"Three Card Monte Is for Suckers"

A fellow I knew was suckered into a variation of the ‘Three Card Monte”, a “shell game” in NYC. The people running the con weren’t even very skillful. Their con was as soon as they had the man’s money a NY City cop that was part of the con appeared and they all scattered, with his money of course.

Time for Truth: Three Card Monte Is for Suckers

Eliot Spitzer and William K. Black, 03.16.2010

We believe that the Valukas report cries out for an immediate Congressional investigation. As we did with A.I.G., we demand the release of the e-mails and internal documents from the New York Fed and Lehman executives.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eliot-spitzer/time-for-truth-three-card_b_500867.html

I am beginning to think that “Republican” at least “Conservative Republican” is a social disease. Senator Jim Bunning to unemployed; Tough S*#t”.

"Jim Bunning Repeatedly Blocks Unemployment Benefits Extension, Tells Dem 'Tough Shit"

"Jim Bunning, a Republican from Kentucky, is single-handedly blocking Senate action needed to prevent an estimated 1.2 million American workers from prematurely losing their unemployment benefits next month."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/26/jim-bunning-repeatedly-bl_n_477910.html

"Senator Claire McCaskill said the decision to block the unemployment pay as well as the opportunity to buy health insurance showed how far removed some lawmakers were from the plight of out-of-work Americans." From:

NYTimes
February 25, 2010, 10:03 pm
Bunning Blocks Jobless Aid in Senate
By CARL HULSE AND ROBERT PEAR
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/bunning-objects-over-and-over/

Republican Leader

When I see a black man or woman in a political office as a Republican; my first reaction is to find out what he had to do for selling his "soul".

Michael Steele is the new leader of the Republicans. But I think that Steele does not need to be concerned about his "soul".

It turns out that Steele might only be a figurehead. The real leader of the Republican Party, the only person with any clout, is in my opinion; that recovering narcotics addict, Rush Limbaugh. .

It could be a gut busting laugh if not for this:

The Republicans say have a plan to get our country out of the Reaganomics death spiral that I believe the Republican's put us in. The only details of that plan appear to be coming from Rush Limbaugh. His plan appeared in ‪Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.

Limbaugh's plan turns out to be mostly massive tax cuts for the ultra wealthy. Do the Republican fat cats really need bigger personal ships to cruise the Mediterranean?

Reaganomics is in short:

• Eliminate manufacturing; don't make any product in the USA

• Force US citizens to buy products manufactured overseas, mostly from China.

The first two are to eliminate that bane of Conservatives; the middle class union worker.

Continuing;

• Give massive tax cuts to the wealthy

• Lower interest rates and implement new “creative” and completely unregulated financial instruments for middle class people to borrow from in order to purchase imported goods.

Those two eventually allowed the wealthy to morph into the spectacularly wealthy.

In my opinion the now secret Republican economic plan will turn out to be a rerun of the “Reagan Voodoo Economics" that caused the economic death spiral we are in.

They call the Republicans the loyal opposition. But just what and who are they loyal too? It does not appear to be the USA.