I have followed Lugar's career. He is a limited individual. He acted as though he ought to have been someone's Sec State. He said some very unfotunate things about George Bush just prior to the 2004. I sent him a pretty hot letter to which he himself replied with two a two page thing about what a great Republican he is. His constituent services are known to lousy as compared to other Indiana politicans.

He was a good mayor of Indianapolis because the town fathers helped him enormously as they do all mayors.

I have wondered why he does not follow Arlen Speecter across the aisle.

I have been pretty active in Indiana affairs. Lugar has saved me lots of money because with the likes of him I no longer feel obliged to contribute to Rupublicans except in very rare instances.

This boy Burris is my kind of democrat, sorry to see him go.

Couldn't get back to you sooner. It is a pity that defenders of obama become sarcastic to nasty.

Look go back in you charts to 1933. Gold was 20 dollar/ounce.

Essentially that indicated that the dollar was strong. Then Roosevelt depreciated the value of the dollar by increasing the number of dollars it required to buy an ounce of gold. Right? The dollar depreciateion intentionally engineered by Roosevelt was from 20 dollars/ounce to 35 dollars/ounch that is a 75 % devaluation of the dollars. It didn't do a damned thing. Then he simply outlawed the ownership of gold so that the dollar could go anywhere he wanted it to go. Finally Nixon prohibited the sale of gold for dollars from foreign countires. The price of gold v the Swiss Franc has been much moe stable than the dollar v gold."Correct?

BTW your remark about gold bottoming out, bear market in gold etc? Well that again indicdates a strong dollar. More gold for fewer dollars ? There is some inverse relationship between gold and the dollar, just as there is a more clear cut one between the price of a bond and it's yield.

Everyonoe has had their hand in this. Yes the dollar depreciated more under the Bush administration. We had a totally out of control congress both Repub and Dem and he signed the rediculous spending bills, eg transportation and Ag subsidies.

my concern is that the Chinese are slowing down their purchase of our treasuries and they are getting rid of their dollars by buying up all the nateural resources that they can as fast as they can. They obviously don't believe that the dollar will get stronger. They must believe that we will cheat them by simply cheapening the dollar so that we can pay them their bond interest with cheaper dollars. That's not good.

What with the hugh spending plans of Obama and his financial gang, we ought to worry. If no one buys our bonds we will have to print money to buy them ourselves and can you say Weimer Republic?

Going back to fdarmj subsidies. There are huge subsidies going to Sutton Place addresses in New York. I once worked up there and I never did see a bean field-- have you?

Well no one knows except Obama, Micehlle, the duel passport chief of staff( Israeli/American) Emanuel and some in Chicago.

However it wasn't Marx but Lenin who said that to destroy the capitalist system simply debauch the currency. For those who went to college debauch means ruin. That idea ought to tighten your knickers a bit. Well look at the dollar v the swiss Franc. The Swiss Franc was 4 for a buck, it is now worth 92 cents. Look at gold, it was around 400/ounce months ago now it is close to one thousand dollars/ ounce. Look at the hugh debt being piled up. Look at the cost of a gallon of milk, look at the cost of a gallon of gas.Even if Obama confiscated all of the wealth of those hated rich guys who earn over 250K/year he'll never pay off the debt. But the middle class because there are so many in the middle class that it has the bulk of the money of the country. Hey kiddies, he's going to take it---"We've( You) got to sacrifice"

It is getting to be more and moe fun. Save your marbles kiddies.

I know it is Bush's fault.

This admirable woman seems to be williing to take the loser back in for the sake of those kids and because of the sacrement of marriage.

A damned noble act. Three cheers for the poor woman. She ought and go back to investment banking at which she excelled in one of the most prestegious invesntment banks. And let him run for dog catcher.

Yes you did and all I see is nice middle class foks getting thrown out of work. The guys on Wall Street who overwhelmingly donated to Obama are still well employed and there are various ways of their avoiding the caps on their salaries. So why is that? How many of you liberals have got a nice pay raise recently, my people did! Any of you in mortrgage trouble? see Barney Frank! Things are lousy kiddles.

You know that there or more democrat millionaire senators and congrewsssmen and women than republican millionaire senators and congressmen and women. Why is that?

The patron sait of the liberal cduses Soros is bragging that he did well during this past year when so many people who followed his chioce of Obabma did so poorly. One wold look at that as poor taste and maybe rubboing onto those who followed his advicec and voted for Obama and my boy JOE BIDENm a known high IQ intellectual.

This Obama administration is fun. Doncha love it though?