Comments on: Confidence

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:43:18 +0000

Based on what they are now saying about the “plan that isn’t”, the House Republicans are in revolt and there is no one to bring them in line. I think they got the message.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:34:02 +0000

yep, jam all their communication channels, fax, phone, email, whatever you can find. rattle them with the sheer volume of booooo! hisssss! whether or not they've got the cognitive equipment to recognize a good or bad plan, they've all got hyper-reactive lizard brains.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:39:28 +0000

I’ve called and e-mailed, but the only response I expect is from my Republican junior Senator, and he will put me on his e-mail list. I’m not sure my Representative can actually read, much less deal with e-mail, and my Democratic senior Senator apparently believes that he can ignore constituents.

BTW, all I got on the phone was voice mail at one office and busy signals at the other two, so I think they are getting the message that people don’t like it. The housing bubble started and burst in South and Central Florida, so there are a lot of angry people in this state.

By: LadyMin

LadyMin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:27:20 +0000

I'm so annoyed with this bail-out plan that I wrote emails to my representatives and told them what I think. Apparently they are getting swamped with email, phone calls and faxes. Good. Maybe they will do their job and devise a workable plan instead of writing a blank check. I don't know if it will do any good, but it made me feel better. Links to your representative here: Contacting the Congress

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:06:37 +0000

The $1.86 is an improvement. When oil was spiking it was to $2.00. The Brits are also experiencing their own collapsing housing bubble. The bad practices of Wall Street con artists are contagious.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:24:20 +0000

The first sentence in the snippet you quote from Auntie Beeb says it all, really. Just look at the difference in the figure when it’s expressed in dollars and pounds sterling and you’ll know precisely how bad the economy is. If I remember rightly, when I went to Britain in January 2005, the pound was worth about $1.56. The exchange rate was bad enough that instead of exchanging some of my leftover dollars (I’d only arrived in Europe the day before I went to Britain) for pounds, I chose to change euros instead. The pound is now worth about $1.86, from the way the Beeb rounded.