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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Election Fraud: A Vote For Romney Is A Vote For Obama

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Why bother to bus in loads of ineligible voters when all you have to do is "default" to Obama?

From WND:

Are voting machines not properly recording the intended votes of American citizens this election cycle?
With early voting underway already, more examples are being found across the nation of problems at polling places.
The latest comes from Marion County in the battleground state of Ohio, where Joan Stevens tried to vote for Mitt Romney Monday on an electronic touch screen, but Barack Obama’s name kept lighting up. [full article]
“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.” 
― Joseph Stalin

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Presidential Fiats

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Today is moving day for my sons' business, so I'll be lending a couple hands... and legs... and back.  Meanwhile, try this for a great post:

This Presidential Election, Don’t Forget Obama’s Imperial Fiats

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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Blacks Fed Up With Obama

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This via Rebel Pundit and Hillbuzz:



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Latest Political Ad: A Joke, A Spoof, Or Just Really Bad Taste?

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Via The Right Scoop.  Take a look.  My reaction was that this was a great spoof about the voter fraud being perpetrated by the Democratic Party.  It certainly won't appeal to "the greatest generation"... or even the generation after that.

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Obama: Benghazi Debacle Just Gets Worse

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Below are the contents of an email I received from another blogger, Jason, in whose integrity and veracity I have full confidence.  However, Jason was forwarding an email he received, so I can only say that the contents appear plausible given the other information available on this subject.  If there is even partial truth to the allegations contained therein, it is a damning indictment of a sitting president.
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This tragedy regarding Benghazi gets uglier by the hour. There is one thing I can assure you because I’ve been in a similar situation as the Benghazi attack when bullets were fired at my office at a U.S. Embassy. In my case the attacks continued not for 7 hours, as in the case of Benghazi, but for almost 48 hours. What always happens during such an attack is that reporting on the ground from Embassy officials continues with messages being transmitted to Washington DC in what is known as CRITIC format. That is the highest level precedence for any type of official communication from a military or government facility. When an official government officer prepares such a message in CRITIC format it automatically goes to NSOC (National Security Operations Center) at NSA where it then is automatically reviewed and immediately distributed to military command and control centers and senior government watch offices throughout the U.S. government worldwide. First on that CRITIC list for distribution is the White House Operations Center. I generated about 10 to 15 of these critic messages during my 33 year career during world crisis situations. Many senior officers have never even seen a critic message and certainly never generated one. You don’t generate or transmit a CRITIC message lightly. Sending one turns on bells and whistles all over Washington DC and major military command centers around the globe. Generally only the senior officer at a facility is authorized to permit sending such a message. There is no doubt that the Benghazi Consulate must have sent several of these CRITIC messages when they were being overrun by Al Qaeda terrorists on 9/11 2012.
Having said that I think it’s important to understand that there is literally no way the president or vice president of the United States did not know all that was happening in Benghazi, Libya as it was happening. Every aspect of that attack which killed four Americans, including the Ambassador, would have been related to the president in real time. If it was not, then there has been a very serious break down in the way our American government has functioned from the time I began working in 1964 right up to the present. There is no way that the president did not know everything that was going on during this attach. While I now feel reasonable certain that president Obama will lose in the upcoming election, I also feel that there is sufficient evidence to bring serious charges against him, including impeachment for dereliction of duty for not authorizing aid and assistance to the three requests made by the Benghazi Consulate for military support.  Again I want to stress that the CRITIC message reporting format has been around since about 1948 following the Bogotazo Affair (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogotazo)
 when a U.S. Secretary of State came under attack in Bogota, Colombia. The reporting of the incident was delayed or inappropriately handled. So during the cold war and presumably right up to the present, the CRITIC reporting procedure worked exceptionally well. A CRITIC message is supposed to reach the White House within two minutes from the time it is first transmitted by the originating officer or Agency. The surest way to be fired from federal government service is not to understand CRITIC reporting procedures or fail to report to provide timely reporting on a CRITIC situation.
So did the president know everything there was to know about the Benghazi attack on 9/11?  You can be 100% assured Obama was informed of every single detail in the greatest minutiae. HE KNEW IT ALL and he knew it in real time! He and his administrative staff invented out of whole cloth the notion that this preplanned attack was a popular spontaneous demonstration against a 7-minute anti-Muslim video. The attack began at 9:30 PM at night, never the usual time for a demonstration. The American people were lied to and the print and TV media are not covering this story in order to protect the president. You also know that and so does every other right thinking American.
HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (Dereliction of duties)
Impeachment in the United States is an expressed power of the legislature
 that allows for formal charges against a civil officer of government for crimes committed in office. The  actual trial on those charges, and subsequent removal of an official on conviction on those charges, is separate from the act of impeachment itself. 
Impeachment is analogous to indictment in regular court proceedings, while trial by the  other house is analogous to the trial before judge and jury in regular courts. Typically,  the lower house of the legislature will impeach the official and the upper house will conduct the trial. 
At the federal level Article II of the United States Constitution (Section 4) states that "The PresidentVice President, and all civil Officers of the United States shall be removed  from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, TreasonBribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors." The House of Representatives has the sole power of  impeaching, while the United States Senate has the sole power to try all impeachments.  The removal of impeached officials is automatic upon conviction in the Senate. In Nixon v. United States (1993), the Supreme Court determined that the federal judiciary cannot review such proceedings.

