The Housing Bubble

We can do much better. Many more criminals still could be caught. And we can incarcerate them at a much cheaper rate. The whole thing is terribly inefficient.

Prison labor competes with unions and illegals.

Prison labor competes with unions and illegals.

There are a lot of union leaders and illegals in prison. Think of the irony.

A long time ago, a poster here stated a belief that tomorrow’s down and out oldsters will deliberately commit crimes that land them in jail.

All to get three squares and a roof.

Today’s jails. Tomorrow’s housing.

The best part of 3 hots and a cot is free dental and medical.

That, too!

Library, gym and manicured lawn also await.

And, if you have enough oldsters in a given pen, you might end up with a fairly civilized paid-for imprisonment.

And, if you have enough oldsters in a given pen,

But there’s the rub: prior to achieving that critical mass, the oldsters in question might find that the animals at the zoo make it a bit less of an appealing proposition than anticipated…

The best part of 3 hots and a cot is free dental and medical.

In California, the medical comes with a free sex change.

It’s a myth that prisoners can count on decent medical and dental care in prison. In recent years, especially at private prisons, medical care is minimal, beyond trying to force inmates to take psychiatric drugs to dope them into docility.

‘Rioting in the streets when people’s stucco box values drop by more than 70%. ‘

You may be underestimating people’s tolerance for this sort of thing. It would take a very significant disruption to people’s health and safety to get more than a few people out of their houses and into the street.

Recently, here in the DFW area, there was a complete recall of Blue Bell dairy and ice cream products requiring all products be removed from store shelves. While there were reports of some unrest, no widespread rioting occurred.

No one rioted during the last crash and the Occupy Wall Street crowd were laughed at into oblivion.

People won’t riot simply because they fear losing what they have left.

“People won’t riot simply because they fear losing what they have left.”

Yep, that cheese sho-b-goo.

95% of the electorate bent over and grabbed their ankles for Wall Street during the last two elections. In 2016 they’ll do the same. People this docile and stupid don’t riot.

Julius Ceasar was good for the people of Rome.

Apparently, not everyone agreed or he would not had difficulties with his Senate. They were more than disrespectful to him.

Obviously not a fan of Obama but I think Patton had it right, what did he say something like: the object is not to die for your country but to get the other poor sob to die for his.

Exactly. And whatever we approve happening to “them”, will one day be done to “us”.

Yes, because the U.S. lives by the following rules:

If their brown bring them down.
If their black send them back.
If their white they are alright. (massive sarcasm).

their = they’re?

It just amazes me that many on this board will decide the quilt or innocence of an individual on nothing more than the race of the accused or the victim.

Need coffee, phonetic spelling. Thanks.

Guilt for quilt, two in a row TGIF.

Dan,

There has been a great deal of this on this board in recent months.

It didn’t use to be this way, but it is now. Maybe it’ll subside.

Exactly. And whatever we approve happening to “them”, will one day be done to “us”.

I’d say that it’s already starting.

Yup. Exactly.

http://tinyurl.com/nd8rkjx

http://tinyurl.com/pxbqbhk

Cops are trained to “control the situation”. Even if it means shooting/kicking the crap out of the “PITA innocent bystanders”.

“It just amazes me that many on this board will decide the quilt or innocence of an individual on nothing more than the race of the accused or the victim.”

Lay off my bro phony.

Boy you guys are smart.

But you didn’t actually read the article.

Why would Chisholm seek such broad powers to investigate a year-old embezzlement claim with a known suspect? Because the Milwaukee County executive, Scott Walker, had by that time become the leading Republican candidate for governor. District Attorney Chisholm was a Democrat, a very partisan Democrat.

Political observers will no doubt remember the events in Madison — the state capitol overrun by chanting protesters, Democratic lawmakers fleeing the state to prevent votes on the legislation, and tens of millions of dollars of outside money flowing into the state as Wisconsin became, fundamentally, a proxy fight pitting the union-led Left against the Tea Party–led economic Right.

