Can We Expect Anything Else?

I read a news article on the net that criticized Wall Street Executives for their bonus': $18B...let's put that in a numerical figure: $18,000,000,000.  That is a huge amount of money...considering that they got that money from our pockets. 

But really, can we expect anything else?  When the stimulus plan went thru last year, most executives kept their jobs.  In my management class in college my Prof said that when companies were overtaken by other companies the first people to get fired were the executives because they were the ones that drove the company to where it got taken over. 

Can we expect anything else?  Government was the one that ever since 1981 has one at a time taken the regulations off of Wall Street encouraging free market, Clinton took the last of these off.

Can expect anything different from executives from companies going bankrupt to spend millions of dollars on private jets to fly to Washington (three executives, from three companies flying to and from the same city on three different private jets)? 

John Rich from Country Music's band Big and Rich have a new song out saying that the government and Wall Street are killing Detroit...well, they're killing more than Detroit and unless they can drop some huge cash into American's pockets real soon, there won't be anything left to rescue. 

What government needs to do is make sure the banks have money to loan people and that people have money to pay off debts and spend money.  They can give all the money in the world to the Big auto Three and if there aren't people with money able to buy cars, all that money won't make a lick of difference because at that point there will be a whole lot of efficient cars on car lots and no people to sell them. 

Think about that President Obama.

20 Degrees

I started today with a little bit of studying, an hour workout, and from there, I had lunch at YFC, Coffee with my mentor, and topped off with a little more study and class. 

So I drove down the highway though because I needed to get my book from home (thankfully the Mr Brown guy was on time).  I took the 40 minute drive (there and back) with the window's rolled down and the radio cranked up and singing along.  I was so in love with Jesus today...for no reason.

Perfect right?  It was 20F today. 

Thank you to all my friends and family because you have helped me get to where I was/am today.

Fresh Out of Detenton

As YFC's newest Female Volunteer for JJM, I came and went from Detention last night. I want to say, "For the first time" but I hardly feel like it was my first time. I came back to one girl (still there since the last time I went) and others had left and come back in that time or in the past couple of months.

The girls are relatively discouraged inside, which saddens me. One was promised that she'd get visited last night and wasn't. Others got the bad news that they'll be inside this time for a long time. And yet others are wanting to go back home after the leave and that won't be the probable outcome.

It was kind of difficult to be inside last night for those reasons even though I was excited to come back. I'm really looking forward to getting right back into the swing of things.

Thanks for your prayers.

Happy New Year!