I think these six should restart their careers at 'Hotdog Stand Buisness Practice 101'... preferably on any street corner in Somalia!

Which President-elect is on Duty?

And so, I have to ask myself, which president-elect is actually on duty these days? Todays stock market activity is on the up and up merely on the notion that president-elect Obama is wasting no time on an economic revovery package. His deftness at assembling a strong and varied team is impressive and, you have to wonder, why is it that the present presidential occupant can't shake up the economy in a positive way? I do believe he is still collecting a paycheck every week for the job he was elected to do, or wing his way through. It's a shame yet encouraging all the same time that our best and brightest days will begin again in about another month. And remember, we also saw this same response on Wall Street just on the announcement of our new treasury secretary. Let's only hope that President Obama might actually have a secret office in an undisclosed location at the White House. It certainly appears that he and his team deserve one!