At the same time that the public protests were raging, so were private — but important — protests in the Chisholm home and workplace. As a former prosecutor told journalist Stuart Taylor, Chisholm’s wife was a teachers’-union shop steward who was distraught over Act 10’s union reforms. He said Chisholm “felt it was his personal duty” to stop them.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417155/wisconsins-shame-i-thought-it-was-home-invasion-david-french

In the second John Doe, Chisholm had no real evidence of wrongdoing. Yes, conservative groups were active in issue advocacy, but issue advocacy was protected by the First Amendment and did not violate relevant campaign laws. Nonetheless, Chisholm persuaded prosecutors in four other counties to launch their own John Does, with Judge Kluka overseeing all of them.

Empowered by a rubber-stamp judge, partisan investigators ran amok. They subpoenaed and obtained (without the conservative targets’ knowledge) massive amounts of electronic data, including virtually all the targets’ personal e-mails and other electronic messages from outside e-mail vendors and communications companies.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417155/wisconsins-shame-i-thought-it-was-home-invasion-david-french

What did the Journal Sentinel know and when did it know it? (WI)

The Wisconsin Reporter ^ | 4-23-15 | M. D. Kittle

Posted on 4/23/2015, 9:47:22 AM by afraidfortherepublic

MADISON, Wis. – The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Patrick Marley confirms he was the mysterious reporter Cindy Archer spotted as armed police swarmed her home during a dramatic September 2011 police raid, one of several in the Milwaukee district attorney’s secret war on conservatives.

“I was the one who was there. I arrived an hour or two after the raid began,” Marley told Wisconsin Watchdog on Wednesday.

Who tipped him off?

“I don’t reveal sources, and I typically don’t help those trying to figure out my sources by telling them who my sources aren’t,” Marley said.

Marley’s appearance at what was supposed to be a secret raid raises the possibility that the Journal Sentinel was tipped off by someone inside law enforcement. That would violate a state statute, as well as Wisconsin’s controversial John Doe law – the law that Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm has invoked twice in four years to launch what are supposed to be secret investigations of conservative activists.

But Marley’s fellow Capitol reporter, Jason Stein, also credited with reporting the Journal Sentinel’s same-day story on the raid, says there’s no mystery. He told Wisconsin Watchdog he’s the one who tipped off Marley.

So where did Stein get the tip?

“No one connected with the John Doe probe, certainly not any law-enforcement officers or prosecutors, tipped me off to the fact that that home was being raided in plain sight on the east side of Madison, where many of the state’s most liberal residents live. The real mystery, to me, was why only one reporter showed up,” he wrote in an email to Wisconsin Watchdog.

That may leave others wondering why Stein asked a fellow political – rather than crime – reporter to cover the police action.

Stein said he dialed up Marley because Stein wasn’t sure he would get there before the cops left. Marley lives closer to Archer’s address and the raid went down before the Capitol reporters clocked in, which in those days was around 9 a.m., Stein said.

“I don’t cover many police raids, but this one was a no brainer, given that local law enforcement and the FBI had suddenly shown up at the home of the (former) No. 2 official at the state’s most important agency,” he said, noting Archer’s previous top-level position at the state Department of Administration. She had taken a leave of absence from the agency just days before the raid.

“Since then, I think it’s become clear that the FBI had only minor involvement in (John) Doe Two for forensic computer work, but at that time we had no idea why the FBI were suddenly involved. For all we knew it was a big development of some kind,” he added.

Stein and Marley are co-authors of More Than They Bargained For: Scott Walker, Unions and the Fight for Wisconsin. The book chronicles Wisconsin’s heated debates and mass protests leading up to the passage of Act 10, Walker’s reforms to public-sector collective bargaining.

The presence of a reporter seemed obvious on Sept. 14, 2011, when the Journal Sentinel published its story on the raid at Archer’s home. That story, attributed to Marley, Stein and two other reporters at the paper, indicated that one of them arrived in time to see “about a dozen law enforcement officers, including FBI agents” raid Archer’s home.

