Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae...

the end is near, lol, hopefully the economy is cycling as it usually does and the future will be bright, especially after this election...they had 8 years i guess it just was not quite enough

75 Tique wrote: but the sun is out and the Tique is runnin' good...what else matters?

Yep, indeed, you're right... But even that isn't going well for me at the moment... Bad weather over here (two weeks already and no improvement in sight) and my boat at the dealer with a busted prop and shaft

penned a 52 billy dollar deal, good chocalate good beer i say, if this is not a perfect example and a wake up call people should be fin ashamed, no pun Kris, I'll drink a Bud with you anyday

once again the end is near lol, im might be a loud mouth on politics and the economy but something isnt quite right

Greg, you know as i do what opinions are like,
the problem is, how do we fix this stuff?

Pete, Glad you liked it. It's the only soda I like to drink. Did Boat Dr get to try it? It's also good with rum or ice cream. And besides thurst, it cures a hangover or upset stomach.

eric lavine wrote: how do we fix this stuff?

Reagan once said... 'I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.'

My grandfather once said...'A donkey is a horse made by committee'.

It seems to me that most of our problems originate in congress; they not only have a lower approval rating than bush, but they were in single digits last I heard.

The Fairtax would return a lot of power to the people, and while mostly symbolic, bush raised the moratorium on offshore drilling today. Both would be a great start, BUT...they both have to go through congress/committee?!!?

Things aren't improving here either...
Our federal government has resigned yesterday evening, because after a year of argueing between french speaking south and dutch speaking north on the reform of the state, no solution was found. In the mean time, no governmental work is done to tangle the real problems of the people here, such as gas prices, food prices, energy prices and tax reforms...
Unions are getting ready for battle here. It's gonna be a warm fall in Belgium...

Oh, and Eric, I'll drink a Bud with you anyday too and sit at the bar talking about how we would rule the world LOL...

I guess we can all agree that that the world nowadays is one big village... What happens in your neck of the woods today, will have it's effect on our neck of the woods tomorrow and vice versa...

You know if we would just start charging the OPEC folks the same amount of $$$$ for grain that we ship over there for the amount of $$$$ they charge us for the same amount of Oil. We 'd solve this problem really fast. If they refuse to pay what we are charging for food then tell em'

FINE! Eat your oil!

See how fast the price of oil comes down.

LOL Eric

But HEY! Nancy Pelosi and all her Democratic comrades are going to fix the oil issue if she is elected speaker of the house. OH wait she already has 2 years ago right??

700 billion dollars a year leaves this country for oil dependency, thats a ton of money going out. what i see that is really going on is, Saudi Arabia is investing billions into thier country gearing up for tourism, this is the replacement income for crude oil. the price increases are due to this because possibly there will be shortages in the near future....the ground only holds so much crude and they have been pumping the middle east for years, once the Saudi's run out,.. lets face it...we have no use for them,

support.....or bail out, shame on those banks that let that money out

but there still there when you get back