“Have yourself a merry little Christmas”!  This year many will replace the exclamation with a bold, and maybe tripled, question mark at the end of this familiar opening strain.  That’s because little may mean VERY LITTLE, for the newly unemployed, those who have given up after months of searching, and other myriad Americans who will have less under the tree.  The pain is spreading like a nasty poison ivy rash throughout the entire economy.  Like most rashes, it will run its course.  The big unanswered question is: How long and how painful will it be?  I’m really stressed on this count, because Bob Stockdale doesn’t even know, and he’s the Deepak Chopra of all things financial. 

Dear Senator Baucus,

At a forum sponsored by the Center for American Progress Action Fund on Friday, March 27, 2009, you referenced American healthcare as a “hodgepodge” and that the reason at least in part, is that:  “There’s entrepreneurship, creativity, there’s ‘go west, young man’—that’s much more a part of our culture than it is in other countries and various groups; doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, (medical) equipment manufacturers—they’re providing care, but they’re also trying to make a buck.”  I’m wondering Senator if I can offer you a free office visit for diagnosis of what seems to be a serious psychiatric diagnosis?  Let me explain.

It’s summer and the show has been sizzling, thanks to you. The All Around Tour continues to delight everyone involved as I’m finally able to put faces with many of you who call, and care….