Killin Me Chemically

Hey Barry:

It's official - them chemicals is killin us. Read it here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/06/AR2010050603813.html

Don need no more cancer from food, air or water and better Federal regs would help us.

Itsa potential FDR thang, Barry, if'n y'all git on it.

Your pal

Bi-Partisan

Hey Barry:

Couple things:

Another FDR moment when y'all asks for a law to keep corps outa the elections. This is a good'un - keep on it.

And, I hears y'all calling for more civilized process in makin laws. An, I'll do what lil bit I can, but looky Barry, sumtimes them Reps is jes effin outrageous. But, Ima suppose callin em out ain't gonna make em feel better. An ifn they feels bad, they gonna make us pay even more. Sounds like a threat to me, but I'll cut em some slack on your say so.

Here's an idea - why not do a real FDR by goin over they heads an direct to us voters. Course, y'all been doin that alreddy, but mebbe is time to ramp it up.

How bout sumthin like this: Les say Rep Zpqrs from the great red state of North Bgfopmst is bad mouthin sum law we gotta have to prevent the good ol USA from implodin.

Here's wot y'all can do: Travel to his district and maka bunch speeches where y'all says that the esteemed Rep Zpqrs is a fine gentleman who is kind to his dogs and children and he is really trying to do the best for the country, but he's jes a little misguided. W'all gotta help him out with sum wisdom cuz he surely does not understand the effects of what he's sayin on you real folks out there.

F'rexample, he is sayin that this here new law we workin on will kill babies and install socialism. Now of course thas jes ridiculus - an mebbe even he knows it - but is jes politics.

So folks, here's wot we gotta do - we gotta pass this law in Congress because if'n we don't pass it, there is a good chance that our country, the Great USA, will decline so that your grandchildren will have to live on the street. Now of course we don want that, so here's what you can do - call the Rep's office at this phone number on the card I am handing you now and tell his staff that your president says this law is important to our country and our way of life.

Mebbe if enuf of y'all calls that neumber, Rep Zpqrs may jes have a change of heart and let us in DC pass that new law we needs so much.

Well Barry, I thinks y'all gets the idea - put the voters on the Reps an let us work on him. An, do that on a case by case basis on jes the law that he is stallin. No need ta go after his entire being or office - jes his vote on that one law.

OK, Barry, thas bout as bipartisan as I can git. I only gots one party, the USA party.

Your pal,

Rep Shell Game

Hey Barry:

Its oficial: the Reps gonna lie to us cuz they thinks they can.

Here's 'Let them eat cake' McConnell: "You know, what happens on Monday or Tuesday versus what happens later is something largely lost on the general public," Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/04/26/national/w043849D01.DTL#ixzz0mP3Tl0BB

Call em on it Barry. Git sumbudy to track they speeches an call em on it.

Your pal

Old Time Bankin

Hey Barry:

I knows lotta work went inta the bank laws an we needs em passed.

But I was jes thinkin on how good ol FDR did it and here's my memory.

Now I knows that thangs have changed a little and even mentioning this old stuff will cause bankers an their water boys, the Grand Auld Guy Rep Party [GAGREP], to puke a lot, but is worth memberin how things were in the 'good ol days' which sum of us even remember today. What follows ain't xactly suited to today, but mebbe can work as guideposts.

Rule was to separate different things inta different banks with an absolute wall so's one type bank couldn't do another bank's business.

Commercial banks - take deposits for checking accounts and make business loans - no loan longer than 10 years - and consumer loans shorter than 5 years. Commercial property loans no longer than 15 years. All loans held by originating bank until paid off. Bank subject to reserve requirements, deposits protected by FDIC. Reserves are cash and T bills only - no BS stocks or derivitaves.

Savings and loans - take savings deposits, issue no checking accounts, and make long term loans only on residential real estate - houses and apartments. Subject to reserve requirements and depositers have FDIC protection. Must retain ownership of each loan for minimum of five years.

Investment banks - make investments; can NOT make loans or issue checking or savings accounts. No reserve requirements, no help.