“Around 9 a.m., a reporter saw four FBI agents – two of them wearing latex gloves – talking in Archer’s backyard before going into her house. Later, one removed a large box and put it in the trunk of an FBI car. They left about 10 a.m,” the Journal Sentinel story reported.

“The FBI also seized the hard drive from a computer that a neighbor had bought from Archer six to eight weeks ago at a garage sale.”

FBI agents “told a reporter” that the agency was involved in a “law enforcement action.”

The question of Marley’s identity – and its bearing on the secrecy that Chisholm has insisted is essential to his investigation – derives from David French’s excellent reporting on the John Doe in National Review last week. That account opens with an account of the early-morning raid on Cindy Archer’s home.

French writes that during the raid, Archer “looked outside and saw a person who appeared to be a reporter. Someone had tipped him off.”

As agents with battering rams raided Archer’s home, Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and his assistants were digging up what they could on the Milwaukee County Executive’s office. Walker, a Republican, led the county office for several years before being elected Wisconsin’s governor in November 2010. The DA, a Democrat, used information gathered in that probe to launch his investigation into what became a multi-county investigation into 29 conservative groups and Walker’s campaign. Chisholm’s office worked alongside the state Government Accountability Board, John Doe special prosecutor Francis Schmitz, and a very willing John Doe Judge appointed at the direction of Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson to go after the conservatives and their constitutionally protected donor lists.

Stein said he did not learn of the raid until after it started, although he is not sure how long after.

“So we didn’t observe any battering ram or other details that Ms. Archer described recently. As I recall, the neighbors didn’t mention those details and of course Ms. Archer did not provide them,” the reporter said.

Archer did not talk to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, but later spoke to the Wisconsin State Journal.

“I’m not worried,” Archer told the State Journal following the raid. “I don’t even have a lawyer. I don’t need a lawyer. I did nothing inappropriate.”

However they got the tip, the Journal Sentinel reporters were able to find someone able to identify the targets of Chisholm raids.

“Sources have said the investigation has increasingly focused on the activities of Archer and Tom Nardelli, Walker’s former county chief of staff,” the newspaper reported. Three weeks before the raid, when Archer announced she was taking a leave of absence from her job in the governor’s office, the Journal Sentinel reported, “Officials gave no reason for Archer’s leave, its duration or whether she’ll return to the same job” – and then speculated, “It’s not clear if the personal leave is tied to the growing John Doe investigation of Walker’s former county workers.”

Nardelli, who died last year, was never charged with any wrongdoing. In fact, it was Nardelli who, representing Walker, brought to Chisholm’s office a problem: a discrepancy in a Milwaukee County veterans fund. Walker’s concern that the fund had been ripped-off became the initial reason for the secret probe. But from that point, Chisholm’s prosecutors operated on a grander theory: that this opening providing them with an excuse to investigate relationships between Walker and Wisconsin’s conservatives.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3282228/posts?page=14 - 28k -

“But you didn’t actually read the article.”

What part didn’t we read? We read the part where the white folks poop their pants when they’re treated like black folks.

So you are a Nazi

Just like Obama sicking the IRS on his enemies.

“District Attorney Chisholm was a Democrat, a very partisan Democrat.”

“As a former prosecutor told journalist Stuart Taylor, Chisholm’s wife was a teachers’-union shop steward who was distraught over Act 10’s union reforms. He said Chisholm “felt it was his personal duty” to stop them.”

“Empowered by a rubber-stamp judge, partisan investigators ran amok.”

I repeat: you underestimate the stupidity of our electorate. We are living in IDIOCRACY. Think of tens of millions of Florida Dyspeptics, willfully ignorant and deluded, who will vote for “their” candidate regardless of a mountain of evidence that shows how corrupt and unfit to govern she is. Think of the victory of “hope ‘n change” in two elections.

We are so screwed.

They also have all those emails via the NSA dontcha think? And much much more. I’m with Palmetto here.

On the other hand Bush et al had all the info also before getting tossed and didn’t spill the beans to derail Obama. Maybe they’re just taking turns.

