Recession Survival Tips

The government has sunk (understatement alert) a lot of money thus far trying to move the country out of this recession.  As of this writing, their attempts have proven futile.  “Why”, you may wonder, “have we spent all of this money and it has not helped?”  Comparing our economy to a human body... 

There’s an old saying… or maybe it’s a scientific fact.  Either way, “they” say that if there was a nuclear war the animal most fit to survive would be the cockroach.  Well… I guess I’m the cockroach of “the Great Recession.”  I’ve been scavenging for so long I never even bothered to look up and see... 

Now that a weak, and underfunded stimulus plan has been voted on by the Senate and is on its way to conference, let us turn our attention to something a bit more important: the looming collapse of our financial sector.  In the midst of the political squabbling over the stimulus plan, we missed the fact that the $750 billion... 

While waiting for my order to be confirmed (at the drive-thru of one of my favorite fast-food joints), I guiltily calculated the damage.  I was cheating on my financial diet, but by the time I carried the one, I reasoned that I had done fairly well for the month.   Hence, celebratory buttermilk biscuits were ok…dare I... 

Here I go again.  I feel the need to explain why, besides the damage they have wrought to the stimulus plan, the Republican push for tax cuts is an ineffectual and misguided economic policy.  Besides a few economists that are friendly with the highly partisan Heritage Foundation, most agree that tax cuts are not an effective... 

For those of you familiar with Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon you might remember that Guitar was actually the Sunday Man. Well we already got a Sunday man so this is what was left.  But that’s what being a broke writer is all about I guess.  Scraping up what you can get.  So I know you’re thinking two things right...