Tell Me More Poetry Entry #2
The Uninsured They call me an unfeathered bear As if a bear was ever meant To have feathers Copyright © C. P. Klapper Written on March 27, 2012 Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Tell Me More Poetry Entry #1
Health Insurance The Medical Pyramid Must have new insureds Paying into the system To keep it going Charles Ponzi would be proud Copyright © C. P. Klapper Written March 26, 2012 Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
I care about MORE than Unemployment
I care about more than Unemployment There's more than unemployment that hurts our hearts today And even in our working life There's more that brings dismay There's less for our enjoyment with parts of our past pay While warding off collector strife There's less to keep at bay The many dogs around... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Barack Who?
We recall that thirty-six years ago it was "Jimmy Who?" A year or so after, we learned who Jimmy Carter was, a good man but a bad President. With images of stagflation, his diagnosis of "economic malaise" rather than "Regulation Q", adding hostage fuel to the fire in Iran and then a botched attempt... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Good News Travels Slow
Good News Travels Slow Good news travels slow for me Demanding news is prompt And so accounts are tightly kept With tension and with stress I don't mind -- so they needn't ask -- If my paycheck comes next week -- And due to volume higher than they thought -- Good news untimely process However, I... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
It's Jimmy Carter All Over Again
Well, maybe not exactly, but when Iran holds the key, with a Supreme Leader named the Ayatollah Kh-meini... When there is something the President desperately wants to happen over there and spends his psychic energy in worrying about it... When the domestic worries center around an economy the... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
About Ms. Fluke's price quote for contraceptive drugs
Go back and read the first chapter of "In a Few Hands: Monopoly Power in America" where the late Senator Estes Kefauver discussed some of the ways the pharmaceutical companies were jacking up the prices of drugs. The remedy in the Kefauver-Harris bill was to encourage generic filling of drugs no... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, March 5, 2012
Response to a Moronic Article Allegedly Proving Something
The reason that the Democrat's "millionaire's tax" didn't lead to a mass exodus of millionaires was because IT DIDN'T TAX MILLIONAIRES, STUPID!!! Sorry for that outburst, but I have had enough of the economic inanity of the Democratic Party. Let me break it down for you: 1. Income taxes tax incomes.... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Another random post
Though I have several poems which I have not posted here, they are in journals back home and I have a moment here at the client's office to clear my head and fill you in about my comings and goings. First, I am revising my book to incorporate some of the thoughts which I put into my Wolfson Prize... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
A different kind of Presidential poll
A change of pace for the nonce: Who would you vote for in the general election if it were held today and all of the below options were available: 1. Barack Obama as Democratic Party nominee? (party loyalty since no challenger) 2. Barack Obama as a nominee of another party, independent or write-in?... Sign in to see full entry.