“I repeat: you underestimate the stupidity of our electorate. We are living in IDIOCRACY. Think of tens of millions of Florida Dyspeptics, willfully ignorant and deluded, who will vote for “their” candidate regardless of a mountain of evidence that shows how corrupt and unfit to govern she is.”

You can repeat all you want, but unless I’m missing something, it’s pretty much impossible for the electorate to elect someone who ends up not running because of, uh, well, because they just can’t, for whatever reason that may be. My guess is that O and J will cook up something that will put paid to Hillary once and for all.

I suppose the idiocracy could write her in en masse, but I really doubt that would happen, especially if she’s headed for the hoosegow or otherwise indisposed.

And let ME repeat: Obama and Jarrett are vehemently opposed to Hillary. Like, no way do they want to see her as prez. Ever.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-15/clintons-furious-obama-after-valerie-jarrett-linked-email-leak

See, Hillary has a huge blind spot and just. doesn’t. get it. That email leak was a warning shot across the bow. They haven’t even taken out the big guns yet. I really think she’s so blind she believes her own lies and can’t distinguish between what’s real and what’s not.

There is NO WAY Obama and Jarrett are going to allow her to gain the White House.

Why don’t they like Hillary? And are they going to handpick someone else to replace her as the nominee?

They tried, with Liz Warren, but I think she turned them down and now Martin O’Malley seems to be the pick. We shall see.

Jim Webb’s my pick.

His web site for a 2016 run is up now. Time to stand and deliver.

Hillary set women back 50 years standing by Bubba.

Hillary set women back 50 years standing by Bubba.

IDK. In many situations there is something admirable about a women standing by her man. We’re not perfect and neither are they and marriage always makes that apparent.

I do think there is a lot of politics going on in the Clinton marriage but duhh no?

Clinton/Warren 2016 give the women a shot. Cant be any worse than Bush/Cheney!

Bachelors and spinsters who live at home with mom and dad

no $500000 starter homes here

Women who vote for Big Government are signaling their continued desire to be submissive. That they are choosing to be submissive to a different entity doesn’t change the basic fact.

Interesting. If true maybe women are voting more Democratic because USA’s brand of failing capitalism (for the middle-class) makes it hard for a man to make enough money these days to well-keep a “submissive” women.

USA’s winner take all supply side failure fails the traditional middle-class man/women relationship? Then how’s that for family values?

USA’s winner take all supply side failure fails the traditional middle-class man/women relationship?

Demand side is like the special Olympics where everyone is a winner, except the real world does not work like that and the reduced production makes everyone a loser(looser).

Why would a hetero woman listen to Ellen? Doesn’t make sense at all.

“Sense has “nothin’ to do with it….”

They are “celebrities”. Who have morphed into “leaders”. Which seems to mean they are automatically smarter than the wretched refuse

The whole hysteria doesn’t make sense if the proponents don’t live what they preach…
He couldn’t have ridden his bike down to the Lincoln Memorial

No. Carter got pilloried because he wore a sweater. You can’t win with the far-right no matter what you do. So the smart ones forget about them in the big picture. Noise.

And the highlighting the Everglades was much more beneficial to the cause than the carbon it produced.

Jorge Bush had it right. We have to chuck the capitalism to save it or something like this…..

Actors and causes change, but the narratives remain the same.

LOL

Obama and his minions are the quintessential right wingers in this picture.

Even if Jimmy did wear a sweater.

If Obama and the other CAGW proponents really believed that CAGW was as great a threat to the Earth as they claim in public, not only would Obama not be buying a house on the beach and the rest of them truly reducing their carbon footprint, they would all be embracing nuclear power as aggressively as they are waging war on coal. No, it is just an excuse to hand out trillions of dollars to their crony capitalist friends for technologies not cost competitive in the free market.

Embrace the irony that all this increases the consumption of oil.

If Obama and the other CAGW proponents really believed that CAGW was as great a threat to the Earth as they claim in public, not only would Obama not be buying a house on the beach

That does not pencil out with reality.

