Archive for the 'Government mismanagement' Category

Student Loan recipient is a dummy

So, here we have someone who ostensibly was able to get student loans to STUDY. And they can’t even figure out how to find out, with a few Google searches, what to do?
I also find it completely unbelievable that any collection agency would make an actual threat like that. Most of them just don’t care…they [...]

Chrysler Dealers whine and whine

I have been laid off before. I didn’t go crying to my mamma afterwards. I accepted it as a fact of life, and moved on.
But I am very annoyed by the constant whining of the car dealers who are losing their precious franchises. I looked at the list for Los Angeles, and it is mostly [...]

How does a Bangladeshi man end up as a street vendor in Mexico City?

They say reality is stranger than movies.
Globalization has gone wrong, very wrong if a Bangladeshi man has to travel 6000 miles to sells tacos on the streets of Mexico City.
Add to that the fact that this man is sure to be a Muslim-and therefore eats no pork. And he got swine flu?
Or perhaps it is [...]

Texas the new Mississippi?

A few days ago the governor of Texas made some ham-headed statement about seceding from the USA. Most people asked him to not let the door hit him in the posterior on the way out. Most of the world wants to come to America, STILL, and he wants to leave. Who does he think will [...]

More government incompetence

I am convinced that the government is incompetent. Yes, I know, some parts of the government work well, and the US is pretty well governed as a whole, when compared with the rest of the world (except for Switzerland and Singapore).
But it is little nitwit things like this that drive me up a wall.
Los Angeles [...]