It All Starts With a Sunrise

I thought a lot about my first blog post. Either way good or bad, I knew it would be historic. I've read extensively. I've been following many other blogs. My opinions are formed. I've tried to determine where the line is between what is acceptable and what is not. I've found that if it's your blog say what you want. Just be prepared to defend your facts, and your ego.

What to say? Be informative? Original? Polarizing? No, just say whats on my mind. What do I think of at 3 a.m.? How would I fix things? Who would I ask for consult? How could I trust my friends to help when I would wield such power? Could I do any better fixing the mess we are in? Hell, could I do any worse? Who would be just using me to get what they want? They all would.

So again now I am alone. Utterly alone. With no one to help me assemble this first historic foray.

It was easier to get married. Get divorced. Buy an house. Or a bank. Hire good people. Let them go. Make a payroll, or decide not to.  Come to the brink only to be yanked back as pebbles tumble over the edge. Yes, I have done them all. It was easier to do all those things then bare my soul to your opinion.

My hope would be that someone way smarter than me doesn't read my blog, and refute each and every position. Destroy each and every fact with such precision only a laser guided bomb could appreciate it.

What do you want in a blog? Someone to tackle you? Someone you can tackle easily? Some blogger that is an easy straight guy? You tell me.  I make an easy target. I love the challenge. But I never lose. At least in my mind. The worst feeling is when I am in the middle of a great debate, and realize that I am wrong.

My hope is within my debate with you that someone, somewhere in a position to change things might read our debate, and a light would break through the darkness, and a real discovery would be made. A beginning to a real recovery of the mess we are in could begin.

So where do I start? I have so many points. How about a few bullet points to set the tone:

• Our economy is worse now than in the Great Depression.
• Our Dollar is closer now to going to zero than at any time since the Continental Dollar went to zero and George Washington couldn't buy a chicken to feed the Continental Army
• Quantitative Easing (QE2) is buying your way out of debt with a debt. Its like paying off your credit cards with a new credit card and saying your all better.
• That Obama has moved us closer to Socialism in 2 years than Communism did in 95 years.
• That when you print money with no intrinsic underlying value, smart people will figure it out and quit accepting them.
• That when you tell China, whose economy is 30x larger than ours and holds our mortgage, to do what we tell them; don't be surprised when they say get lost. And then you come back home acting like you were right and China has it all wrong.
• That history repeats itself. And if we don't learn from the Romans, we are destined to follow them.
• That we are in year 2 of a lost decade.
• That your house may never again be worth what you paid for it.
• That social security is full of nothing but IOU's and I'm not counting on it. I plan to work to age 75, not because I want to, but because I will need to.
• That the stock market is so overvalued, a sugar high wouldn't be this good at a candy making party.
• That September and October always tell us when we are headed in the wrong direction.
• It will be a socks and underwear Christmas, unless leather jackets are the same price.

There. I feel better. I hope someone has something to say about one of those points. Who knows, you may go down in history as the first respondent to prove me wrong. We'll talk soon...

D