For the last few months all I have heard is about the “Bail Out Bill” aka “TARP” and how it was supposed to help homeowners with creative crazy insane loans with interest increases, arms and the who know what to be able to refinance. The biggy’s stepped up to the plate and took the welfare from the government but not many homeowners were helped. In fact quite the opposite, foreclosures have been at an all time high. But the insane thing, if there could be any more insanity is that the media blasted that you only qualify for aid if you are 90 days late on your loans. Then they were surprised when people who were current but in theses types of loans said, hey, I want some of that aid so guess what I’ll just QUIT making my house payments.

How could anyone in the media, banks, Wall Street or the North Pole NOT know that was coming. Well, this has not gone over very well, ya think! So now if you don’t have a 760 credit score you can’t get refinanced or even a piece of bubble gum for that matter.

Over a million people have lost their jobs or if they have a job they may be taking a pay reduction. Prices for groceries are sky rocketing and gas prices are on there way back up. It’s easy to say there are few out there with credit scores that our not tanking so I guess the massive amount of people with less then perfect credit will soon be on the streets. That’s pretty sad.

I can’t write this without saying that many of these people did not qualify for the home they were in but a corrupt bank or lender did some magic and got it done. So to be telling them “no loan for you”! After they created this mess is outlandish!

I think the government needs to take a serious look at themselves because people aren’t taking them very seriously. The IRS comes out and says they are going to be a kinder gentler IRS and will work with you to pay any taxes due. I wonder why?  Because the American people have watched Congress and the President hand out the tax payers money to every bankrupt company on the planet and the economy is still in the toilet, yes that could be it!

Maybe the IRS and the politicians are realizing that MAIN STREET ( hate that name, but oh well) does not fear the IRS or the government anymore as they have shown us how uneducated and unqualified they are to be representing the people and our money. Since millions have lost everything and Bernie Madoff lives in a Penthouse paying their taxes is not that important. Why should we trust them with our hard earned money after what they have done.

Obama keeps telling us he is going to spend even more and put the country back to work but all the jobs seem to be road crew jobs. Financial, automakers as well as small business’ that have gone under can’t pay their bills building freeways. It’s crazy!

I feel there is more insanity to come. With all this talk about all the jobs being created by rebuilding our streets and highways maybe President Obama will make a law that your credit score doesn’t matter you just have to commit to working a certain amount of hours on “the road crews” each month and then you can get a loan. Yes, it sounds insane but everything else is just as nuts!

I just don’t see how you can fix this with any of the ideas coming out of Washington.

Walmart did lower there prices through the Christmas season but the first week of January they have gone up almost one dollar to two dollars on almost everything from cat food to t-shirts to try and get it back. That was a low blow. They lowered them so the American public would spend through Christmas this year but who cares if you can afford to feed your family or even make it to next Christmas! Bad bad Walmart!

I have lost faith, never really had it, but I even feel worse about the people running this country! I am tired just thinking about it.

Joe the Plumber, GO AWAY! No one cares and please when you bend over pull up your pants….

Sarah Palin, I once admired you but my Gosh please, you are blowing it!

Congress should have to be live on minimum wage.

SAG STRIKE~Give me a break, I think it should go back to the way it was when you worked for the studios and if you acted like an idiot you were fired and never heard from again.

Target made a claim that they are matching with Walmart or even going as far as price lower then the giant. I found that interesting so I set out today to see if it was true. I went to a Walmart and a Target that are on the same street back to back. So these prices may be in that area and not the same anywhere else. I plan to check others but here’s the results of today’s adventure:

Walmart: Vicks NyQuil 10oz or 12 Caplets Box     $5.27

Target: Vicks NyQuil 10oz Bottle or 12 Caplets Box  $5.29

 Walmart: My Little Pony Friends (Name seemed different at Target but same thing) $5.64

Targets: My Little Pony Fav Friends (same thing)  $5.64

Walmarts: Hannah Montana Jammin Electric Guitar with Doll, each store I went to seemed to have different selections, the names and items not the same or had the same additions like the doll.

Walmarts Price: $20.00

Targets: Hannah Montana Electric Guitar without Doll. Didn’t have the combo.

