Don’t even get me started here. Americans (I live in California) were to close minded during the election by not electing an Independent in Ron Paul, the ONLY guy in my opinion that had the economic know how, to steer us out of a depression style slide. But now we sit here, with a President threatening us with gloom and doom so that we support a socialist style pork package that will do nothing but make government bigger, and make our debt increase.

We haven’t been the strongest country in the world for quite a few years, as China sits there buying our debt to help the dollar standard limp along. Now, they have us by the balls because they can control the worth of the dollar since their is no true valuation backing it (ie. the Gold Standard which was deviated from decades ago).

The stimulus, will do nothing but fuel hyperinflation that will start once all the TARP money printing is done (it had such little effect, people probably forget that hundreds of billions of dollars were spent already). Time to start moving investment assets to Oil / Silver / Gold, so you actually have something backing the weak little dollar.

We’re over regulated and we’ll get regulated more because it could “potentially create jobs”. I waste 10% of my time annually doing compliance for SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) which was put into place to prevent banks like WaMu saying “Oh we’re financially sound” and 3 days later declaring bankruptcy. The funny thing is, NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THEY WANT from SOX. Each quarter our internal auditor change their scripts, each year the external auditors want different data. It’s doing nothing but creating jobs at the risk of crippling hundreds if not thousands of public (close to going public) companies. Now, they wouldn’t get rid of it because of the job losses .

Wow.. I went a bit off track there.. but you get the drift.. I’d rather see it done by a real interest and not a forced move via Stimulus bill.