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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
The Economy
Let's do some good news.
Existing home sales have increased three months in a row. Foreclosed property inventory seems to be falling. The supply of existing homes for sale is also falling, or at least the number of homes listed for sale has fallen.
New home buyers can get a federal tax credit for as much as $8,000. With just a little work, a buyer can use that money for a down payment, or refile their 2008 taxes to get the money this year instead of next year. Thank you, Uncle Sam.
My least favorite uncle, Uncle Sonny Perdue, is giving a very humble tax credit for buying a home. It's $1,800 spread over three years.
Uncle Sam will put $8,000 in your pocket this year. Georgia will give a $600 allowance over three years. And, these two programs expire very soon.
We either need to remind our sons, daughters, and friends of this deadline OR lobby to continue the programs until our economy gets going.
Existing home sales have increased three months in a row. Foreclosed property inventory seems to be falling. The supply of existing homes for sale is also falling, or at least the number of homes listed for sale has fallen.
New home buyers can get a federal tax credit for as much as $8,000. With just a little work, a buyer can use that money for a down payment, or refile their 2008 taxes to get the money this year instead of next year. Thank you, Uncle Sam.
My least favorite uncle, Uncle Sonny Perdue, is giving a very humble tax credit for buying a home. It's $1,800 spread over three years.
Uncle Sam will put $8,000 in your pocket this year. Georgia will give a $600 allowance over three years. And, these two programs expire very soon.
We either need to remind our sons, daughters, and friends of this deadline OR lobby to continue the programs until our economy gets going.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Conservatives have no guts
I'm posting this from another blog. The owner of the blog made the post, an Eric somebody. The blog is PeachPundit, a conservative political blog in Georgia. The rather gutless Eric calls Jimmy Carter the greatest monster in History.
Wow! A compassionate conservative on the Macon city council without guts.
Eric, if you have the power to condemn Carter and cast him out of the church, do it. That's not a bit different from damning him to Hell. Unless of course, you and your fellow church members don't expect a trip to Heaven. If your church members are damned to Hell, I ain't goin' attend your church. No one else should either. If you're going to damn Carter, stand by it all the way to the Judgment Day.
Does anyone really care that History’s greatest monster, the man who laid hands
on, endorsed, and applauded many of the most heinous regimes of the last part of
the twentieth century, has left the Southern Baptist Church? And he did so now
because of, among other things, the role of women in the church?
That, like most of what Jimmy Carter says, is simply attention getting pablum by an senile old leftist.*
The man is an unrepentant anti-semite and leftist. About the only part of the Bible he likes to take literally is the part about the Jews killing Christ. That gives him his anti-semetic justification.
Other than that, Carter wants to be free to live as he wants, not as God wants him to. Good riddance.
* I did delete the part about the pearly gates as that can offend
some peoples sensibilities and I really shouldn’t speculate on what St. Peter
will do when Jimmy approaches the gates.
Wow! A compassionate conservative on the Macon city council without guts.
Eric, if you have the power to condemn Carter and cast him out of the church, do it. That's not a bit different from damning him to Hell. Unless of course, you and your fellow church members don't expect a trip to Heaven. If your church members are damned to Hell, I ain't goin' attend your church. No one else should either. If you're going to damn Carter, stand by it all the way to the Judgment Day.
Monday, July 20, 2009
It ain't in the Constitution!
Did you ever hear the conservative idiot say, "It ain't in the Constitution!" I bet you have. So where are the words, "A Human Fetus has rights?" Or, "Birth Control is controlled by the legislative branch?"
Let's shock some Republicans with their own rhetoric!
Video
You'll want to watch around the 25th minute when Sen. Franken asks Judge Sotomayor is the words "abortion," "birth control," or "privacy" appear in the Constitution. The Judge gives a great lesson as to whether words MUST be in the Constitution.
A good lesson for us all.
Let's shock some Republicans with their own rhetoric!
Video
You'll want to watch around the 25th minute when Sen. Franken asks Judge Sotomayor is the words "abortion," "birth control," or "privacy" appear in the Constitution. The Judge gives a great lesson as to whether words MUST be in the Constitution.
A good lesson for us all.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
The other bad news
Unemployment in Georgia is now over 10% and expected to continue rising. I expected that. I see unemployment as something that changes in response to the economy. I mean that it takes a while for employers to let people go. Before letting people go, some monthly report, or weekly report, or even a quarterly report has to show hard evidence of a turn down.
Yes, some managers might act when the work load appears to be falling. But, how do they know that isn't just a normal fluctuation? So firing happens after things get bad. And, rehiring won't happen until after reports show good things are happening and a continuing trend shows the good things aren't a fluctuation.
Meanwhile, another 1.5 million people are facing foreclosure on their homes.
Again, we must change the foreclosure process in Georgia to allow homeowners a legal process. As it is, lenders can foreclosure and auction the property without no court records or impartial review by the state.
It ain't right to take a man's house without due process. Let's make that an issue in 2010.
Links to stories.
Employment
Foreclosures
Yes, some managers might act when the work load appears to be falling. But, how do they know that isn't just a normal fluctuation? So firing happens after things get bad. And, rehiring won't happen until after reports show good things are happening and a continuing trend shows the good things aren't a fluctuation.
Meanwhile, another 1.5 million people are facing foreclosure on their homes.
Again, we must change the foreclosure process in Georgia to allow homeowners a legal process. As it is, lenders can foreclosure and auction the property without no court records or impartial review by the state.
It ain't right to take a man's house without due process. Let's make that an issue in 2010.
Links to stories.
Employment
Foreclosures
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