Tales of You're Local Friendly Neighborhood Genius

I grew up in New Jersey, went to school here, and felt really insignificant. I grew up in a house full of geniuses. Who may be opinionated and rude. And I found out that I was a genius when I was about to graduate from college. If I had known, I might have studied economics instead of communications as a major. But at least I can read people pretty good.

Anyway, I was talking to my father who can go off on tangents. But he's a really good guy. We were discusing economic policies in 2002. He said he talked to an economist who said the three main wealth builders were mining, farming and manufacturing. All things Americans are outsourcing. Figures. Why else did Carnegie get crazy rich.

So I surmised that tax incentives would help spur economic growth for companies who complied with OSHA and environmental controls in America. Because God knows they just spew waste into the ocean in other countries. And the child labor and enslavement to boot.
So when I was introduced to politicians like Tome Kean Jr. And the like, I discussed this economic policy idea with them. At the time, there was a minor recession and they were quite receptive to it. Now I don't know if they were just Bsing me or what, but I later emailed a few local senators and the President saying these people all agreed about the tax incentives for businesses who complied with OSHA and environmental conrols. And all of a sudden, in 2003 there were tax incentives across the board. Now that wasn't quite what I was pushing for and I certainly don't know if I was the cause of it. But we saw unprecedented growth in the last couple of years.

So much that people were unprepared for the bubble in the Real Estate market, high energy costs and the weak dollar. Well is it any wonder. In my economics class I remember fiddling around with some ideas like low cost of goods and high productivity causes exponential growth. But thanks to the weak dollar, gas costs so much, its pushing prices up across the board. We need a strong dollar. More low cost energy. And people motivated to make goods and services.
I wanted to invest in energy before the run on it. But my stock broker told me not to waste my time. Then energy stocks went through the roof. So whose wasting my time? I was in real estate at the beginning of the frenzy in 2003 and it scared me how unaffordable houses were for lovely couples and others wanted investment properties. It just didn't make sense. So I quit with my head hurting.

I just didn't feel good with the lack of affordability and people looking for "investments." I really cared about my clients. So what big trends do I see? Well I have good authority that movies are going down hill because of too little time for good scripts. The economy needs a strong dollar. My grandmother always said in bad times, companies like Avon always do good. I see Walmart doing good again. Economic cars are big.
I had a dream Obama would win but that scares me. He's too liberal. Taxing and spending isn't the way out of an economic crisis. And I think we need a strong presence in Iraq. Too many people want to ignore them again and that's what led to 911 in the first place. We just ignored minor plane hijacking and it enraged them that we didn't take them seriously. And now we have a Jihad to deal with. And the same people who want to ignore them are the very same liberals offending the extreme muslims with their pornographic commercials and brainwashing everyone with promiscuity.