Surance companies - are not banks. They cannot make loans or issue checking accounts and are NOT protected from stupid decisions. Insurance products are highly regulated.

Y'all wonderin where all the money gonna come from ta make loans since this type rules ties them weasels hands. Well Barry, ya gotta know that they is a LOT of money floatin round. All the money that workin folks don't earn in wages gits cumulated inta them Prince accounts. An them Princes gotta lotta money to make new investments. Won be no trouble ta git the money to start new banks. No trouble at all.

Here's whas good bout them old rules - we, the Good Ol USA, had 50 years of prosperity, zero bank failures and a solid middle class.

Here's whas bad - it's BORING. Them gamblin bank weasels wants excitement and they won be gittin none.

OK, Fine. Let em go to the track and buy fast cars an kill theirselves in a hunnert ways. But, here's da ting: I DON WANNA PAY FOR THAT NO MORE.

Them weasels hate those rules and they'll squirm and burrow and bribe til they gits em changed. We knows that.

But, ever time we breaks down the walls tween these things and let the bank weasels do all type business, they gonna screw us. Seen it before and we'll see it again.

As for me, Ima sick of it.

So Barry - put them weasels on a short leash, if'n you don't they's gonna eat us for lunch and we can kiss the good ol USA bye bye.

Your pal,

Queen Meg

Hey Barry:

Ya gotta see this - itsa about satirical Queen Meg who's doggin Meg Whitman who's runnin for guviner of the Golden State.

See it here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=62072&tsp=1

Queen Meg's motto: 'Health care for the nobility, prison for the rest; The economy's too bad for jobs, so let's have a monarchy'

The real Queen Meg jes wants to buy the job - she won't meet with press or real people or even debate the plebes.

Your pal,

Foot Shooting By US Spies

Hey Barry:

Looks like mebbe the US spy guys done shot themselves in the foot in KYRGYZSTAN.

Read Jeff Stein's musings here: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/04/ex-army_intelligence_officer_f.html

Don tell the Hillster - she'll be real pissed.

Your pal,

Pulitzer Cartoonist Nails Banks

Hey Barry:

Y'all gotta watch this mebbe 60 second cartoon:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/04/21/fioreborn.DTL

Hard to laugh cuz it's true.

For more, y'all can read wot happened to Greece after the Golden Sox crooks 'helped' them folks: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/04/22/national/w072918D11.DTL

Your pal,

KYRGYZSTAN Anarchy

Hey Barry:

Gettin worse over there and turnin to anarchy.

Y'all can watch an RT video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7vNuNFIJ6Y&feature=player_embedded

Medvedev has tasked his Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov with protecting Russian citizens and their base.

Mebbe we ask the Kyrgyz government if we can help, then work with the Russians and send in some troops to restore order.

Them folks gotta have a bill of rights, workin police and courts and buncha other stuff.

We care cuz we gotta base there an a war goin on.

Like Mickey Mouse's Uncle Walt said: It's a small world after all.

Your pal,

After Them Weasels

Hey Barry:

I guess y'all goin to the Apple an sellin yo bank regulations.

Caint hurt nuthin - jes don expect too much.

Jes remember, the banks done bought and paid for the Reps and y'all aint gonna git nuthin from them thas real or actually works.

Your pal,

Taxin the Princes

Hey Barry:

Good on ya that y'all is keepin the Prince Tax, leastways thas what Timmy says.

Read it here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/04/18/national/w050646D03.DTL

Thas another FDR moment.

Keep em comin.

Your pal,

Fixin Them Banks

Hey Barry:

Y'all on it! Ima lovin it.

Caught your talk on reform here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-KtZDi7pcY&feature=channel

Couple things, one, fuggit bout bipartisanship. Them reps jes carryin the bank weasels water - git this done soon as ya can.

Two, sure as God made little green apples, we gonna be screwed again unless banks wot take deposits and make loans can NOT sell stocks or insurance.

Please fix that one Barry,

An, jes in case y'all have any tears for them bank weasels, read bout Golden Sox bettin against the deals they was sellin here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/17/BU2S1D01BG.DTL&type=business

Makes ya wanna puke.


