Arkady's Thoughts

You will start hearing about this more and more in the coming months and years and how these situations are handled could indicate the speed of our potential recovery.   As of this writing multiple cities large and small have filed for bankruptcy under crushing debt.  Vallejo in California is a perfect example of a high profile city followed by Prichard, Alabama and even Houston,Texas .  Baltimore,Detroit,Philadelphia and Chicago are looking at crippling financial woes threatening to push these major cities into bankruptcy.  There are many more cities and towns of various sizes including states like Oregon and California, whose only remaining option will be bankruptcy and yet there is one common theme running through all of these stories.  Unsustainable pensions and unions unwilling to negotiate! Bankruptcy allows the cities to modify their union contracts or simply default on the pensions all together.  I have looked at every opportuni...

Robert Gibbs may be denying this fact, but both CNN and FOX News have confirmed that indeed detainees will be getting vaccinations this in spite that Americans are experiencing shortages. If White House denies this fact despite credible information to the contrary then all responsibility falls on the CEO of the country, dear leader Obama.  Gibbs can spin his lies all day long, but he is not fooling anyone. "There is no vaccine in Guantanamo and there's no vaccine on the way to Guantanamo," he said. What Gibbs left unsaid was that, ultimately, the detainees will be given the option to be vaccinated. Right.  So in the endless Utopian desires of global peace, tranquility and American acquiescence the Obama administration is willing to sacrifice it's own citizens as long as our image is up to some fictional European standard.  Very sad.