What would happen if you were put into a store that had everything you needed or wanted or could possibly use and were told just take what you need or want and the only thing you had to do was leave something of value there. Either something you made or grew or some service you can provide. No money or anything.

With the approaching SOTU speech by Obama I know some may wish to focus on specific policies said or not said.  But what I will find interesting to watch during this fundamentally pure political theater event is the theoritical framing which builds with his discourse.  

          
                  THE 40TH PRESIDENT OF THE USA

Several years ago I watched a comedian on the Comedy Channel describe Ronald Reagan thusly:

Ronald Reagan had as much to do with the Reagan Administration as a hood ornament on a 1956 Buick had with driving its owner to work.

 

In artappraiser's comment to Wolfrum's Keith Olbermann post, she links to the Times' contribution to the cover story.

Not to repeat my post on Comcast's necessary involvement, but had it actually been true that it had just stood on the sideline every Comcast shareholder would right now be on his way to his lawyer to sue them.  For negotiating an acquisition without the usual prohibition against cardinal changes prior to closing. 

Maybe the Speaker started something. If men are now allowed to cry in public, the one writing these words have certainly availed himself of this new privilege in the past two weeks. From hearing that Congresswoman Giffords had opened her eyes and the heroism of so many who allowed her to live, and saved as many lives as possible when her fears were realized and a young man who was so easily able to purchase a gun to kill her, to hearing again the first words I can recall having been spoken as a president was inaugurated, the tears have flown very freely.

Geithner's latest FSOC report attempts to buttress JPMorgan but unwittingly provides Progressives a road map to real reform.

Simon Johnson made mince meat of Geithner's latest report which blatently attempts to enable the, imo, Daley-Dimon plan to expand JPM.  www.economix.blog.nytimes.com/2011/20.

But thanks to Geithner, the report is the perfect bogey for Progressive bank reformers to dissect for years to come. In other words if this is the best they can do in defense of the status quo, it's a rich target.

I am what one would call a liberal-libertarian. At least that's what the political compass says. I tend to be socially conservative and economically very left of center. I don't like the terms progressive or liberal since their means are too open to interpretation.  I do favor more local control and implementation of various social and economic programs, and this piece by Sam Smith sums up my thoughts on this quite well. here are a few excerpts from it, with my thoughts as well.

Crude as it may be, best thoughts come to us in unlikely places.

Alas, the choices are not as easy to come by.

The Thinker must be creative with his choices.

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