Your pal,

Namin Names an Kickin Coal

OK Barry!

Namin names and shakin it up. Read it here: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63E1ZG20100415

A fittin tribute to the dead.

Your pal,

Student Finance

Hey Barry:

Good on y'all for helpin the kids git to college: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2010/04/15/MN941CU6VQ.DTL

Thas helpin our future.

Nuther FDR thang.

Ima lovin it.

Your pal,

Banks - Again

Hey Barry:

Keep workin the bill an git it passed.

Them Reps all mouthy bout bipartisanship, but is all show. They jes wanna make y'all look bad. Don pay em no mind.

For me I'd jes as soon see the banks fail - any of em that is stupid. In other words, no public help at all.

But, Ima takin y'all at your word that they is no real bail out in the fund.

But Barry, please, please make sure that banks wot take deposits and make loans can NOT buy stocks or sell surance. If'n y'all don do that, then we'll be back here in five years, guaranteed.

Your pal,

KYRGYZSTAN

Hey Barry:

We gotta bunch planes and troops there so we gotta be concerned.

The Kyrgyz were sick an tired bein pissed on an they threw out them bastards wot done the deeds. Y'all can read bout the situation before here: http://www.mkeever.com/kyrgyzstan.html

Well the report by Alina Walker is from 2002, but nuthin changed wid the 2005 new bunch.

Thang is, we wuz supportin the bastards in power. So it'd serve us if'n they throws us out.

Wot's the lesson for us anyways?

Our lesson given by Peter Lavelle on RT television - he's an American livin in Moscow an he gots a different view. Y'all needs to watch this. Y'all can see the lesson on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQff64L-p5s

Moral here is simple - our national security rests on the freedom of the folks in the little countries where we goes to fight. No Bill of Rights for the Kyrgyz, no national security for the USA.

Kinda simple when y'all thinks bout it. And Barry, we better be thinkin on it.

Your pal,

Slippery Slope To Whackin

Hey Barry:

Mostly we with y'all, but I gotta question.

Sounds like y'all are gonna whack a US citizen. Y'all can watch Keith Olberman here: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/04/08/olbermann/index.html

Dunno if'n is true, but Barry, we gotta be real carful here. Y'all aint no king. We gotta have process and debate and evidence and all fore we whacks sumbody.

Question is - is it true?

If so, then how did we git here, anyways.

Dis guy probly a bad guy, but we got bad guys all over. But, even they gits a trial and a prison an it takes years before we whacks em.

If'n is true, then y'all gotta do some work on this one, Barry.

Your pal,

STARTin

Hey Barry

Good on ya for the START with the Russians.

Here's what Graham Allison Says:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/08/AR2010040803424.html


Wot I say is GO FDR!!

Your pal

Riverboat Gamblin - 2

Hey Barry:

Sometimes at 5.00 AM is kinda hard to sleep an then the ol mind starts workin. And, aint allus a good thang when that wheezy ol contraption kicks in.

Lotta folks an I needs a job an I knows y'all workin the problem, but aint nuthin happenin. Got a part time job, but that aint' enuf ta keep the house. Wife's lookin but they's even less for her. We can hang on for while but then changes gonna happen.

So's then I thinks bout you: Barry Obama. Holy Cow, how do you sleep atall, anyways.

I been sayin that jobs will happen when y'all let unions do more organizin and strikin an when y'all put some kinda tariff on imports so's we can make some of our own crap.

Well that aint gonna be enuf, Barry. There's nother thang y'all gotta go after. It has to do with them Reps. Da ting is, they is not gonna let y'all do nuthin. That aint gonna change neither cuz they thinking they is winnin. I dunno what planet they is from, but I knows they is gonna kill anything they can and they just may kill the good ol US of A.

So, here's wot y'all gotta do.

Ya gotta come up with some arguments they caint fight, Barry. Use they own ideas gainst them. An, Barry, y'all good at that - watched y'all play mouth ball, oops I mean basket ball. An yo is good.

Problem is y'all gotta get congress to pass any thing y'all wants. An Barry, yo is gamblin that a three trillion deficit will git us what we wants.

