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Ya' know; I am not one who plays the odds on Wall Street. I am however; content to live on Main Street. I've been here all of the 66 plus years and throughout my life I've been un-moved one way or the other by the ranting of the "upscale" that hang their big egos on Wall Street. In fact, I'm rather tired of hearing the whining. They've got the bucks; lives of luxury, the cash with which to gamble. Is their addiction any less sick than an addiction to horse racing, black jack tables or the slots? Theirs is just the wealthy's chance-a-thon, whilst I and many who still have self control restrict ourselves to a mere $30 bucks when we visit the nearby Indian owned Hard Rock Casino just east of Tampa. Is there really a difference?

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Whilst these moneyatics cry of no confidence, millions of Americans are loosing their homes, their jobs, their nest eggs; yes, for some even their sanity. So now the airwaves are flooded with news of NYSE and Dow droppings as if they emanate from the hind quarters of an over fed eagle - with wings spread in flight it caws, "who cares about the middle class?"

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As the great Clarke Gable once performed "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." Putting the right side whiner's aside, our new President - barely one month in office is at least doing much more than whining. While others, wallowing in impatience with mouths spewing garbage the likes of which regurgitate from festering abdomens resembling of Rush Limbaugh, are very soon to bow their heads in shame as the markets slowly rally because Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan causes remarkable positives to evidence his judgment which, doth prevail over right-side politics as usual. I only pray that right-side constituents remember how out of touch the conservative theology of past years remains. It is that very theology that has placed us in this position. "Oh Ollie, what a predicament you've gotten us into"

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I haven't taken a survey, but I can't help but to believe that the conservatives who are loosing their homes, out of work and applying for food stamps, forced to mooch off family for room and board, looking to bankruptcy courts for relief, and more aren't asking, "If you; yes you, the republicrats I wasted my votes on; all I hear is criticism of the Obama initiative, the same-ol' same-ol'. I hear nothing from you guys that sounds any different from the policies that put us here. If it put us here over the past eight years then how can the same failed agenda save us? Maybe Obama's plan will bust; maybe not. At least he's doin' something different. It seems his is the only horse running. I rather enthuse the jockey, than try to trip the horse during the first furlong. Right now, horse number "1 Trillion" has left the gate in a flurry; the winds of controversy against its mane; the course, an uphill 30 degree incline to the finish. Personally, I'd rather bet on a clean finish than the worn-out cause of it all.

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God bless the elephant; "they never forget the "face" of failure."