Ummm, I shorted China briefly, in October of last year, and made a little money. But whatever investments you make, you need to have trailing sell stops, to limit losses in case you're wrong. Which put me out of most of the markets at 12,500. Saved my career, actually.
I wonder if you have a brain in your head at all. Bush's average was just over $400 billion a year. Do you know what the word "average" even means? It means that some are more, some are less. Can't you even pull up the numbers yourself, and do a little quick division? Godalmighty.
With the budgeting, imagine you have a household budget. This much income, less mortgage, less notes, less insurance, less groceries. Then one month your wife falls and breaks her wrist, and she has to miss two weeks of work. You can either borrow the money to pay the doctor, or you can write a check. But it's getting paid for, now. That's the difference between budgeting for the Iraq War, or funding it through a continuing resolution--adding the borrowing as you go.
Air America is no more, and MSNBC last in the ratings, not because they're not entertaining, because they are. It's because they're dumb. They don't understand even the basics of how the government works, and by extension, I have to believe it's true of their listeners also. I keep hearing about how awful Bush's deficits were, and the same people don't even care that Obama's will be more than twice as high, AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE! This turd actually gets up in his state of the union address, says that Bush inherited surpluses for years to come, then decides to make Bush's deficits look tiny in comparison to his. Unbelievable.
I'm taking a hike. Literally. Gorgeous mountain day today.