An, y'all is also gamblin that the old ways will help you wid dat. The old ways of letting the market do its own thang. Well, we both knows that the 'market' is bunch of rich guys buying the laws they wants from congress.

An Barry, the ol ways jes aint good enuf to make your gamble work out.

Best ding would be that y'all jes do stuff - but that there would kill the USA. We is all bout the laws and the process and we caint have no kings walkin round an choppin no heads.

Besides all that, them econs of yours is gentle souls. They's never want ta force anybody to do nuthin.

So here's the answer Barry - ya gotta create a new group or agency that looks at the important USA businesses and trys to predict wot will happen an wot we should do bout it.

This new bunch caint do nuthin - so keeps the reps happy - but it can look at the whole picture and try to make sure your gamble pays off. An it keeps the reps happy cuz its lookin at bizness and trying ta keep bizness happy.

So Barry, here's da ting: I have actually written a proposal to do just xactly that and it is now in the Economic Development Administration of the Department of Commerce. Thas right Barry, is in your house right now as we speak an is bin there jes bout a year.

Jes in case y'all caint find it, here's a link to the proposal: http://www.mkeever.com/eda.doc

Take a look Barry, caint hurt nuthin an jes might help y'all.

Your pal,

Hits Jes Keep On Comin - Student Aid

Hey Barry,

Y'all is on a ROLL.

Wowsers, Ima lovin it.

Here's how folks in Iowa sees it: http://iowaindependent.com/31441/student-loan-reform-has-big-iowa-implications

Keep em comin, Barry.

Mebbe y'all can turn round our boat an head it in the right direction.


Your pal,

Trash Talkin POTUS

Hey Barry:

Caught y'all on the telly one on one with Clark Kellog.

Loves ta see old guys playin. Used to be one myself - played some baseball and got three national championship rings from Phoenix as an old fart.

So Ima thinkin, Barry, ya got game.

But y'all a little streaky - ya needs a warm up like all us old guys. An Barry the best part of yo game is your talkin. Legs is good, hands is good, but Lordy that talk. Been baseball, I woulda beaned ya.

Is good fun Barry, keep it up.

We with ya.

Your pal,

I Like to Breathe

Hey Barry:

Thank you lots for the new controls on poison from them cars. Mebbe my grandkids won't get asthma.

Here's the story: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2010/04/02/MNT51COML0.DTL

Y'all keepin yo eye on the ball - Ima lovin it.

Your pal,

Taxin CoCola

Hey Barry,

Pass this on to Michelle: Y'all gotta tax CoCola 25% to git them diabetic kids healthy.

Rand Corp says it here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/03/31/national/a210240D27.DTL

They's gonna scream, but holy cow Barry, they's making kids sick for money.

It jes aint right.

Your pal,

FDR Redux

Hey Barry,

Them talking heads are callin y'all another FDR.

Thas cool. Enjoy it.

Means ya gotta ramp up your output - an thas a hard act to follow.

Also means that bi-partisan gotta take a back seat to the good of the country.

But, we with y'all

Keep it up

Your pal,

JOBS - JOBS - JOBS

Hey Barry,

We preciate the health care, don get me wrong.

But we got no jobs yet. In California, thas the main thang they's worried bout. Read it here:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/23/BATR1CJK0O.DTL&tsp=1

I even wrote bout it here: http://www.mkeever.com/apply.html

No jobs, no growth. Plain simple, Barry

We needs y'all here, don let us down.

Your pal,

Bank Regs - On the Cusp

Hey Barry,

Y'all totally nailed it in the youtube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6fNI1u5Qf4&feature=player_embedded

Please, please be sure the bank weasels don screw it up, or we'all is jes done. I means it - we is jes done.

Might as well be slaves. An I aint goin there, I be dead first.

Fuggit the 'bi-partisan' crap, this here is savin the country we talkin.

Git er done Barry.

We gotta have it.