CIA Diector General Petraeus Throws president Obama Under the Bus
6:05 PM, Oct 26, 2012 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL
Breaking news on Benghazi: the CIA spokesman, presumably at the direction of CIA director David Petraeus, has put out this statement: "No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate. ”
Barack Obama  
So who in the government did tell “anybody” not to help those in need? Someone decided not to send in military assets to help those Agency operators. Would the secretary of defense make such a decision on his own? No!
It would have been a presidential decision. There was presumably a rationale for such a decision. What was it? When and why—and based on whose counsel obtained in what meetings or conversations—did President Obama decide against sending in military assets to help the Americans in need?

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Monday, October 29, 2012

Obama: The Buck Stops... Down There

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As it becomes increasingly clear that President Obama either ignored or disregarded real-time visual information about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, it becomes increasingly clear that the Commander-In-Chief is becoming the Blamer-In-Chief.  What a putz!

h/t The Gateway Pundit:


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Obama's Resurgent Economy

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Via RightMichigan:


Vote for Obama.  Keep this hope alive for the rest of us.
[puke]

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When Obama Loses: Civil Unrest?

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There are some who are predicting that when Barack Obama loses this upcoming presidential election, there will be widespread urban unrest.  This is based on the idea that blacks will seize upon Obama's defeat as an oppportunity and and excuse to start looting and razing the cities.

This is unfounded.  There is increasing evidence that, while there are some rabid Obama supporters who would not hesitate to cause mischief, a large portion of his 2008 support base has become disillusioned by his on-the-job performance... or lack thereof.  These mischief-makers, of course, are the stupid few who still believe Obama is bringing the change they hope for.

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Where Do You Live When A Burglar Shoots You In The Head And Then Sues You For Shooting Him?

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If you answered California, you are correct!  From the Cato Institute:

Alleged Criminal Brings Suit Against Injured Victim

Homeowner shoots criminal in self-defense—so the criminal turns around and sues the shooter?
From Marinij.com:
A 90-year-old Greenbrae man who was shot in the head during an alleged burglary has been sued by the alleged burglar.
Samuel Cutrufelli, who was also shot during the incident, claims Jay Leone “negligently shot” him during the confrontation inside Leone’s home.
For more information on citizens using guns in self-defense, go to the Cato map.  And check out my podcast interview with firearms expert Massad Ayoob.
This one would be laughed at all the way to Sacramento from anyplace in Texas.

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Sunday, October 28, 2012

U.S. Deficits: The Long Road To Recovery Or The Short Road To Stagnation

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Professor John Taylor of Stanford University displayed an interesting chart on his blog, Economics One.  It compares the impact on the Gross National Product taking two different "roads"... the House Budget Resolution versus the Alternative Fiscal Scenario.

The good news is that there is a way out of the economic death spiral.  The bad news is that our present administration has chosen a different way.  

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Obama: Our Military Can't Fight Without Information

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Benghazi could be another name for Waterloo.  Our pompous dictator-in-chief is the biggest lying S.O.B. that the Western world has seen since ... well, it's hard to say when.  Let's hope this is his Waterloo. [image]

Via The Other McCain:


Those Washington scumbags turn my stomach...

and their's, too.

h/t: This Ain't Hell, But You Can See It From Here.

