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Politic USA is recruiting.

If you are really a smartass, you might even be invited to join the mostly white and predominantly male Journ-0-lists.

And.... if you really pander, Obama's advisors may reward you with an invite to the White House.

Though many PUMAs knew what was happening as early as the Democratic Caucus in Iowa ... and many Palin supporters got a clue after John McCain announced Sarah, in Ohio.... the whole truth about the smear campaign against two competent and intelligent women candidates for the White House is yet to be told.

REAL Feminists are all ears!

The Family Farm & Small Business Crisis of 2010: We *Are* Doomed!

Alessandro asked a question at The Daily PUMA. About whether Barack Obama is doing enough to intervene in the foreclosure crisis.

Having looked at the statements from recent, high profile, foreclosure cases in Cincinnati and Austin ... and being somewhat of a Family Science geek, made me wonder how closely these cases mirrored our former farm crises....

I responded to Alessandro thusly:

(The) particular incident (of the bulldozed home) happened a short distance from my own home. My understanding is that the homeowner owned a small business that is going under. The bank wanted to get it's $$$ for the business... so decided to take his home as well. Even though the homeowner claims that he had always made house payments and is not behind.

So... while this is a story about foreclosure, I think we will also find that it is a story about small business ownership. More to come....

As for the engineer that flew a plane into the IRS building.... I just don't know. I don't think insanity like that can be justified no matter what was happening to his home, life savings etc. BUT... again, I suspect the story will be about the failure of his small business through no fault of his own. He said, in his diatribe, that he had paid his retirement savings out TWICE to cover taxes.

This is a Big Business vs. Small Business problem. And I doubt Barack Obama has any handle on that at all. I suspect we will see many more small business failures... and folks will take their own lives or worse over them.

Sad.


And again thusly:

Suicide rates among U.S. farmers are on the rise. (Last line says Construction workers as well.)

Again... I believe we will see it's a small business problem. We are taxing them to death and making it impossible for them to compete.

Alas, the U.S. is not the only place this is happening.

As Krugman has so deftly put it:

"Oh. My. God. We are doomed!"

You see.... when our economy goes south, family farms are often the "canary in a coal mine." Farmer suicides rise such that, in the U.S. we try to provide suicide prevention services to help them. Because we *know* what is coming from former farm crises, like the Dust Bowl and the 1980s farm crisis. (Remember "Farm Aid?") We can't prevent all farmer suicides, of course. But prevention programs in Colorado are apparently doing one hell of a job if you compare suicide rates there with what is happening to India's family farmers.

So... my point is this: We are dealing with far more than folks losing their homes. We are looking at massive loss of livlihood due to globalization. And that's worse.

Many a person could handle the loss of his/ her home, if that is all they were losing. But those same folks are not gonna be able to handle the loss of livlihood that preceded their foreclosures. Suicide rates are on the rise amongst farmers and construction workers. Now we have one, very high profile, case of a private contractor flying his airplane into an IRS building. And another of a small business owner bulldozing his home so the bank could not take it from him.

Plus, we have a President that really can't put the puzzle pieces together. Because he is too inexperienced to get it.

Krugman is right.

We are doomed.

Happy Birthday Daily PUMA!

I hope I am around to see all 12 points in your mission statement accomplished:

1. ...there is unfinished business from 2008 involving Barack Obama and his people CHEATING in the caucus contests.

2.....Barack Obama accepting money that he KNEW was fraudulently donated to him via the use of fake names,

3.....Identifying the democrats that went out of their way to support Barack Obama and diss Hillary Clinton when they just could have easily as waited on the sidelines and let the democratic voters decide at the ballot box,

4.....Exposing the intertwined relationship that Barack Obama has with Wall Street Bankers at the expense of middle, "bitter: america,

5.....Spotlighting lazy, conceited, men in suits who profit from making fun of woman or diminishing them in the media,

6.....Spotlight women who are doing things and women who are being ridiculed and ignored when they should be congratulated for doing the right thing.

7.....Be a conduit that connects PUMA blogs in a fast and efficient manner so that we can get the most information in the fastest possible time so we can keep in touch more easily with more PUMA blogs.

8......Exposing the republican conservative frauds and their blogs who simply hate all things democrat while pretending to be supporters of PUMA

9......Reveal and expose the conservative younger blogs that are nothing more than retreads of their older predecessors and simply hate on Hillary Clinton every chance they get.

10......Hope to be around when the wrongdoers publicly admit they acted unethically in the 2008 democratic race and want to apologize to Hillary Clinton.

11.....Would like to see Barack Obama resign one day with an incredibly eloquent speech that actually allows him to keep his political career going as a changed, humbled man.

12....Hillary Clinton has grown by leaps and bounds as a person and a politician and would make the finest next president of anybody out there from either party.

The Daily PUMA is Right: Michael Moore is a Tool, and No Self-Respecting PUMA Should Ever Again Give Him One Thin Dime.

Don't be a sucker! Don't pay to see Moore's newest film. Not after the backstabbing he gave Hillary Clinton in 2008.

I was once impressed by Moore. Saw all of his films. Read one of his books. Bought copies for my family members. NOT THIS TIME!

Michael Moore is on my black list until, and unless, he issues an apology. For steering my kids into voting for an empty suit who has sold us down the river on Health Care, and so many other issues.

There will be NO Moore DVDs under my Christmas Tree this year. And I won't be linking to him in my blogs either.

Michael Moore is DEAD to me.

SYD