Was it worth it? Was anyone really listening to "We the People" as we tried to make our voices, our concerns heard? Taking a look back, I have some rather mixed feelings and I wonder, did anyone among the powers that be really hear us or did it just become a case of so much sensationalism on the six o’clock news. Read more…

The United States government wants us to believe we are broke. They voted in their own health care, we paid for. They borrowed against Social Security we pay for. Then they allowed banks to rob our one asset from us, our homes. Now they say if they can’t increase the debt limit this nation will go bankrupt. I thought we all ready were.

What is the appeal of televangelists pushing the Apocalypse, and why are they so successful at extorting money from their elderly viewers?

The market’s numbers should reflect a realistic projected value of the companies whose shares are being traded by investors, not the irrational exuberance of speculators.

Surviving the recession and living below poverty level in a middle class life.

How conditions continued to worsen, in 2007 and 2008, setting the stage for the financial and economic crisis of 2009. A debate is beginning to rage about why we should help us regular guys and gals out when we ate the carrot offered by the banks and mortgage companies. We accepted the sub prime, option pay loans, and now find our finances in the toilet. We made the bad decisions, so we have to pay the consequences.

Tax rebate check on time to prevent election year recession.