The U.S. As an Investor

Amazing! Under the TARP program, the U.S. paid $254 billion for $176 billion worth of the assets of financial instituions. The government’s increased intervention in the economy is likely to slow down economic growth because history shows that every time the private sector shrinks to make way for the government sector, the economy suffers. The Obama administration will turn the U.S. into a second- or third-rate nation.

When I have visited 3rd world nations one way that women deal with poverty, is to enter the entertainment industry, especially if they are good looking. With staff jobs evaporating and former nine-to-fivers cobbling together incomes through scattered side projects, freelancing as a dominatrix—or “pro-domme,” as industry types prefer to call it—has become a plausible gig option.