Daily Archives: 07/29/2009

Rick Perry – Walking the Line or Crossing?

(Community Matters) Gov. Rick Perry and the line he walks – I suspect he’d just as hypocritically call another out for these during-the-session fundraising activities which violate the spirit of ethic laws if not the letter.

Hat Tip: Evan Smith

Tanning Beds Deadly

(Community Matters) Especially when under 30 exposed this is really bad news. Think of all the college kids who tanned during the last 20 years.

Curbing Oil Speculation

(Community Matters) It’s about time. Must practice care so as not to obstruct legitimate hedging of costs by industry. However, barely legit oil & gas enterprises owned mostly by financial firms, allowing them to skirt limits should be unveiled and capped.

It’s such a reverse of position for me. However, the blatant disregard for our macro economic health by the US financial industry which continues to place its profit maximization ahead of all else, which continues to leverage public monies borrowed from the Fed and Treasury against us even if they do pay back TARP funds, which ridiculously accounted for 40%+ of corporate profits during much of the last decade despite not contributing meaningful production . . . . regrettably, I’m willing to let the pendulum swing too far the other way for a while. There appears to be no curbing their greed otherwise.