Of course Obama would be buying a beach house in spite of climate change if he wanted one The cost of one might equal a few month’s of his post-presidency earning power.

Who wouldn’t pay a few month’s “rent” to live in a beach house for a decade or so?

If he really believe it he would not buy to avoid sending a message to people that it was phony. He does not even care about the optics.

Republicans are using this “gun control” issue the way bull fighters wave red capes in front of bulls.

Don’t know why Republicans complain about “gun control”. Every thing I’ve seen in the lase 20 years is in the direction of LESS gun control.

Kansas just passed a law permitting concealed carry without training or permits. Let the carnage ensue.

Of course, getting shot by these yahoos when they are drunk at bars, or when they get pissed off about minor fender-benders, or just because they don’t like what you say, is the price the rest of us have to pay to protect their “freedom”.

Wars and Guns and maybe gays getting married. This is where, any slight difference between the dems and reps exist.

{not talking about rhetoric}

Don’t know why Republicans complain about “gun control”. Every thing I’ve seen in the lase 20 years is in the direction of LESS gun control.

When my Brit BIL (a cop) learned that in many US states you can purchase a weapon at a “gun show” without a background check of any kind he was flabbergasted.

There’s a reason Hillary and her oligarch pals like Soros and Bloomberg want to disarm the population. And no, it’s not for the children….

They said the same about Obama. What we got instead were record sales of “assault” weapons.

This is where, any slight difference between the dems and reps exist.

See the ACA, minimum wage, Citizens United, Social Security, Medicare, the estate tax, progressive taxation and Medicaid expansion.

These are huge differences on big issues.

Stop propagating that gun-show loophole nonsense.

It’s propaganda.

In my state, the gun shows are run by members-only gun clubs, and you have to be a member in order to purchase a gun at a show (anybody can enter and buy anthing besides a gun w/o being a member).

In order to be a member, you have to have passed a background check.

So there is no loophole.

So there is no loophole.

That’s not a sensible conclusion. All that means is that loophole only exists in certain states.

You are talking about Chinese developer fraud. The government made it illegal to buy land with borrowed money, so the developers set up shell companies to borrow the money and they paid cash with the other hand. Heads should roll.

I am talking about this;

“Baoding Tianwei Group Co., the unit of central government-owned China South Industries Group Corp., said it will fail to pay 85.5 million yuan ($13.8 million) of bond interest due Tuesday. Kaisa Group Holdings Ltd. became the first Chinese developer to default on its U.S. currency debt Monday.”

“China’s corporate debt is the highest in the world, former central bank adviser Yu Yongding wrote in the official China Daily last week. Companies had $14.2 trillion in debt at the end of 2013, exceeding every other country including the U.S.”

from Bloomberg 3 days ago.

OK and from yahoo, I learn that it is very much a special situation due to its inability (probably temporary) to access its parent’s assets due to a court order. Most of the SOEs are in a position to issue equity to pay off loans, this one is not. But I support the general policy as stated in the yahoo article:

Until now, only private-sector companies have defaulted in China’s domestic bond market even as state-owned enterprises have sold the vast majority of debt. Tianwei’s default highlights a shifting attitude toward financial risk, underscored by Premier Li Keqiang’s pledge to open a cooling economy to market forces and strip power from the government.

It’s the government defaulting on the USD loans. “Market forces blah blah blah” is spin. Government owned enterprise.

Which will be forced to become a privately owned enterprise by selling equity to pay off debt. I am all for that.

A major problem in China is SOEs have been able to borrow at the state own banks at will, while the private sector has had to borrow at a rate two to three times in the “shadow” banking sector. The state banks are holding most of the debt of the SOEs. Now, China is allowing private banks and is leveling the playing field between SOEs and private corporations by taking away the implicit guarantee for SOEs, this is not bad news but good news for future growth.

