As Republicans fought to protect taxpayers from $350 billion in additional Wall Street bailouts, Democrats assured the American people President Obama would control how taxpayers’ dollars would be spent.
Kolan McConiughey of Michigan was born on Christmas day, has bowled five perfect games and averages 266. He has won six Special Olympics bowling medals and could probably handle the economy better that Obama.
OK, Mr. President. You think your pitiful bowling skills are something you’d see at the Special Olympics?
An Ann Arbor man has a challenge for you.
“Bring it on, Obama!” says Kolan McConiughey, who is proud of the six Special Olympics bowling medals he’s won as well as the fact that he’s bowled five perfect games. “I challenge him! I’ll show him how to do it.”
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Is this the end of America?
Stay strong and remember this quote from a great man who symbolized all that is great with America:
“Be courageous! … I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has come out stronger and more prosperous. Be as brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward.” ~ Thomas Edison
Helicopter Ben Bernanke’s Federal Reserve is dropping trillions of fresh paper dollars on the world economy, the President of the United States is cracking jokes on late night comedy shows, his energy minister is threatening a trade war over carbon emissions, his treasury secretary is dithering over a banking reform program amid rising concerns over his competence and a monumentally dysfunctional U.S. Congress is launching another public jihad against corporations and bankers.
As an aghast world — from China to Chicago and Chihuahua — watches, the circus-like U.S. political system seems to be declining into near chaos. Through it all, stock and financial markets are paralyzed. The more the policy regime does, the worse the outlook gets. The multi-ringed spectacle raises a disturbing question in many minds: Is this the end of America?