Entry for October 21, 2008

The new Honda Fit is a swell new car. It has four seats and TEN cup holders ! For 15,000 dollars you too can get 35 mpg. Has anyone seen the “Smart Car” yet? It draws more stares, oohhs and ahhhs then the Hummer ever got. 50 mpg but just don’t get hit by a Hummer…..oh but maybe you will survive because you are surrounded by SIX airbags….(and ten cup holders)

Last week, financial giant USB, which is struggling to stay above water and expected to succeed, limited senior executives to $750,000 per year until losses end. New York Times responded with this: “That is still an extraordinary amount of money, but given the costs built into bankers’ lives — mortgages, private school and so on — the money can quickly run out.” Wait, bankers have trouble paying their mortgages on $750,000 per year? Prices are high in Manhattan, but it’s ridiculous for the Times to express concern for executives forced to get by on $750,000 a year. DON’T FORGET, it is now OUR tax dollars that are helping this lifestyle for the bank CEO’s. And where is it written that bankers’ children must attend private schools? Congress refuses to enact a living minimum wage of $10 a hour, but couldn’t wait SAVE the Wall Street salaries !!!!!!!