So you think the China government banks are lending USD to their own departments? That is a very odd contortion to make this default actually good news for you. I am imagining the red flag here is that overseas creditors will not get paid. China will “let someone fail” as you say, but just maybe it will not be themselves.

The are plethora of indian restaurants in any mid to big city these days.

I’m not certain, but I think that Colorado’s office is out in a suburb somewhere. Besides that, India a big country. From what I understand, there are different cuisines in the different regions.

We have Indian restaurants near the campus.

I can understand that they would brown bag sometimes … but they always brown bag.

I think it could be psychological. Eating out is relatively cheaper in USA than India for the income. The h1b indians are penny wise pound foolish.

And behavioral. Eating out is done in rare occasions like parties and celebrations in most of the eastern world.

The Dabbawala. Food delivery service in India. Yeah, it’s a big country. And way overpopulated. So much so, they can’t even brown bag it on public transportation in the cities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabbawala

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/indian-food-delivery-service-envy-fedex-n156291

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTkGDXRnR9I

So brown bagging is actually probably a sign of status. Can’t do that in the old country.

“price structure” should read “cost structure”.

A company should not seek to enter into a price war with a competitor unless he knows his cost structure is lower than his competitor’s cost structure.

Check out Google’s KC website for areas of service and prices.

Unfortunately, I can’t get it. Apartment dwellers are at the mercy of their landlord to decide if they want to make it available or not.

Time Warner and Co, ATT, etc. have pizzed off so many people, many are willing to pay a premium for a super fast service, even if it costs significantly more than anyone else.

Everyone around here that has Google Fiber thinks it’s A OK.

Normally people do not have two water companies offering them service, or two gas companies, or two power companies. But it’s getting to be quite common for two (or more) communication-type companies offering people services. And because of this the economic results for these communication-type companies can turn out to be quite interesting.

Stay tuned.

A company should not seek to enter into a price war with a competitor unless he knows his cost structure is lower than his competitor’s cost structure.

True and the U.S. should not have entered into an oil price war with Russia knowing that this country’s cost structure for oil was much higher than Russia’s cost structure. The Saudis are laughing all the way to the bank that Obama tried a replay of Reagan’s war and asked them to participate. Back then, we did have a lower cost structure.

Probably about as effective as QE1, QE2 and QE3 were when interest rates were already at rock bottom.

They were not at rock bottom at QE1 or even at the start of QE3, hence they were able to move down interest rates on home loans and car loans and thus generate some economic activity. Now, that we have lowered both interest rates and the FICO scores needed to obtain loans on both, where do you go for economic growth?

“Now, that we have lowered both interest rates and the FICO scores needed to obtain loans on both, where do you go for economic growth?”

Crickets, I hear crickets. I wonder if the guys at the Fed also hear crickets.

NIR. Negative Interest Rates.

They will pay you to spend their money.

One place we know that the growth is not coming from is shale oil which was responsible for a major percentage of all the growth in the U.S. economy. Rig counts down again and the interesting thing is the drop was centered in Texas and North Dakota, in fact the rest of the country had a nominal increase but not enough to make up for the drops in those states. My read: companies are not drilling anywhere but the sweet spots in the plays and when the rig is done drilling the areas around the drilling pad it is getting stacked, showing that the sweet spots are rapidly running out:

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=79687&p=irol-reportsother

Interestingly this has the WTI low in March at $42, I think it must be intraday also talks about crashing rig numbers:

http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/04/24/energy-oil-rigs-baker-hughes-idINL1N0XL1I920150424

“They were not at rock bottom at QE1 or even at the start of QE3,…”

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT…wrong answer (again!).

QE1 started in March 2009. The zero bound was effectively reached in December 2008, and the Fed Funds Rate has remained a hair’s breadth away ever since.

