{"id":9255,"date":"2009-07-21T11:30:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T18:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=9255"},"modified":"2009-07-24T12:43:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T19:43:15","slug":"all-is-well-a-tin-foil-hat-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9255\/all-is-well-a-tin-foil-hat-production\/","title":{"rendered":"All is Well&#8230; (A Tin Foil Hat Production)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick check on the current status:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/cbo-healthcare-bill-exceeds-1-trillion-2009-06-15.html\" target=\"_blank\">CBO came out with a non-partisan report<\/a> showing that Health Care Reform, as it stands now, will not only fail in its main purpose of lowering health care costs &#8211; but will actually <em>raise<\/em> costs by <strong>over $1 trillion<\/strong>!\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/07\/citing-cbo-directors-statements-senate-centrists-urge-slower-pace-for-health-care-reform.php?ref=fpa\" target=\"_blank\">Senators from both sides of the aisle are urging a slower pace<\/a> to take a better look at the tremendous costs.\u00a0 <em>In related news, President Obama is urging Congress to get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5kC-wrDhbVU\" target=\"_blank\">health care legislation out next month<\/a>!<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Air Force, the current and former Defense Secretaries as well as  the President of the United States have all agreed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/07\/16\/AR2009071603872.html\" target=\"_blank\">there is no need for more  F22 fighter planes<\/a> beyond those currently contracted.\u00a0 Senators from states where the F22 is built,\u00a0 however,  <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.com\/aerospace\/archives\/171614.asp\" target=\"_blank\">have taken $369 million from an environmental clean-up fund and tacked it onto a defense bill<\/a> in order to keep building military planes nobody wants during a recession no one can afford, thus creating pork no one will eat.\u00a0 <em>In related news, the budget deficit reaches a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/us-budget-deficit-rises-above-1-trillion-2009713140510\" target=\"_blank\">record $1 trillion<\/a> and a little noticed study established that Congress can&#8217;t even <\/em>spell<em> the word &#8220;irony&#8221;.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=a2jo3RK2_Aps\" target=\"_blank\">Goldman-Sachs reports RECORD earnings<\/a> during the worst recession this nation has seen since the Great Depression.\u00a0 Shortly after repaying $10 billion in tax-payer bailouts, Goldman trounced analysts&#8217; estimates and continues to reap billions in profits trading in derivative markets.\u00a0 (Actually, they trade in unregulated tertiary derivatives &#8211; that&#8217;s a derivative of a derivative of a derivative of something that actually exists, for those of you keeping score at home).\u00a0 In the mean time, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cit.com\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">CIT<\/a> &#8211; a company specializing in loans to small businesses and entrepreneurs &#8211; apparently serves no national interest to the Fed and has been told:\u00a0 &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hispanicbusiness.com\/news\/2009\/7\/16\/smallbusiness_lender_cit_denied_bailout.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Enough is enough.\u00a0 No more bailouts<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0 (No soup for you!)\u00a0 and is desperately searching for funding while on life support.\u00a0 <em>In related news, keys members of the Treasury, the Fed, the administration&#8217;s key economic advisers and the principles of Goldman-Sachs have all agreed on a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9255\/all-is-well-a-tin-foil-hat-production\/#more-9255\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick check on the current status: The CBO came out with a non-partisan report showing that Health Care Reform, as it stands now, will not only fail in its main purpose of lowering health care costs &#8211; but will actually raise costs by over $1 trillion!\u00a0 Senators from both sides of the aisle are urging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15125,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15125\/warren-buffetts-secretary-an-open-letter\/","url_meta":{"origin":9255,"position":0},"title":"Warren Buffett&#8217;s Secretary &#8211; 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