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Obama's Polling Swing State Numbers Swinging Away

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If you are an Obama fan, these numbers have to be unsettling.  Of course, giving the events of the past few weeks, this should not surprise anyone.  Obama has become less presidential and more like a political organizing hack... and people are not appreciating that.

From Rasmussen:

Daily Swing State Tracking Poll.

Swing State Tracking: Romney 51%, Obama 45%.


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Romney +5
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Romney +3
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Romney +4
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Obama +3
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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Benghazi: Stand Down My Ass

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UPDATE:

Rumor Alert:  There are stories beginning to circulate that four-star General Carter F. Ham, commander of Africom, was relieved of duty because, within a minute of being told to "stand down," he decided to go ahead with a rescue effort.  Supposedly, he was then apprehended by his second in command.

We'll have to see if this develops further.
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I received this email from Bill.  He was just a bit upset.

They're the biggest fools I can recall.  Panetta is a useless SOB...right along with Obama.  These assholes were willing to sacrifice the lives of the Ambassador and others in Libya.  It doesn't get much worse. 

Why hasn't DCIA Petreaus spoken up?  Where the hell has his voice been?  

This is a pitiful excuse for a U.S. Administration.    

I am stunned as what is finally coming to light.  Impeach the SOBs.   

Bill
Now Bill is not a hothead.  He has had years of dealing with state and federal governments in various roles.  But this was the last straw.

What was the last straw?  This.

EXCLUSIVE: CIA operators were denied request for help during Benghazi attack, sources say 
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/26/cia-operators-were-denied-request-for-help-during-benghazi-attack-sources-say/  
EXCERPT:  Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters at the Pentagon on Thursday that there was not a clear enough picture of what was occurring on the ground in Benghazi to send help.

"There's a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking going on here," Panetta said Thursday. "But the basic principle here ... is that you don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on."


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Panetta doesn't understand the IMMEDIATE NEED to react and protect a U.S. Ambassador nor the role of available quick reaction forces.

"Stand Down", my ass.

This is one screwed up Administration.  Lightweights.
All one can say is Obama must have a Middle East strategy that no one can comprehend.  Yup, that's one smart leader we have.

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Friday, October 26, 2012

U.S. Commander In Chief Is A Misunderstander

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A good, short summary of Obama's military "intelligence."


PERHAPS THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN HAS THE WRONG CANDIDATE PICTURED IN A DUNCE HAT.



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Obama: IPAB Rationing Medicare Health Care

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Suppose you are one of those people who believes in having insurance coverage on your appliances or cars.  You buy a policy that says you can have any service provider do the work and it will be covered.  Then your covered product breaks down and you try to arrange a repair and find out that while the service is "covered," you cannot actually get service because the service provider will not be paid enough to actually get them to do the work.

This is how the new Affordable Care Act [Obamacare] will prevent seniors on Medicare from actually getting medical care.  You need that $50,000 heart operation?  The Independent Panel Advisory Board [IPAB] has determined that the appropriate payment for that operation is $500 and Medicare will gladly pay that amount.  Strangely, you can't find a doctor to do that operation for $500.  Well, you appeal, right?  No, there is no provision for you to appeal.  It's up to you to find that $500 operation or you're out of luck. [image]

Of course, the first step on that road is the 27% payment reduction already poised to go into effect in 2013.  Try that with your utilities provider.  "Hey, I'm only going to pay $73 of that $100 bill.  Like it or lump it."  Sure, that will ensure continued gas and electric service to your house.

This video explains how the IPAB provision is unconstitutional, but, hey, that's not an issue under the Obama administration, is it?


Do you have any logical reason ... well, even plausible reason ... why anyone over 64-years old can support Barack H. Obama?

Obamacare: you get IPAB, 16,000 more IRS agents, and "denial of service."  Who needs those doctors for health care anyway?

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Friday October 26, 2012
Aha! Pay doctors more for Medicaid

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Raytheon Microwave Technology: It Cooks Your Computer But What About Casseroles?

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Preppers are getting ready for the clock to be turned back 150 years.  They may have to hurry.  Raytheon and the U.S. Air Force just tested a new system that creates a pseudo-EMP attack without the nuclear bomb... and it works.



