WTF

WHAT THE FUCK????????
I am self employed, unfortunately and fortunately.  As most people know I farm for a living.  I hate farming by the way.  I have been watching the stock market and the commodity market today.  I sell my crops on the commodity market not the stock market.  As most people who have not been hiding in a cave the economy is completely in the shitter!  The stock market fell below 7000 today and the commodity markets have also been falling, and fell a good bit today.  When the FUCK is this shit going to stop?  If I lived in a big city with tall sky scrapers, I would start watching for falling people.  I just can’t find anything good lately.  Crude oil fell more than $4 today so why the fuck is it still $1.70.  Gold and silver are also down today.   Unemployment is high.  I have a solution to this problem however.  If we kick out all the illegal immigrants then that will open something like over 10 million jobs.  I am glad that I am self employed because at least I don’t have to worry about being laid off.  However, being self employed means that if things get any worse I am going to be unemployed and let me tell you something.  Try going to get a job and going to an interview and telling the interviewers that you are used to being in control and the boss.  They will not even give enough time to explain what you did in your business before they say thank you we are going in a different direction.  Well the Dow just closed and it looks like it is going to close down around 300 points.  I am not happy today!!!!!!!
 

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WTGDF

WTGDF

 

Why for the love of god are gas prices going up?

 

I read a news story today about how oil is slipping to new lows, yet gas prices are going up due to refineries cutting back on production.  Now I realize the the oil companies are not to blame for our nations current economic shit hole, but mother fucker,,,,,,they sure as hell did not help the fuck out at all when they made gas go to over $4.  One of the reasons a lot of people could not pay there mortgages, other than they had no business buying a champaign house on a RC Cola budget, is because they had to make a choice.  Put $100 worth of gas in a YUGO to go to work to be able to at least eat, or sit at home for the next 3 months eat and wait on the forclosure to set in.  I am no for govt stepping in and running everything, but something has to be done.  I think we as a nation should start a boycott on gas for about a week.  That should be enough to get the greedy fucks attention.  Oh by the way Exxon Mobile posted record profits at a time when every other company is folding up and going home.  

In case you have not noticed I am extremely pissed off about this.  I am sorry if this blog does make sense.  I feel better now.

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Here are a few numbers to make you sick.

Our population according to the 2000 census was 281,421,906.  I am sure it has gone up since then but I dont have those numbers, so just go with me on this.

 

The total cost of the Bail out plan, the stimulus plan, and the other money promised to other programs according to CNN today is 3.3 trillion dollars.  I want my taxes back but that ain't happening.  So here go a fe numbers to make your head explode.

 

3.3 trillion dollars is enough to give 91.66 million americans  $36000 dollars, or 110 million americans $30000 dollars. 

Let say the average home in america cost 250,000 dollars( I am not sure of this but it seems reasonable)  3.3 trillion would pay off 13.2 million home mortgages.

3.3 trillion dollar would employ 10 million americans for 11 years at 30000 dollars per year.

3.3 trillion would give every man, woman, and child in the United States (according to 2000 census) 11726 dollars.

Now I know everyone here can do math and these numbers are not all that hard to come up with,  SO  why the hell can our elected officials not use a calculator? I realize that just giving money away is not the answer.  I am sitting here trying to do my penny anni little budget for my farm and with today current prices i cant make it work out.  So as i sit here and watch all the news and the economists talking about what all this money is going to do, I am curious to how I can get my hands on just a little of that money.  What little bit i need will not even be 1 minute's worth of interest on that 3.3 trillion dollars.  That is all I would need to balance my budget and probably have enough left over to hire a part time person to help during the busy part of the year.   So here are some figures for that:

 

The interest on 3.3 trillion dollars at 5.5% annually(this is the interest rate at which i am paying on land i just bought) is exactly $3143.60 per second.  That is $188616.00 per minute.  Yea I can make my numbers work on that and pay for a full time person and live fat on the hog while doing it. 

HAVE A NICE DAY

 

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Weight Loss--Week 2

Well today is weigh in for week two of the diet that my wife and I are on.  We are doing weight watchers online.  This week was a tough week for our diet.  We had a lot of social engagements this week.  There was a lot of eating out and at parties.  As anyone knows it is hard to stay on a diet when you are busy with work and social engagements.  On the other hand my wife is absolutely an amazing cook and she has been able to cooks some good, healthy meals that were delicious. As of yesterday at lunch we are fully back on track with our diet.  We are using the Weigh Watchers online.  It is great because we can track what we are eating.  It is very simple to use and by tracking what we eat and how many points it is worth, it makes us very alert to what we are eating.  I think this is helping as much if not more than eating healthy.  We now to the part you have been waiting for.  This week my wife only loss a half pound,  she is pissed and now is more determined.  I think this week, week 3, is going to be a big loss week.  My loss, for week 2, is just 2 pounds.  This really pissed my wife off becasue basically I really fell off our diet.  I was not trying as hard because I did not want to blow my wife out on the amount loss.  The first week I loss 6 and she only loss 3, she was pissed but not surprised.  Well on with week 3.  Next update  on the diet next Monday.

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Global Warming Does Exist!!

I know most of you are think that the global warming thing is bullshit.  The temps around the country are at record lows and overall we are having record snow fall.  I just read C_dog's blog and he lives in Jefferson city MO.  I live in Memphis tn.  When I was a kid (i am 36) we used to get snow here.  It would snow 1-3 inches 3-4 times a year.  Our temps would be in the single digits sometimes, teens often, 20's everynight.  Our summers would be hot but not as hot as we have now.  Our temps during the summer would be in the 90's but would rarely hit 100 or even go into101-110, and never above 110.  Cdog lives in central mo, and according to his blog he wants snow and is not getting any.  When I was a kid they got a lot of snow in that area.   Now today here is what we have here.   We dont see snow at all, we dont even see ice anymore.  We rarely even get below freezing(current cold excluded)(even a blind squirrel finds a nut everyonce in a while).  they will predict snow flurries for use a couple times during the winter but it never happens.  My theory on this prediction is that the grocery stores need a boost.  When winter weather is predicted here it causes a full on panic.  Our summers are hot as hell( i love them by the way) we will have 3 weeks of it easily hitting over a 100 everyday and will often get to 110.  This kinda sucks because i am a farmer and it really hurts my crops and my income.  It very rarely rains between july 1 and sept 1.  I bet we won't get 2-3 inches of rain during those months.  I keep reading in everyones blog about how they want spring and for the snow to stop.  There is a theory in agriculture that all the snow that occurs in the midwest and north is one of the reasons for such fertile soil in that area.  I believe Global warming is partially true.  I believe that the world is warming up, however I also believe that it is cyclical.  One day we will have scientist telling us how we are causing global cooling.  Well thats it for today, Monday I will be blogging about the diet that my wife and I are on.   Till then  stay warm you lucky snowed in bastards.

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