Your pal,

Dodd Steps Up

Hey Barry

Chris Dodd finally steps up and delivers a regulation proposal. Good on im.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/business/14bank.html

I don know how good it is, but I know we gotta get it passed, Barry. Is like y'all said before - is like steering a boat, takes while to make a turn.

Well this here is the start of the turn, along with Barney's laws in the House.

As for perfect, well les all jes get it started. I caint member the last time I was perfect an y'all sure aint walkin on no water up there neither.

Les git it started, then we can change it if needs be.

Your pal,

Iceland to Banks: Go To Hell

Hey Barry:

Think on it.

Them Icelanders said 'Hell No' to covering losses by private bankers.

Read it here: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-07/iceland-rejects-icesave-depositors-bill-in-referendum-update1-.html

How bout us, Barry?

Time to get all up in they face, Barry.

No need to wait - if'n Dodd caint do it, make it happen anyways.

Your pal,

Surance Ghouls - 2

Hey Barry:

Caught a little of y'all on healthcare with the Congress.

Ya did good, be proud on it.

Now y'all can do it again for other tings, so long as the reps play they idiot card; ya know - they card that sez: "Ima holdin my breath til I gets wot I wants." That card.

Les y'all try it on bank regs, for xample. Why not?

But on the sick surance, I's jes worried that all of us out here wants single payer, but that aint on the table, not even a public option.

Seems we stuck with the surance ghouls Barry.

It aint right.

Ya gotta do sumthin.

Your pal

Free Trade Smackdown - Online

Hey Barry:

Y'all gotta get your econs to read this here bout trade:

"Hi Michael.

You may be interested to know I am now in a running online debate about free trade organized by WorldTradeLaw.net and the Cato Institute, a libertarian think-tank in Washington. WorldTradeLaw.net is the moderator; as they explain it:

On the free trade side will be Dan Griswold of the Cato Institute, who has a recent book out called Mad about Trade: Why Main Street America Should Embrace Globalization. On the protectionism side will be Ian Fletcher, whose book Free Trade Doesn't Work: What Should Replace it and Why I reviewed here.

The opening statements of our debate are here:

Me: http://worldtradelaw.typepad.com/ielpblog/2010/02/the-great-trade-debate-ian-fletcher-free-trade-fails-in-both-theory-and-practice.html

Griswold: http://worldtradelaw.typepad.com/ielpblog/2010/02/the-great-trade-debate-daniel-griswold-main-street-america-benefits-from-global-engagement.html

Counter-arguments are scheduled for next Tuesday, March 2, so keep your eyes open!

Best Regards,

Ian Fletcher

Author, Free Trade Doesn’t Work:
What Should Replace it and Why
www.freetradedoesntwork.com

Adjunct Fellow
US Business & Industry Council
San Francisco, CA 94104 USA
www.usbic.net/ianfletcher"

Haitian The Econs - 2

Hey Barry

So, looky here: we'all gots to stop p----n on the po Haitians. Lordy knows they gots nuf trouble alreddy.

Bad enuf we give em jobs they caint make a living at, now we is killin they farmers by sellin our underpriced, subsidized rice.

Read it here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/02/26/international/i122131S77.DTL

If'n we caint help, we oughta jes stay away, cept for the docs and stuff.

Holy cow, y'all makin me shamed to be an American, again.

Your pal,

Medical Money Machine

Hey Barry:

Itsa good ting ta take on the surance ghouls.

But, ya know, they aint all that's out there.

Turns out lotta the docs and pill makers is scammin the system.

Read it from Carol Lochead here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/21/MNC91C0NVJ.DTL

Keep after 'em Barry, y'all is all we got.

Your pal,

Haitian Them Econs

Hey Barry:

So's I read econs a little an Ima expectin heartless crap from them, but not from you Barry. Not from you.

Here's wot I'm talkin: y'all wants US corps to buy from Haiti one percent of all the clothes they buys. Sounds good, but Barry here's da ting:

Jordanie Pinquie Rebeca makes them clothes there now an she earn $3.09 per day, which even the sweatshop owners say is not a living wage.

Thas right, even the boss says that the money aint no good. Now how in the hell are the folks there gonna get better lives if'n a full time job don pay for nuthin?

