The Great Bailout - Economics is Not an Exact Science

by Gary Schubach, Ed.D., A.C.S.

For the last three hours I have been reading articles favoring and opposing the federal "Bail-out:" compromise. MSNBC featured some thoughtful pieces such as:

• Foreclosures are key element missing in plan
• Democrats got many concessions in bailout but GOP held fast to not tying $700 billion proposal to homeowner relief
• The winners, and losers in a post-bailout U.S.

IF the bill is going to be defeated, it would have to involve an unprecedented coalition of liberal and conservative lawmakers. Dennis Kucinich has issued a short statement saying that he will oppose the vote tomorrow although his reasons and what he would do were not clear enough for me. Many conservative republicans are preparing to oppose the "Bail-out:" and I want to know why they will vote against and what they want done. I want to know how Ted Kennedy is going to vote on this and why. I thank Warren Buffett for his predictions of market meltdown and I would like to know precisely how that meltdown will effect his company, Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

I am interested in what both Oberman and O'Reilly think about about the bailout. We might have some strange bedfellows.

If this bail-out goes through, there is no guarantee that the stock market may not yet meltdown from inflation and rising unemployment. We have two becoming problems that must be resolved or they will sink the economy down the line and in their resolution we will become a better country. First the energy crisis and the patriotic duty to pull together to find cheap, abundance and ecologically benign sources of energy so that so much of our resources can stay at home to be used to design the transportation systems of the future. The other is the health care crisis which involves the largest per capita spending (including uninsureds) in the world and yet 50 million people have no coverage. Not resolving this so that health insurance is a right and not a privilege will also lead to economic "meltdown."

I don't attempt to know the right actions but instead to be able to ask the right questions. We should neither be afraid to act or act from fear.

Again I appeal to people to refrain from person attacks between now and election, stay with the issues and be certain of any claims or allegations.

Liberator Ramp Makes Cameo Appearance in "Burn After Reading"

I saw the Coen brothers new film, Burn After Reading, last night. I am a big Coen brothers fan but the main reason that I went to see the film was that I understood that the Liberator^®Ramp appeared in the film. As someone who is a Sexpert for the Liberator company, I obviously believe in the value of the product to help people get the most fulfillment possible from sex. In truth, the Liberator Ramp appeared rather inconsequentially in 3 scenes. Two of them were George Clooney entering and leaving the home of one of his lovers and the third was a long shot where you could see the Liberator Ramp on top of the bed in a way that would suggest possible rear entry position. These scenes happened very quickly and I seriously doubt most viewers of the film understood what they were seeing and what use the Ramp has. There were more elaborate sequences in which George Clooney builds a home-made version of a Love Machine that highlights a thrusting penis. Neither the chair nor the Liberator Ramp appeared in the end credits.


The Coen brothers make dark comedies and Burn After Reading was the darkest of comedies about the CIA and the culture of its employees as well as the Washington social circles in which they travel. The marital infidelity and musical beds were so complicated that even the CIA couldn't keep track of who was sleeping with whom. I clearly recognize that there is an epidemic of marital infidelity and dishonesty in relationships. I hope that the viewing public realizes that this is something that is not restricted to the Washington Beltway social scene but is occurring across the country, cutting across all political perspectives, religions and levels of culture. This lack of truthfulness is not only a tragedy but is causing untold personal pain along with serious social ramifications. When are people ever going to learn how to talk to each other honestly in relationship? - Doctor G