to your point, if we, really, wanted an ‘Infrastructure’ project that’d do some good, we’d tear up all the ‘Roads’ that lead to W.D.C. y Wall St., dig up the 10th Amendment, and the other 9, while we’re at it, and Remember what it’s like to be a Republic, again.

Amendment 10 – Powers of the States and People. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Am10

States Receiving Least in Federal Spending Per Dollar of Federal Taxes Paid:

1. New Jersey ($0.62)
2. Connecticut ($0.64)
3. New Hampshire ($0.68)
4. Nevada ($0.73)
5. Illinois ($0.77)
6. Minnesota ($0.77)
7. Colorado ($0.79)
8. Massachusetts ($0.79)
9. California ($0.81)
10. New York ($0.81)

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2004/09/red_states_feed.html

Since CA is now broke I am hoping we can recoup all the excess money we have paid in supporting these states:

States Receiving Most in Federal Spending Per Dollar of Federal Taxes Paid:

1. D.C. ($6.17)
2. North Dakota ($2.03)
3. New Mexico ($1.89)
4. Mississippi ($1.84)
5. Alaska ($1.82)
6. West Virginia ($1.74)
7. Montana ($1.64)
8. Alabama ($1.61)
9. South Dakota ($1.59)
10. Arkansas ($1.53)

http://newstribune.com/articles/2008/12/11/news_local/020local01reapply.txt

Nixon making state non-merit employees reapply
By DAVID A. LIEB
Associated Press Writer

Gov.-elect Jay Nixon is asking hundreds of state employees to justify their jobs or lose them.

Nixon’s gubernatorial transition team has sent letters to about 600 employees whose jobs are not covered by the state merit system. The letter obtained Thursday by The Associated Press says employees must reapply for their jobs by Dec. 23 if they want a chance to keep their positions.

Now.

About that Johnny Walker Black….

I told if she was patient….ie next year….she might get the place for under $200K.

Small town just south of me just lost its Office Depot (120 jobs), Fasco Inc (400 jobs), and the local university instituted a hiring freeze.

It’s going to be a long cold dark winter.

I’m not a violent person….but I’d pay to see Alan Greenspan, Phil Gramm, and Hank Paulson publicly drawn and quartered. I don’t blame Bush….he’s too simple to understand anyway. It would be like beating a puppy for pissing on the floor.

Fuck me….I need a drink.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Thursday there were 31,110 auto fatalities the first 10 months of 2008. That’s a 9.8 percent decline over the same period in 2007, when there were 34,502 fatalities.

So it’s not all bad. And speaking from Vermont, the hahd times are not hea. We ARE watching the IBM plant in Essex Junction, though.

SRS no resistance until 120.
Hmm… I missed the midday move and have been pondering what to do about tomorrow.
Let’s see how we close. Still stuck in the 870-905 range for now.

What has happened to the 3pm trading surge, are the hedge funds done with meeting redemptions?

If the automakers get their deal who is next. The airlines, they didn’t get one last time, but this could be different the door will be officially open.