They don't believe in Christmas even though they had it already...

The economy is in the tank, joblessness is officially 10.2 percent but more likely in the range of 18% thanks to "creative accounting" from our transparent government.

So the natural response to deal with this problem is for president hussein to drag major business leaders, academics (?!!!!!???!!!!!!!!!) and others to a job summit that doesn't even have as it's goal the core concept of job creation.

Now let's assess the situation:

1) Healthcare absorption: No time to delay. This is absolutely CRITICAL that it happen now.

2) Afghanistan: Sure... let's take a few months and then throw some troops in, but also we get to tell our enemies when we will be letting them alone to go ahead and do their thing (if only the Dems would do this with the Business world we'd rejoice...).

3) Cash for Clunkers: The U.S. Government bravely bought a bunch of cars and trashed them. Hell, paying the Crips to steal all those cars would have been more of a stimulus because then they could at least strip them down and sell them for parts. But NO, our beloved president hussein insisted that the vehicles just be trashed outright.

4) TARP: The U.S. Gov't. bravely bought a bunch of toxic property assets... or did they? No one really knows. The program is overseen by a Czar, isn't it? Last I heard Czars don't report to anyone but hussein. And now that money is going to get used for other programs, as per Nancy "Dragon Mama" Pelosi.

5) The Economy: Well shucks... they actually SAID they need to solve the Healthcare problem so hussein can start to concentrate on the economy. In other words, the economy doesn't impact upon HIS lifestyle, so why the hell would he care about us? No... the economy is not one of those things that the people don't want, so it's not being rammed down our throats with gleeful abandon.

So the Democrats were given a crap load of money to spend randomly without any long-term benefits, so THEY'VE had their Christmas already...

Meanwhile we are left to sit there and figure out not just "Can I buy my kids a toy for Christmas" but "Can I meet my mortgage payment for Christmas".

Are you better off now than you were two years ago?

Is anyone?

I'd really like to know.

I'm Dr. Calamity and I approve this message.