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apparently now “joe the plumber”, fresh back from being a war correspondent in the gaza strip for pajamas media, is strategizing for congressional republicans. i love it! and lately rush limbaugh and sarah palin have also made some news and further made republicans look silly! even ann coulter is helping them look silly... i thought she had been permabanned from most of the tv shows for being such a nutcase. but the funniest person of all lately is actually a democrat... rod blagojevich. man does that guy ever crack me up. his media interviews lately have been so ridiculous, i love it. i mean, i am glad the doofus got removed from office as governor of illinois.

soon our own new york state governor, david paterson, will be coming to town here. david paterson has been portrayed as a very silly person on saturday night live, of course, but i think the real david paterson is much less silly. i have been seeing the wisdom of his decision to choose former congresswoman kirsten gillibrand to be u.s. senator kirsten gillibrand since i originally posted opposing that appointment. it seems like it was a good choice, now that more information has come out about her and now that i have seen her speak on tv. she is very smart, a lot smarter than one would expect. i saw her at the nomination ceremony, when she answered a question about why she voted against the banking industry bailout in september, and her answer to that question was so brilliant it left me utterly dumbfounded. she sounded like an expert economist, except smarter. she is no placeholder... she will probably be in the senate for years, unless she pursues even higher office. governor david paterson is also very committed to closing the budget gap as his top priority, and he is a good steward of taxpayer dollars with his focus on fiscal responsibility. he has been having lots of public meetings to talk about the state’s fiscal crisis (which he inherited from previous governors) with regular people, and he has answered their questions. soon he will have one of those meetings at a place so close to my house i can walk there in such a small amount of time that i get neither frostbite nor hypothermia. i won’t be there, because it will happen when i am at my job, but maybe my parents could go. i have seen a previous one of these on c-span, so maybe this meeting will also be videotaped by c-span and broadcast on national television. i urge everyone in the binghamton area, especially my parents, to go there and try to get on national tv on c-span asking the governor questions. and don’t ask stupid questions like “what is your favorite color?”. normally that is a good question to ask politicians, just like “boxers or briefs?”, but our governor is blind, so it would be in poor taste. stick to relevant questions, like “can i have some free money in exchange for doing nothing?” i mean seriously, isn’t more money what everyone wants? rich people want lower taxes, poor people want welfare, and the middle class wants lower taxes AND welfare. the rich also want no-bid contracts, the power to have their lobbyists write legislation and be in charge of regulatory agencies, and lots of other corrupt dealings, but forget about the details and focus on the main point: everyone wants more money. the government could just print more money, but we are already doing that. the only reason this hasn’t made our currency worthless through inflation is that economic contraction actually leads to deflation, and the banks have stopped lending out money, making the multiplier on the money supply much less than before. there may be more physically existing money now, but there is less electronic money out in make-believe fantasy land, and that electronic money is just as much a part of the money supply as actual physical money. all the money in your bank account is just make-believe fantasy electronic money that does not physically exist, because banks don’t keep your money locked in a safe, they go out and loan it to other people or invest it in other stuff. lately the banks have been doing a lot less lending, making this multiplier a lot lower, which is why deflation is actually a danger despite the huge amounts of physical paper currency and coins being made by the government to increase the money supply. basically the government is trying to do the exact opposite of what banks do, in order to keep the currency stable. so maybe someone could ask the governor what he plans on doing with wall street. wall street has that name because there used to be a wall there instead of a street. maybe if wall street continues its downward spiral of doom, we can bulldoze it and build a wall there again. why? i am not sure. maybe to keep brain-eating zombies from eating will smith. or maybe that is just the movie “i am legend”, which totally sucked. anyway, i am opposed to the existence of pseudo-public pseudo-private companies/government entities like fannie mae, freddie mac, and the federal reserve for that matter. everything should be either completely public (part of the government) or completely private (like companies and charitable organizations). any entities such as fannie mae, freddie mac, or the federal reserve that are not entirely public or private need to pick a side! we’re at war! public or private? which is it? choose one and stick with it! i think the postal service and amtrak may also suffer from this problem of being partially public and partially private, and they need to pick sides too. as for whether to nationalize or privatize all the bailed-out banks, i think they should return to the private sector, after they pay off the government with interest for the money they borrowed from us taxpayers. our local city government nationalized a hotel a while back after the hotel failed to pay property taxes and its owners went bankrupt, and now the city is having a hard time selling the hotel. government should not be in the hotel management business. that is all i am saying here. oh, and my dog is cute and fuzzy and very nice. i love my dog! never forget that... how awesome my dog is. he is so awesome, he got an ear infection a few weeks ago, and then i figured out he had an ear infection and took him to the vet along with my dad, and then my dad and i used medicine the vet gave us to cure the ear infection, which is gone now. now my dog is as healthy as when we first got the mangy mutt from the dog pound, when he was still a puppy. he runs around like crazy and tears stuff to shreds with his teeth, and jumps up on people and licks them on the face. he does have a bit of a problem with barking indoors sometimes now. it is sometimes difficult to tell why he is barking. he is a very strange beast, and one of the most vicious i have ever encountered. but he loves me more than anything and i really appreciate his support and loyalty.