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11.06.2009 5:15 pm

A reason to hire me

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Re/ David Brooks (Confidence: The fatal conceit, 10/28) view that the bonus blessed CEO’s will go elsewhere if the bonuses for mismanagement don’t continue, I have an idea:. I shall offer my mismangement skills to Corporation XYZ with the admonition…
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11.06.2009 5:13 pm

Getting something is better than getting nothing

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The federal government is planning to impose restrictions on credit card companies and banks limiting the fees they can charge their customers. It’s too little too late. Upon hearing this the credit card companies and banks have started to raise…

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10.30.2009 2:35 pm

Furlough state workers, don’t fire them

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

We are all so caught up in this health care discussion another very important issue is going unnoticed, the loss of our quality State Parks and more jobs in Missouri. When your children’s school is no longer able to book…

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10.29.2009 10:37 am

Seniors are suffering, too

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In regard to Ellen Goodman’s column in the Oct. 23 Post-Dispatch, questioning the reasoning of President Obama’s recent thought about issuing another $250 one time check in lieu of a COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment) to Seniors throughout our country,…

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10.21.2009 2:55 pm

There should be no surprise about the state of our economy

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I don’t know why people are so surprised at what George W. Bush did to the economy. Anyone with a decent memory was unsurprised, as I was. When Ronald “Gubmint isn’t the solution, gubmint is the problem.” Reagan was in…

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10.21.2009 2:52 pm

Using my windfall to buy a stake in the Rams won’t be easy

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
President Obama is poised to shower senior voters with $13 billion (of money we don’t have) in the form of $250 checks next year.  (Next year is an election year but these $250 bribes, er, “stimulus” checks, and the plan…
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10.20.2009 2:50 pm

Let’s talk about how to make the economy better

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I didn’t find your piece on “The Un-recovery” either very helpful in understanding our current economic problems or very balanced in coverage of the crisis.  As credit disappeared due to the unconscionable acts of the mortgage bankers and insurers of…
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10.19.2009 4:53 pm

The new standard for older Americans

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

 

A recent front page article said there will be no Social Security raises. Being older and being stupid are not synonymous with each other, but this reporter and his sources would seem to think so! If you have part D,…

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10.02.2009 5:27 pm

Brighten our future — with jobs

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

 

The Obama Administration keeps telling us that health insurance and environmental emissions are the key crises at the moment.  I must respectfully disagree with them.  I think unemployment is the key issue.  With full employment, most of our nation’s ills…
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09.24.2009 7:07 pm

Krugman is wrong on banking

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Paul Krugman is amazingly long on education and short on knowledge. He advocates the government regulating bankers pay although only God could know where in the Constitution that authority can be found. I can tell you for certain that such…

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