An ya know the sickness of it is this: good ol USA calls the thang 'Project Hope'.

Positively depressin, Barry.

We needs more from you than we gettin now.

Work on it Barry, y'all is the onliest one who maybe gives a crap.

Your pal

Surance Ghouls

Hey Barry

Hear y'all gonna have a sit down with the sick surance ghouls.

Les tink bout dis. Ima sure y'all been nearby when the druggies are selling they s--t in y'all days in ChiTown.

When I walks by dose guys I sees people sellin death. An here's da ting Barry - they alreddy bought it. They bought the death they sellin.

Now we goes to Wall Street an we looks at the 'Health Insurance Industry' an wot do we see?

We sees guys killin people for money.

Ya know, is one ting to kill sumbuddy for some offense - aint good, but it's one ting.

But, now we gets peoples who makes VERY GOOD MONEY by killin people jes for the cash. Dese are the worst of the worst, jes ghouls outta some nightmare.

They is worse than the alreddy dead people selling death - they is makin cash by letting sick folks die.

An, Barry, dese are the same guys y'all meetin soon.

Barry - we don need no surance ghouls - we needs doctors.

Help us out Barry.

Your pal,

No Sports - Jes Greed

Hey Barry, Happy V-day, be sure to love your girls.

This here aint bout you - itsa vacation.

Ima telly sports fan. I luv to watch kids doin their all to beat nother kid - reminds me bein young.

So, I's watchin the Maverick surfin live on the web an it was great. Kids doing scary stuff, spectators wipin out an humongous waves. Best thing - its all live and the guys who are talking actually know the dudes on the boards. But, they don give no life history on air - dude gets the wave or he wipes out. Thas it. Plus a few commercials. Wonnerful.

Then I sees the Lympics are on late in the day, so I turns on NBC. Here's what I see: eight girl mogul runs of two Canadians and six Mericans, including life stories, leventy seven commercials, Apollo Ohno's Hollywood dance life, a football commentator on how much he loves Ohno's competitive drive plus the commentators' new hanky and - wait for it - AN EFFIN CARTOON.

Holy cow. Where are the dam sports?

So I goes online to look for some sports an what do I see. I can watch yesterday's ceremony, but nuthin else. Nuthin.

To watch any online sports I have to belong to some cable company I never heard of.

It jes sucks.

So, Ima totally givin up the Lympics.

Where the hell is the IOC?

Why caint I watch any sports?

Grumble, grumble, monopoly, grumble, world goin to hell, grumble........

Your pal

Shuttin Down the Royal Supremes

Hey Barry

We gotta get on the wagon to kill the Royal Supremes free pass for corps to buy elections, 'n we gotta move quick.

Here's the WSJ on a current bill:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703382904575059441663715072.html?

OK - it aint perfect, but is better than we got now.

Get it done, then fix it later.

We need this quick Barry

Your pal,

Progressive Conference

Hey Barry

The leftist Dems are meeting in SF this month and DC in June. They's gonna put some heat on ya cuz they's thinkin y'all too soft.

read it here: http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/article.php/2010conferences

Gotta show'em yo tough Barry.

We needs ya to do dat.

Your pal,

US Congress Crooked - Duh

Hey Barry,

Now even the Hahvads' sayin the obvious. Read Larence Lessig on laws for sale here:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/07/IN1I1BS7RV.DTL

Big pix of Lieberman worth a look.

Onliest question for the corps: Y'all want mayo on that?

Holy cow.

Your pal,

Free Trade Doesn't Work

Hey Barry:

Ya gotta get them econs of yours to read this new book - I been sayin that we needs a tariff to get some jobs and make some of our own stuff in the USA.

Well, this here book says it all - I read this book and Ima recommendin it to y'all. Here's the link to the website.

http://freetradedoesntwork.com/

I even wrote a review on Amazon - here tis:

I had the pleasure of reading some of FREE TRADE DOESN'T WORK and discussing it with Ian Fletcher in the pre publication form. One of my interests for years has been the flawed theory of trade used to justify the free trade mantra and some of the real world effects that belief has brought.