Targets Price: $19.99

Walmarts: Elmo Live $59.88

Targets: Elmo Live  $59.99

Walmarts: Fabreeze Air Effects 9.7 oz Bottle $2.50

Targets: Fabreeze 9.7 ox Bottle $2.54

Walmarts: Crisco Pure Vegetable Oil 64 oz (2 Qt) $5.94

Targets: Crisco 64 oz (2Qt) Pure Vegetable Oil $5.94

Walmarts: Special K 14 oz Box $2.88

Targets Special K 14 Oz Box $2.89

I also found that the Target I went to did carry an 8 inch portable DVD Players but did carry Audiovox 6.2 inch and a brand I was not familiar with NEXTPLAY 7 inch portable DVD Players for $99.99 to Walmarts 8 inch DVD Players made by Philips and RCA for $89.99. The 8 inch seemed like a better deal but it depends on what you want I guess.

The price differences were not that significant only by a dime or quarter here and there but Walmart seemed to be lower if there was a price difference. So are they doing what they say, well, they have matched some and a few cents higher on stuff so yes for Target is trying to di what they claimed. I did notice Walmart was packed and Target was empty. These two stores sit back to back. I may venture out to see how they compete when they aren’t so close. One thing I wanted to mention in both stores I overheard people saying they had been to Target to check their price in Walmart and vice versa while in Target while in the TOY isles. It maybe because they are right next to each other. I will be listening to that when the stores are a trip and not a hop…

One thing I noticed about Walmart they had the Salvation Army ringing it’s bell and people greeting you at the door. It’s a friendly atmosphere. Target is more of a cold atmosphere, they no longer allow The Salvation Army to ring the bell because they say that their customers don’t like to be distracted and you’ll never be greeted at the door, you’re lucky to get a shopping cart at times. I feel if they are going for the kind of customer that the Salvation Army Bell Ringers bother then they are on the wrong track. People spend more when they feel a warmth and giving feeling and I have always found that bell to be that, reminding the reason for the season is to give and be with loved ones, help one another. If they want people that are annoyed by the warmth of helping another they have a rude awakening. Just one of my opinions.

Did we interrupt her cocktail hour. She seemed like she didn’t have a clue as to what she was even there for, stuttering her words, not finishing sentences and just plain blank stairs at the press. That press conference for the automakers had been planned all day and she wasn’t even sure if they had received the automakers buisness plans, she had to ask the press. Hmmm I hope the automakers, even if some think they don’t deserve it, get better attention then what she displayed today. So many jobs, futures and lives depend on the full attention of these lawmakers.

Today as I listen to the media acting bewildered that the stock market dropped over 600 points.  They seemed shocked and amazed. I wondered if they has heard about the awful 3 day terrorist attack in the financial district in India where many gunmen, not suicide bombers took terror to a new level and attacked 10 locations and weeded out westerners to kill to hold hostage. They can try to say it was a Pakistan/India thing but it seemed very focused on the westerners visiting or living in the area. The news that is coming out of there seems very confusing. I don’t believe 10 gunmen did all that alone.

The reports of 2 to 4 gunmen in each building and the went into 10 locations around ther same time. That doesn’t add up. Then the continuing reports that they killed 1 or 2 gunmen and they still had one in the building. I was counting. Not sure what happened there but I do know we are not being told the truth for whatever reasons but Americans are smart so I was not surprised when the stock market took a dip. I expected it. It happens after ever huge act of terror and that was a new huge form of terrorism that I am quite frankly pretty concerned about it. Those men were well trained and if it was true and there were only 10 and they held off the police and army commandos for 3 days then “HOUSTON WE GOT A PROBLEM”! These guys were like Bruce Willis in the “Die Hard” movies and well like 9/11 it was something out of the movies and just plain unbelievable.

I hope we get more clarification about this situation. It’s just to soon to look at the damage and the amount killed and wounded and believe any news that is coming out of that area on that topic for a while as with everything we’ll get the real truth long after the event and usually too late.

The economy is in the worse shape it’s been in I can’t remember when so when you tell me a man is trampled to death to save a few dollars I should not be shocked but I am. Times have changed and people have become so materialistic. Stores are marking things down so far they are having to lay people off to make even a small profit. It’s just making things worse. The death of a store employee is just unthinkable. I am saddened by this event and hope that people stop and take a look around. It was not food they were stomping that man for but big screen TVs. No one was starving or was gonna die if they did not get it. But because they acted like idiots someone did die for a non essential item.

My prayers go out to the family of the man killed and all that were injured and I also hope and pray even though this has happened before that we learn from this finally and due better planning with door stoppers sales IE more security and coordination to protect the employees and the customers as well.

