SHALL WE SERVE THAT WITH HOT SAUCE? - Just A Minute Radio for 03-04-09 Wednesday

            Howdy… It’s almost half way through the week.

 

            And the Senate is in a dither… the spending plan needs to be passed by Friday or the government shuts down. Hmmm – maybe not such a bad idea. More and more the talk in the Senate Finance Committee’s hearing room seems to center on the question of just how much money can we borrow anyway?  Chairman Bernake does not seem to know – We’ve never borrowed this much before, he says.

 

            Like we’ve said… we’re in uncharted waters… perhaps over our head. At least the markets so far don’t seem to be able to touch bottom.

 

            Are we just ‘riding it down’ or ‘waiting for the *best* time to buy?’ Nobody – including the experts – seems to know. A good friend sent me a quote by Winston Churchill – the WWII Prime Minister of Great Britain that says: “To think we can spend (tax) ourselves out of recession, is like a man standing in a bucket thinking he can lift himself by the handle.” Makes sense to me.

 

            All the economics I see from example and from study, seems to show America is on a collision course with reality. There may not be enough pieces to pick up.  Best to recall this:

 

            ” Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God. “ (Psalm 20:5-7)

 

               Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack Buttram

 

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SHALL WE SERVE THAT WITH HOT SAUCE?

BB:  Jist A Minit – Mr. Jack – Ah heered a ‘splosian come’ frum th’ Senate chamber.

Homer: Ah heered a BIG litnin’ strike when hit was a-snowin’ Sunday nite.

Jack: That was just a warm up for the real thing, Homer.

MizP: Well whut was hit, Mr. Jack?

Jack: It was Senator McCain hitting the ceiling – twice.

BB: What was a-goin’ on?

Jack: Senator McCain told the Senators what was on his mind. Specifically he told Senator Inouye from Hawaii he wasn’t at

all approving of his two million dollar earmark to promote astronomy in Hawaii.

BB: Not good, huh?

Jack: Really not good.

Homer: Whut else did he say?

Jack: He gave two speeches back to back.

MizP: Like a double barrel full of buckshot?

Jack: You can say that again. He shook the rafters …

Homer: So whut did he say?

Jack: Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank caught the speech and laid it out in yesterday’s paper, noting Republican Senator Cochran of Mississippi – ranking Republican on the appropriation Committee supported the bill  -- That fired off McCain’s fuse …  

 MizP: Sounds like thangs got hot.

Jack: McCain pounded his desk and said: “There’s three kinds of Congressmen: Republicans, Democrats and appropriators.”

BB: He was a-swattin’ in ever direction.

Jack: “I want to freely acknowledge Republicans are guilty of this as well,” McCain said and his buddies said Old Mack was back in full fury.

MizP: Well hit makes me angry ta' heer of spendin’ 1.7 billion for researchin’ pig odor  in I-o-way…

Homer: How ‘bout 6.6 million for termite research –

MizP: Or $607 thousand fer tattoo removal  --  

Homer:  $951, thousand fer sustainable Las Vegas.

BB: Whut in th’ worl does ‘at mean?  Jack: I don’t know – but maybe by next week we can find out.  I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

 

 

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