For anybody wondering how the approval rating of Congress (more like the dis-approval rating) could possibly get any lower than its current  9%, the question has finally been answered.  Today the so-called Super Committee, comprised of six Republicans and six Democrats, announced that they had failed to come to an agreement on how to remove $1.2 trillion in spending from the federal budget over a period of ten years. Although the Super Committee utterly failed to come up with a sensible plan for deficit reduction, the $1.2 trillion will still …

By the end of this week, three quarters of the year 2011 will behind us, leaving only a few months left until year end.   So far, 2011 hasn’t really given Americans too much to cheer about, and certainly hasn’t lived up to the expectations for a decent economic recovery.  I suppose the best thing that can be said about 2011 is that the things didn’t get a whole lot worse.   In fact, the year 2011 has taught Americans the following valuable lessons:
1.  The “Recession of 2008” has now lasted four …

Several years ago, the American film industry produced a movie entitled “The Day After“.  The basic theme of the film was how dramatically and quickly human life would change after the holocaust of a nuclear war.  In a very graphic manner, it showed how American society would soon descend into chaos and anarchy once it was deprived of all the basic supplies and services that we all take for granted.  It would not take long before moral values were discarded, and the “law of the jungle” took hold.  The power …