i just saw on the news that Chicago is spending 10.5 million dollars just to come up with a mascot for any potential olympic bid. crazy. nowadays, the selfishness of " wouldn't it be great if we had the Olympics " is stupid. we can't afford them and no you don't make money off the Olympics any more. you'll spend tens of billions - if not hundreds of billions - just to get a billion or so back for Chicago. it's stupid. it would be FAR cheaper to just write Chicago a check. let somebody else host for a turn.

the President submitted a budget proposal that has a 1.75 TRILLION DOLLAR DEFICT (so far) for one year alone. that's more than the last 5 years combined!

NEWS FLASH - nobody will or even has 1.75 TRILLION dollars to lend us. esp. on a yearly basis. what about the massive interest costs ? people just don't get it and continue to spend like it's never gonna crash. the government is gonna have to print extra dollars that will erode the value of the dollar, maybe very seriously.

besides that, so far we spent 3 TRILLION dollars + on a recession that is no different than the ones in the 90's, 80's, 70's, times when we didn't spend astronomical sums and we emerged fine.

last fall the bail out of 3/4 trillion dollars was passed and now the banks and the gov. say they don't know what the money was used for or where it went!!! unfreegin real!!! absolutely unbelievable!!!

now they want more money cuz the banks aren't lending? well DUH ! anybody stop to think that they're not lending cuz people aren't applying for loans cuz they're afraid they'll lose their jobs? and the more the tv says the sky is falling the more people quit spending and then more jobs are lost.

we probably are heading for a crash that's like post war germany or the third world countries where a loaf of bread costs a wheel barrow load of money.