| Pelosi: 'Given His Dismal Record, President Bush in No Position to Lecture Congress About Fiscal Responsibility'
Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today in response to a speech in Indiana this afternoon by President Bush in which he compared Congress to "a teenager with a new credit card." Below the Speaker's statement is a fact sheet comparing the President and Congress' fiscal records. "If President Bush applied for a credit card, any bank in America would turn him down as a bad credit risk. He has put more foreign debt on the nation's credit card than all previous Presidents combined - saddling our children and grandchildren with $3.3 trillion in new debt. "At the same time, President Bush has compiled one of the worst records of job creation since the Great Depression while American families saw their incomes drop by $2,500. "Given his dismal record of maxing out America's credit card, the President is no position to lecture Congress about fiscal responsibility or economic policy.
Allen W. Wilkins, Deepwater
Allen Weston Wilkins, 6, of Deepwater, died Saturday, Oct. 27, 2007, at Children�s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. He was born Oct. 30, 2000, in Clinton, a son of Allen and Cindy Wilkin. Surviving are his parents Allen and Cindy Wilkins; four brothers, Austin, Caiden, Colton and Gavin Wilkins, all of Deepwater; a sister, Makenna Wilkins, of Deepwate; his paternal grandmother, Mabel Wilkins, of Walnut Grove; his maternal grandparents, Robert and Linda Hoffman, of Aberdeen, Wash.; and his maternal great-grandparents, Donald and Esther Hoffman, of Santa Cruz, Calif., Clifford McCune, of Aptos, Calif., and Joan Schulthies, of Nyssa, Ore. He was predeceased by his grandfather, Lavard Wilkins. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Clinton.
And Baby Makes?Big Bills
A child is priceless—but raising one can break the bank. Children born in the U.S. today will cost more than $338,000, on average, by the time they finish a public college. That's according to the parenting Web site BabyCenter (babycenter.com/cost-of-raising-child-calculator), based on College Board and Agriculture Dept. data. Send your precious offspring to a private college, and you can expect to shell out an additional $70,300 for tuition.
Broken down by region, the numbers show wide disparities. In the West, the total tab with private college tuition is $426,190, vs. $392,116 in the Midwest.
Think college is the only big tab? Just keeping a roof over junior's head will cost nearly $105,000 through age 18. Food will eat up $41,400, and health care, $17,400.
Best Online Newsletter of 2008 to Be Named by Web Marketing Association
The Best Online Newsletter in 86 industries will be judged as part of the 2008 Internet Advertising Competition awards. Companies or agencies wishing to nominate their work for consideration may do so at IACAward.org before the deadline of January 31, 2008. Simsbury, CT (PRWEB) November 19, 2007 -- The Web Marketing Association judges will select the best online newsletters of 2008 in 86 industries as part of their sixth annual Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) Awards. The IAC Awards are the first and only industry-based advertising award competition dedicated exclusively to online advertising. Companies or agencies wishing to nominate their work for consideration may do so at IACAward.org before the deadline of January 31, 2008. "Online newsletters are a critical marketing tool for many companies trying to maintain an ongoing relationship with customers and prospects," said William Rice, president of the Web Marketing Association.
The Dark Side Of The Mogambo
Total Fed Credit was up only $1.7 billion last week, and foreigners only bought up only $311 million in US government and agency securities, which seems odd that interest rates mostly fell, and the rate on 3-month T-bills dropped to 3.6%, almost a full percentage point below the Fed Funds rate. And the link at 321Gold.com showed $43 billion in repos last Thursday. A new record for the slimy banking system! And it is not just us moron Americans that are acting like corrupt scumbags, but the European Central Bank is just as shallow, as we learn from Mr. Gonzalez-Paramo, the ECB's "market operations" top dog. According to the Financial Times headline, he says that the ECB is "ready to take emergency action 'for as long as needed'". Apparently, my scathing email message ("What in the hell is 'for as long as is needed' supposed to mean?") got through, because later in the article he "clarifies" things by explaining that "To the extent that money markets remain subject to tension, we will stay there as long as necessary".
Top Scoops
One can read too much into the unprecedented rude behaviour and abrupt departure of Juan Carlos, Bourbon King of Spain, during the recent Ibero-American summit in Santiago, Chile. Clearly, when he got up and left in the middle of Daniel Ortega's lucid analysis of international relations, after first telling Hugo Chavez to shut his mouth, he was simply leaving in order to shape-shift discreetly back into George W. Bush. "What else explains the astonishing fall of the United States and its European and Pacific allies into ancien regime corrupt decay and relative decline? "The President of the United States is the Bourbon King of Spain. Obvious, once you think about it really .... .
Raid target: 'This is war'
The government's raid shutting down the Evansville, Ind., offices of Liberty Dollar was a declaration of war, company founder Bernard von NotHaus says. But the confiscation of its stockpiles of gold, silver and medallions also was just the "first battle of a long war that I intend to win!" The company makes and distributes Liberty Dollar barter currency in various denominations and had announced that it had been closed down by a raid of FBI and U.S. Secret Service officers who confiscated gold, silver, platinum, medallions, documents, "everything but the desks and chairs." "For approximately six hours they took all the gold, all the silver, all the platinum, and almost two tons of Ron Paul Dollars that were just delivered last Friday. They also took all the files and computers and froze our bank accounts," von NotHaus wrote in an urgent notification of the situation to supporters.
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