Archive for September, 2008

I’m an on-again off-again news listener. During the week, I have a radio at work tuned to NPR radio as is my car radio. My husband swears they are a force of the Democrats and gnashes his teeth and pulls his hair at my listening to it. I keep telling him it’s because of the classical music they play and Car Talk on Saturdays that keeps me as a listener but he’s not buying that. He’s afraid that I will cross over to the “dark side” and become a flaming liberal.

Well, no, sweetie. I won’t become a flaming liberal, but I’m certainly not swinging right quite as far as you are.

Like diet pills that work, I’m thinking this economic bailout plan is ephemereal and a product of wishful thinking. I’ll admit that I’m looking at all this as pure politics and have a jaundiced eye with regards to the so-called “taxpayer protections” that are involved. I still think, despite being assured otherwise, that my tax dollars are going to line some stock market mogul’s pockets. I’m doubtful that my 401K will see any upturn until the stupid people who control the “market mania” have gotten their hysteria and paranoia under control and start thinking in more positive terms.

HE thinks it’s a great plan and doesn’t want to see any money going to people who bought $200,000 homes they knew they couldn’t afford. Somehow that doesn’t seem like that describes the majority of people who are being foreclosed on, but I don’t have hard and fast data on who is comprising the bulk of people losing their homes.

I think even John McCain has reservations about this plan, but right now he can’t afford to buck the party line too hard, so he’s choosing his battles. At least he was there to encourage some language that set limits on the tax dollars that are headed down the drain (or more accurately into wall street speculators’ pockets).

Canucklehead had some rather interesting information on his website today about just what all 700 Billion US dollars would purchase (of course this was posted before the markets opened and the US dollar took another nose dive, but we’ll use it just for the sake of shock value).

I know what I want to buy from his list.

What would you buy?

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Why is it that great ideas come in the middle of the night? I mean I need my beauty sleep just like everyone else (actually if the truth were known, I probably need it MORE than many people — why else do you think I don’t post photos of myself??), but noooooo, my wonderful ideas come at 2:00 am and wake me up.

If I’m puzzling over the answer to a coding problem at work DING! 2:00am and the eyes pop open and the brain goes “BINGO! EUREKA! PROBLEM SOLVED!!“. Of course, if I don’t get up right away to write the idea or answer down, it’s often gone into the murky mists of brain fog by morning, so I’ve learned to get up and go handle it right then or risk that elusive thought’s evaporation. Hence the loss of beauty sleep in a rather big way.

So, with this country’s woes on my mind, I drift off to sleep last night and voila! At 2:00 am here it comes — the solution to the problem.

Only it’s not the solution to the economic problem.

It’s the solution to Immigraton. And it’s such an EASY solution that solves many problems besides immigration…don’t laugh now. I’m serious about this — it would truly solve lots of problems!

We need to annex Mexico.

Yep — that would do it. Annex Mexico, make it another state (heck we already have states as big as Mexico, so why not another one??). Felipe can be governor. All the people would be given US Citizenship and that way they would all automatically become taxpayers (which would increase our tax base) and that would eliminate the 7 million illegal immigrants we’re currently dealing with — or most of them anyway. The current states in Mexico would become counties. No problem right? I’m sure the Mexican people would be thrilled. It would give us a supply of cheap labor and we wouldn’t be sending jobs out of the country any more when they went to Mexico and we could stop building the wall. We would have more tourist spots to charge a luxury tax on (more tax revenues!) and most of them know some English, so language isn’t that big of a problem, either.

Yep — it’s perfect….

Well, now that I’ve solved that problem, I need to go back to bed.

Who knows what other problems I can solve given enough sleep.

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