While traveling I saw a news story about a judgement owed to Don Nelson of $6.3 Million dollars was awarded to him from the Mavericks and Mark Cuban. Don Nelson built the team that took the Mavericks to the top, it was not Mark Cuban, he just got in the way. If Coach Nelsons contract says Mr. Cuban owes him the money then he must. Hmmmmm sounds like the SEC situation, “I didn’t due it!” Cuban was a geek that got lucky and stomped on many people to get ahead, he has no conscious, in my opinion.

The man who would do anything to get on TV now hides from the press as the world sees the real MARK CUBAN. Doesn’t seem to be a pretty picture, once again, my opinion.

My refused to speak to the media but did say he won’t pay the money OWED to Coach Nelson. He would appeal it forever even if he has to pay interest. Only a real jerk would do that and well we are talking about Mark Cuban. Remember Mr. Cuban what goes around comes around! Good luck with that!

Oh I promise if this guy shows his arrogance I will definitely post it here he just makes me fume acting as if he’s “all that”! News flash ~ He’s NOT!

Mark Cuban has been pretty full of himself since he pulled off that Broadcast.com deal with Yahoo. Yeah, we hear all about that great deal what you don’t hear is there may have been some casualties left in the wake. He has never really been a man who cared about what he does or who he hurts to benefit “himself”.

Thinking he was bulletproof he has been fined $1,455,000.00 from the NBA for numerous things. Yes, due to lack of self control he has been slapped by the NBA many times. In the beginning every time you heard the name Mavericks he was right there to the point of making a total fool of himself, in fact not only the NBA had enough, his players were getting a little fed up with him too and well, we hear very little from him these days which I have to say is fantastic!

He went from computer geek who desperately wanted to be actor but just didn’t have it. Then overnight with a few people stomped on to do it, so I’ve heard, he became a billionaire. It was so apparent this was “new” money, not old. A person born and raised in wealth has a certain class about them, they may not be nice, but they are sure not tacky. He made a commercial for a Dallas Radio Station who was giving away a million dollars or so. It was rediculios, I believe he popped out of his new jet saying “you can be a millionaire like me”. Then posed for a mail out for a Tanning company that said “Be Tan like Mark Cuban” oh and we can’t forget his flopped TV reality show where he was giving away a million dollars to a total stranger. The TV show must have been that part of him that so wanted to be an actor and well…It was a major “dud” like his acting career. I could go on and on about this man, he’s no angel and if I had a choice to be wealthy and be him or homeless on the street I’d chose the street.

Now he is being accused of “insider” trading. His lawyer, who seems to think he wrote the laws, was on TV saying he was gonna make the Securities Exchange Commission look like idiots in court and Cuban would emerge smelling like a rose. The arrogance of the attorney was so much like Cuban, I had to take a second look to make sure he was not Cuban himself. The lawyer stated that, to a man like the “Almighty” Mark Cuban $750,000 was nothing, then you have to ask yourself why Cuban did the trade to keep himself from losing it. If I smell anything it’s a “rat”! The Judge should be asking that question as well. Plus, “he was not an insider”, where has that lawyer been, the term”insider” has been changed drastically over the years.

So why does Cuban think the laws are for everybody else and not him? If the SEC has been investigating this for over two years they had to have something. The gall of Mr. Cuban accusing them of throwing their power around. Cuban has been trying to do that, at times succeeding, ever since he made his fortune. The SEC is doing there job and I feel he is getting off light. I wish they’d humble him with a few years behind bars. He deserves far more then that in my opinion.

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Well it looks like the only change we have is the “President”. President Elect Barack Obama is not changing a thing. We are getting the “old Clinton administration” with Obama in charge. As I recall he was impeached and Al Gore lost due the mess he made of things…Hmmmm same reason Senator McCain lost, current President being a Republican has made a real mess of the entire world! Wow the wheels on the bus go round and round!

All those campaign promises, what about them, with the insiders of Washington who have not ever made an effort to make such drastic changes in the past, why would they now? Oh and lets not forget the Democrats have been in control of Congress the last 2 years and well…They call this session the LAME DUCK session, I’d call the last 2 years pretty LAME as well…

I can’t wait to see the first 100 days to see who is really in charge President Elect Obama or the “same ole street gang” who ran the country with party man President Bill Clinton. Will it be a tug of war or what? I am so disappointed, I was so excited about the gold, silver, cupcakes and candy bars that soon would be falling from the sky! I really love cupcakes!!!! Well I am not gonna give up yet, miracles can happen, he did get elected, or was that a PURCHASE! Who knows…Whatever it was I want my perfect world, my utopia! He promised! He better deliver he’s the “Savior” there is no way he can back down now, right?

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