FEDFUNDS
Effective Federal Funds Rate, Percent, Monthly, Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency: Monthly
observation_date FEDFUNDS
2005-03-01 2.63
2005-04-01 2.79
2005-05-01 3.00
2005-06-01 3.04
2005-07-01 3.26
2005-08-01 3.50
2005-09-01 3.62
2005-10-01 3.78
2005-11-01 4.00
2005-12-01 4.16
2006-01-01 4.29
2006-02-01 4.49
2006-03-01 4.59
2006-04-01 4.79
2006-05-01 4.94
2006-06-01 4.99
2006-07-01 5.24
2006-08-01 5.25
2006-09-01 5.25
2006-10-01 5.25
2006-11-01 5.25
2006-12-01 5.24
2007-01-01 5.25
2007-02-01 5.26
2007-03-01 5.26
2007-04-01 5.25
2007-05-01 5.25
2007-06-01 5.25
2007-07-01 5.26
2007-08-01 5.02
2007-09-01 4.94
2007-10-01 4.76
2007-11-01 4.49
2007-12-01 4.24
2008-01-01 3.94
2008-02-01 2.98
2008-03-01 2.61
2008-04-01 2.28
2008-05-01 1.98
2008-06-01 2.00
2008-07-01 2.01
2008-08-01 2.00
2008-09-01 1.81
2008-10-01 0.97
2008-11-01 0.39
2008-12-01 0.16
2009-01-01 0.15
2009-02-01 0.22
2009-03-01 0.18
2009-04-01 0.15
2009-05-01 0.18
2009-06-01 0.21
2009-07-01 0.16
2009-08-01 0.16
2009-09-01 0.15
2009-10-01 0.12
2009-11-01 0.12
2009-12-01 0.12
2010-01-01 0.11
2010-02-01 0.13
2010-03-01 0.16
2010-04-01 0.20
2010-05-01 0.20
2010-06-01 0.18
2010-07-01 0.18
2010-08-01 0.19
2010-09-01 0.19
2010-10-01 0.19
2010-11-01 0.19
2010-12-01 0.18
2011-01-01 0.17
2011-02-01 0.16
2011-03-01 0.14
2011-04-01 0.10
2011-05-01 0.09
2011-06-01 0.09
2011-07-01 0.07
2011-08-01 0.10
2011-09-01 0.08
2011-10-01 0.07
2011-11-01 0.08
2011-12-01 0.07
2012-01-01 0.08
2012-02-01 0.10
2012-03-01 0.13
2012-04-01 0.14
2012-05-01 0.16
2012-06-01 0.16
2012-07-01 0.16
2012-08-01 0.13
2012-09-01 0.14
2012-10-01 0.16
2012-11-01 0.16
2012-12-01 0.16
2013-01-01 0.14
2013-02-01 0.15
2013-03-01 0.14
2013-04-01 0.15
2013-05-01 0.11
2013-06-01 0.09
2013-07-01 0.09
2013-08-01 0.08
2013-09-01 0.08
2013-10-01 0.09
2013-11-01 0.08
2013-12-01 0.09
2014-01-01 0.07
2014-02-01 0.07
2014-03-01 0.08
2014-04-01 0.09
2014-05-01 0.09
2014-06-01 0.10
2014-07-01 0.09
2014-08-01 0.09
2014-09-01 0.09
2014-10-01 0.09
2014-11-01 0.09
2014-12-01 0.12
2015-01-01 0.11
2015-02-01 0.11
2015-03-01 0.11

Here is a figure (in this case, a picture is worth a thousand digits!)…

If the figure I just posted represented an EKG, everyone would agree the patient had died.

Ford gave us the Pinto too…. we dont stop getting better!

the American way is not to quit (hear that GOP)?

Did you really miss the point?

ps. I agree The Health Care act is garbage, all it did is give insurance co’s millions more clients and the high cost stayed the same for health care. Too bad that is the best Congress can do. Profits before people!

pull out the cost of the Bush Wars and the Bush Tax cut and maybe even the Bush Recession, then ask yourself with did OBAMA due to add to the deficit.

Know your party, they love to spend, spend spend.

Reagan was the beginning of the end.

“Reagan was the beginning of the end.”

Saint Ronnie certainly did irreparable damage, but LBJ’s Great Society was the beginning of the end, IMHO.