My wife will really be after me to get that Berkey water filter and those food-safe 5-gallon storage buckets... along with a big gun and ammo collection.  Don't bother with the solar systems or wind turbines.  They'll get fried and, besides, what will you use them for?  Better go to the Henry Ford Museum and find things that will still work without electricity and gasoline.

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Iran & North Korea Building EMP Weapons?

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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Obama's Energy Plan: True Or "That's Just Not True"

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From the Democratic National Convention:


Since the largest increase in energy production has come from shale fields, just what is Obama's energy policy there?  Via Al Fin:
In April, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) required drillers to capture emissions of certain air pollutants (volatile organic compounds and methane) from new wells. Drillers can burn the pollutants at the wellhead until the start of 2015, when EPA expects that enough equipment will be available to capture the pollution.[ii] The original proposed rule issued by EPA in 2011... was estimated to reduce oil production from hydraulically fractured wells by up to 37 percent and reduce federal royalties by $8.5 billion and state severance taxes by up to $2.3 billion due to reduced drilling and production.[iii]
While other countries are using hydraulic fracturing to increase production and revenues, the United States – which pioneered the technological breakthroughs that led to the practice — is looking to lower oil and gas production and increase costs by increasing regulations on the technology. To date, hydraulic fracturing has helped to reduce our dependence on imported oil and natural gas, lower natural gas and electric utility bills, and increase employment in states where shale oil and natural gas are produced. It looks like hydraulic fracturing should be a win-win relationship for domestic production and consumption of oil and natural gas, but the Obama Administration has proposed changes that threaten that through increased regulations, despite the fact that the states have successfully regulated that industry for half a century or more. _IER
Hmmm.  Well, that's just part of Obama's energy policy, right?  How about all of those new battery jobs?  Via The Mental Recession:



Solar power?  Let's just skip the Solyndra discussion.

Wind power?  From the U.S. Energy Information Agency:
MARCH 12, 2012

U.S. wind generation increased 27% in 2011.

Although increasing, electricity from wind contributed to less than 3% of total generation in 2011. Wind energy is the largest source of non-hydroelectric renewable electricity in the United States, contributing 61% of the nearly 200 terawatthours of non-hydroelectric renewable generation in 2011. EIA recently released preliminary data through December 2011 on generation, fuel consumption, and other statistics for the electric power industry in the Electric Power Monthly and Electricity Monthly Update.
So, while 27% increase of very little may sound like much, maybe not so much wind energy in that energy policy.

Nuclear power?  Obama will just leave that part up to Iran.

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Obama: That's Really Not Optimal

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When Mitt Romney says we need a new Middle Eastern strategy, this is to what he is referring:





Well, yes, but make sure you don't confuse new enemies with new friends.

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Israel Attacks Gaza: Four Killed

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Why not use a headline that appeals to anti-Israeli factions?  After all, it's true.  Israel forces did kill four people in Gaza.  That makes Israel an evil aggressor, correct?

From the BBC:

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have carried out air strikes over Gaza City, killing at least four Hamas militants and injuring several other people.
It comes after a night of rocket fire from Gaza into southern Israel which injured at least three people. 
Two large explosions were also heard in Gaza on Wednesday morning. 
On Tuesday, an Israeli soldier was seriously injured by a bomb blast near the Gaza border fence. The previous day two militants died in an air strike. 
One of the militants was a member of Hamas, the Islamist movement which governs Gaza. The other was from the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC). 
The IDF said more than 50 rockets and mortar had been fired into Israel overnight, hitting at least one house. A number of the missiles were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile defence system. [full story]
So, how far behind Israel is the U.S. standing now?

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2012 Presidential Election Projections

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Two weeks from now it will be over.  Two weeks from now it will begin.  We will all have the answer.  Until then, there are polls.

From Rasmussen:

In the Rasmussen Reports Electoral College projections, the president has 237 Electoral Votes and Romney 235. The magic number needed to win the White House is 270. Seven states with 66 Electoral College votes remain Toss-ups: OhioVirginiaWisconsinColorado,  Iowa,  Nevada and New Hampshire. 
From Pew Research Center:


From the Gallup poll:





So, now you know.

