Good reporting, scary but good... When you say take responsibility, I hope you are pointing your finger at Washington politicians, not average Joe! I anticipate hyper inflation starting end of 2010 or beginning of 2011. Best to clean up your finances and stay as far out of debt as one can these days...

Let's be clear (I love that saying): there any many blogs from both the left and right that have been very effective at cutting and pasting. Funk is not parroting for the right any more than you or Murrelet parrot for the left. He's simply providing information from another source, and he identified the source at the end of the post. Sorry it wasn't to APA standards, but he did give credit!

WHL, thanks for your vote of confidence, and yes my primary focus is the Washington politcians. However we need to continue to promote a primary constituent , during the first week of Training

Will the economy recover or will it fall into another tail spin? How long will either take?

Trillion dollar questions, Joe...

You have a greater belief in people than I do Jimmy. IMHO while people scream they want change, the thought of change frightens them. An analogy would be of a man who goes to the doctor with a broken leg. The doctor tells him that the leg has an old break which did not heal properly and he will have to break the leg and reset it so it heals properly. The man being afraid of the pain associated with it being rebroken and set, decides he will live with the limp and current pain. Fixing what is wrong with our government could be a painful process which would require some sacrifice, which most americans don't want to hear.

WOW! A level-headed bi-partisan conversation. My faith is restored! Jimmy, I couldn't agree more with you when you say people are going to rise to occasion. I think a revolution of sorts is on the horizon, or may have already started.

It will take an all out revolt, Tom... Don't see that happening in the U.S...

Power To The People Jimmy, BTW ya'll on my last post anything after thanking WHL and identifying the primary focus of our distrust is a typo, I need to get some rest LOL! All of us want what's best for our Country to propsper, and if we continue to express our views in a respectful manner, we find more common ground amongst us regardless of political affiliation.

Where do I sign up?

Bipartisan, of course!!!

name the time and place Jimmy and I will bw there with bells on my toes.

I'm interested also, but remember I'm a moderate conservative with a little Libertarianism, Traditional Liberal expecting bipartisanship!!!

What is this deficit anyway? We pay our taxes to a private bank who then charges us interest to make withdrawals. The Federal Reserve Bank is no more federal than Federal Express and until people start realizing this, our deficit is going to continue to increase!

Jimmy, I agree with your correction on NON-PARTISANSHIP sounds very good to me. The Standard would have to be the U.S Constitution, which our Presidents are sworn to uphold.

Jimmy, your last entry was the smartest thing anyone has said since I stared reading the Courier blogs! I do wonder, though, how you, Funky, Murrelet, TandS, etc...could really go down the middle on anything. When you figure it out, I'll go round up my posse and enlist!

I'm more than willing to follow the U.S. Constitution and it's approved ammendments!