WHICH IS IT -- MAKE YOUR CHOICE - Just a Minute for Tuesday 9/23/08

            It’s the first “official” day of Autumn – all the way up to December 21^st… So enjoy the ‘Indian Summer Weather’ while you may.

 

            That’s about the only thing that’s calm – so we should be too. The times and seasons roll along just like clockwork – and the sun still comes up in the East along about 7:27 – and the odds are that will keep on happening on schedule right through the election in November. So… don’t get fretted.

 

            It’s a difficult thing to do as Rudyard Kipling said – “If you can keep your head about you while others are losing theirs…”  There’s the crisis of the moment… and with the newly patented 24 hour news cycle you have *many* more chances to ‘lose your head’ than you did when news traveled by horseback… or even by telegraph.

 

            As I get older, I’m increasingly attracted to history – and biography -- of interesting people. Right now I’m in the first few chapters of a book dealing with American history 1814 – 1846. The towering figure of that era was Andrew Jackson the South Carolina native – unless you think he was born on the northern side of the rather indefinite border – then North Caroline claims him. When we lived in Rutherford County we found a sizeable group of natives there also claimed him. And out in western North Carolina where the Cherokee Indian Reservation sits…there are a large number of people who don’t want to have anything to do with his memory.

 

            Well – that’s history. And if you think about it, day by day you are sitting right through the unfolding (or some say unraveling) days of history in the making. Unless the Lord returns soon – someday your great grandchildren may be talking about Great Grandma and Grandpa who lived back in the quaint old days of 2008 sweated through the near melt-down of what they thought was the unsinkable financial system of the 21^st Century.  And they laugh – and think “how quaint” wonder why they couldn’t see it coming and didn’t know how to stop it – or at least get out of the way.

 

            Pick up your pen and paper and write down just what you think – right now – and why you thought it. Then tie it up with a bow and put it in a trunk marked “For the Attic” and see what happens in 40 60 or 100 years – you may be very important – at least to your grandchildren after all.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack Buttram

 

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WHICH IS IT -- MAKE YOUR CHOICE

Just A Minute – Lanny Davis, a Bill Clinton minion, suddenly is masquerading as Adam Smith – author of “The Invisible Hand” – the definitive book on leaving free market capitalism alone. So why is John McCain ‘jumping ship’ and favoring more regulation, risking turning off his conservative base?

The answer -- from offstage is – if he sticks with his conservative principles and continues telling people the "fundamentals" of the economy are sound -- grossly over-drawn new regulations will make matters worse. That’s a historical economic fact recognized even by political liberals.

Democrats, including Mr. Obama, have a similar problem: the two discharged CEO’s of  Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are Democrats, who walked off with pockets stuffed with more than fifteen million apiece like many of their huge Wall Street contributors, hedge-fund managers and derivative bubble makers.

So who’s going to blink or hang their heads in shame? There’s plenty of blame to go around – Perhaps we’ll see which party sticks closest to the truth by next week. 

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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