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Henry Louis Mencken (1880–1956)
“The Divine Afflatus,” A Mencken Chrestomathy, chapter 25, p. 443 (1949)
... and one could add "not all human problems really are."
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... The Government is on course for an embarrassing showdown with the European Union, business groups and environmental charities after refusing to guarantee that billions of pounds of revenue it stands to earn from carbon-permit trading will be spent on combating climate change.
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February 3, 2006
Go back to 1999-2000 and see what the Fed did. They are following the same pattern for 2005-06. If it ain't broke, the Fed will fix it... and good!
August 29, 2006 The Federal Reserve always acts on old information... and is the only cause of U.S. recessions.
December 5, 2006 Last spring I wrote about what I saw to be a sharp downturn in the economy in the "rustbelt" states, particularly Michigan.
March 28, 2007
The Federal Reserve sees no need to cut interest rates in the light of adverse recent economic data, Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday.
The Fed chairman said ”to date, the incoming data have supported the view that the current stance of policy is likely to foster sustainable economic growth and a gradual ebbing in core inflation”.

July 21, 2007 My guess is that if there is an interest rate change, a cut is more likely than an increase. The key variables to be watching at this point are real estate prices and the inventory of unsold homes.
August 11, 2007 I suspect that within 6 months the Federal Reserve will be forced to lower interest rates before housing becomes a black hole.
September 11, 2007 It only means that the overall process has flaws guaranteeing it will be slow in responding to changes in the economy... and tend to over-react as a result.
September 18, 2007 I think a 4% rate is really what is needed to turn the economy back on the right course. The rate may not get there, but more cuts will be needed with employment rates down and foreclosure rates up.
October 25, 2007 How long will it be before I will be able to write: "The Federal Reserve lowered its lending rate to 4% in response to the collapse of the U.S. housing market and massive numbers of foreclosures that threaten the banking and mortgage sectors."
November 28, 2007 FED VICE CHAIRMAN DONALD KOHN
"Should the elevated turbulence persist, it would increase the possibility of further tightening in financial conditions for households and businesses," he said.

"Uncertainties about the economic outlook are unusually high right now," he said. "These uncertainties require flexible and pragmatic policymaking -- nimble is the adjective I used a few weeks ago."
http://www.reuters.com/

December 11, 2007 Somehow the Fed misses the obvious.
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December 13, 2007 [from The Christian Science Monitor]
"The odds of a recession are now above 50 percent," says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com. "We are right on the edge of a recession in part because of the Fed's reluctance to reduce interest rates more aggressively." [see my comments of September 11]
January 7, 2008 The real problem now is that consumers can't rescue the economy and manufacturing, which is already weakening, will continue to weaken. We've gutted the forces that could avoid a downturn. The question is not whether there will be a recession, but can it be dampened sufficiently so that it is very short.
January 11, 2008 This is death by a thousand cuts.
January 13, 2008 [N.Y. Times]
“The question is not whether we will have a recession, but how deep and prolonged it will be,” said David Rosenberg, the chief North American economist at Merrill Lynch. “Even if the Fed’s moves are going to work, it will not show up until the later part of 2008 or 2009.
January 17, 2008 A few days ago, Anna Schwartz, nonagenarian economist, implicated the Federal Reserve as the cause of the present lending crisis [from the Telegraph - UK]:
The high priestess of US monetarism - a revered figure at the Fed - says the central bank is itself the chief cause of the credit bubble, and now seems stunned as the consequences of its own actions engulf the financial system. "The new group at the Fed is not equal to the problem that faces it," she says, daring to utter a thought that fellow critics mostly utter sotto voce.
January 22, 2008 The cut has become infected and a limb is in danger. Ben Bernanke is panicking and the Fed has its emergency triage team cutting rates... this time by 3/4%. ...

What should the Federal Reserve do now? Step back... and don't be so anxious to raise rates at the first sign of economic improvement.
Individuals and businesses need stability in their financial cost structures so that they can plan effectively and keep their ships afloat. Wildly fluctuating rates... regardless of what the absolute levels are... create problems. Either too much spending or too much fear. It's just not that difficult to comprehend. Why has it been so difficult for the Fed?

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Air Force (SAC) captain 1968-72. Retired after 35 years of business and logistical planning, including running a small business. Two sons with advanced degrees; one with a business and pre-law degree. Beautiful wife who has put up with me for 4 decades. Education: B.A. (Sociology major; minors in philosopy, English literature, and German) M.S. Operations Management (like a mixture of an MBA with logistical planning)