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I read this article on MSNBC and probably shouldn't have posted it here because its content will be objectionable to some. For the record, I have no plans on ever seeing the movie, but the article is an interesting read.

What Penn says

March is over. Thats good I guess, since its like my 10th favorite month. Only thing good about March is that McDonalds has shamrock shakes. I had a big one this year but even though it was excellent it just didn't carry the same splendor it had in the past. Oh well.

We are about 5-6 weeks out from becoming a family of three. We are pretty excited and finished our birthing classes last week. Our showers are over and we have a lot of thankyous to write.

On that note lets get to some politics. I remember when Obama won the election he gave a speech that made me feel like maybe he would do a good job as president. Now that he's been in office for a while I am becoming more and more certain that he has no clue what he is doing. Obama fans tell me that whatever he does, he will be better than Bush. If there is one thing I have learned in life, its that things can always get worse. I remind them that Coolidge was a bad president, but no one remembers him because of how bad Hoover was. Maybe Obama is Bush's Hoover...? To which the Obama fans generally have no response becuase their knowledge of our nation starts with the austin powers and forrest gump versions of the 60's and ends with Carson Daly.

Regardless, Obama and Geitner seem convinced in running a social experiment in America, and we have 3.5 more years to endure.

I saw a clever article this morning that sums up how government bailouts don't help anyone.

Everytime you hear anyone say "too big to fail" they are really just saying "I think short term and want to pass my problems to the next guy". How do you think companies get too big to fail? They get too big, fail, and then we prop them up so they can get even bigger, in perpetuity. I think to myself what a shame that no one can drive a car anymore since Studebaker went out of business, or how there aren't any airlines since Pan-Am went out of business. Obama has never actually done anything, and without failure it is hard to develop much character, or an understanding of what it means to remove the risk of failure from a capitalistic society. Why does his team think that the best thing to do for a country with debt problems is to borrow your way out of it?

Jubak on how the US has China over a barrel.

CEO's stealing from your 401ks?

Detroit's retirement policies need an update. Retirement at 48 made sense when everyone died in their 60's

Feeling like a chump?

If you are one of the successful people that thought Obama was going to be a president that would help you prosper, you are mistaken. I guess the right thing to do is make no money and not try to get ahead, and then maybe Obama will help you stay in that mansion you bought to flip that you couldn't afford without the ridiculous lending policies of the last decade (promoted by Fannie mae and policies begun in 1999 by clinton to get people who couldn't afford houses into them)