Mr. Fletcher has brilliantly addressed both the theoretical flaws and the real world problems brought by Free Trade in the current published form of his new book. This book is a must read for policy makers in every country, especially the USA. Its arguments will set the tone for national economic policy for years to come.

Mr. Fletcher has combined sound economic theory with real world readability - an unusual feat for which he is to be congratulated.

This book has my wholehearted endorsement for any person interested in the subject - especially those who still believe in Free Trade as the best policy.

Mike P. McKeever January 25, 2010


Your pal,

What We Gonna Do?

Hey Barry,

Had Chinese last night with some shirtail relations and the talk was bout, hol on, wait for it....it was bout YOU, an where is we all goin anyways.

Anyways they's all askin me what do I think - or mebbe they didn't xactly ask, but anyways I had some ideas and Ima givin em to y'all free for the readin. Wotta deal.

1. Health Surance - here's what we wants Barry: We want the French system. Ya gets a card with a chip and ya takes the card to the doctor an he runs it through a little scanner jes like a credit card scanner an the scanner shows the doc your history and your condition. No asistants keeping no surance files, no huge files in the back room and no forms. No muss, no fuss an no bother.

Best part is this: ain't no surance CEO's makin no $10 mil per month for doin nuthin.

Y'all is lookin crookeder an crookeder as the surance weasels chip away at what we want. Them surance companies gotta go.

2. Taxes - OK Barry, here's the deal. We is on track to become an effin royalty and that jes aint the American way. Period.

Gotta do away with them princes.

Les take Bill Gates. Now, he's got more money then God an his kids and grankids are gonna be set for life. Top of that, he is gonna take care of all Africa's kids all by his little lonesome.

Holy cow.

That ain't America. Bill Gates is named xactly right - he steals or buys stuff for his company, then he puts up a gate and anytime y'all wants to do something on a computer ya gotta pay Bill a tax to do it. Then after ya pays the tax and go through the gate, the stuff you want don work anyways. Besides that he stole all the ideas from Steve Jobs.

We gotta fix the system that lets him an others get so rich they is beyond any American power. Jes aint right.

So, y'all gotta up the income tax so's it takes 80% of the income beyond a point and y'all gotta install a death tax so's we don get no more princes.

Besides, mebbe those taxes can pay for the stuff we need - like healthcare for Americans as well as Africans.

3. Banks - Well, Barry, jes read below to see where I am on that one. Keep on em.

4. Jobs and deficits: here's the deal - we aint gonna reduce the deficit until folks has real jobs and pays taxes. This here ain't rocket science, Barry. Last year y'all bet that we can grow our jobs and get outta the mess. If'n you lose the bet, we is done.

OK, now's the time to pony up. Here's what ya gotta do:

First - raise our wages so we can buy stuff. Let them unions organize and strike. It's what we need.

Second, put up a tariff on imports. It's time to do that. We gotta get some manufacturing back here from China and other places - we needs them jobs here. Its jes insane when a job posting for a small company gets 400 - thas right: 400 - resumes.

What the hell.

Itsa big job, Barry, keep on it. Don be so nice to the Reps that they kills the right things to do. Everybody knows they is bettin y'all fail. Trouble is this, if'n y'all fail, we fail as the good ol USA.

Go head an call em on it - they is not helpin the USA - they is only helpin themselves.

Aint no secrets there Barry. We is with ya, but some's got more patience than others. Some's real disappointed, Barry.

Your pal,

Davos: Feelin the Love

Hey Barry:

Banks are feelin us, read the WSJ here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704343104575033373335750804.html?mod=rss_Today%27s_Most_Popular

Here's what Sarkozy said: "There is indecent behavior that will no longer be tolerated by public opinion in any country of the world," Mr. Sarkozy told the conference. "That those who create jobs and wealth may earn a lot of money is not shocking. But that those who contribute to destroying jobs and wealth also earn a lot of money is morally indefensible," Mr. Sarkozy said.

Itsa a good first step, but we gotta long way to go.

Keep on em Barry, we needs ya.

Your pal,