Sorry

I want to make my heartfelt apologies to the following:

Sorry Dish Network. The current economic mess has forced me to cancel your service.

Sorry NetFlix. I'll be able to entertain myself without your service for quite some time.

Sorry Baen. I will not be purchasing any more webscriptions in the foreseeable future. Thank the politicians and a greedy Wall Street.

Sorry Amazon. Blame the Wall Street bankers and investment gurus for my stopping all purchases.

Sorry eBay. I canceled the Paypal account and stopped all searches and purchases on your site. Not only does the current economy cause this, but also your irrational changes to what was once a fun experience.

Sorry Microsoft. I can no longer afford your ill conceived, unworkable software in the current economic climate. Maybe if you didn't off-shore your workforce you could be part of the solution and not the problem.

Sorry Dell or HP or any other electronic manufacturer. No new computer this year or next unless the economy changes rapidly for the better. Maybe if you didn't off-shore your workforce you could be part of the solution and not the problem.

Sorry banks and credit card companies. Your policies are to blame for this crisis! I for one do not need to feed your greed. You can take your high interest, teaser rates, and other BS elsewhere.

Sorry insurance companies, mutual funds, and stockbrokers. You bought into this financial mess and now you can eat it! Cash may be king, but Gold and Silver are for real.

Sorry Republican and Democrat politicans. I don't feel the need to vote for a bunch of politicians that have placed lobbyist, special interest groups, and "fat cat" financial moguls above the rights and economic well being of the American middle class.

Sorry China, Indonesia, etc. I don't need your cheap crap. I'll be buying very little for the foreseeable future and what I buy will be "Made in America."

Ron Paul is right! Maybe, just maybe, people will start to listen to what he has to say. If it isn't too late that is.

Political Polls

I found something interesting on the Fox News website the other day. Normally, I don't pay much attention to politics this early before an election, but I happened to click onto the Politics page and found something called the Real Clear Polls or something like that. It seem to be an average of all the other political polls that abound in the news media.

Anyway, in my travels around the web, I often see comments about the poor poll numbers of President Bush. Now I don't take polls too seriously since college courses in statistics have shown just how easy it is to fudge the numbers. However, this poll pointed up a gap in results that doesn't seem to be reported. It seems that congress has even lower poll numbers than the President! While his gap between approval and disapproval is 26% that of congress is 40% and it's getting worse with every poll since the 100 day grace period after the last election.

Is the US Congressional delegation really that bad? My personal opinion is yes, but this polls results shows that I'm not alone in my opinion. One can only wonder at why so many of the current crop of presidential candidates are current or former member of congress. If the results are to be believed then the American public cares even less for these people as a group than it does for President Bush.

Personally, I say a pox on all of them.