Diane Gerdes's (dianegerdes) Blog

Hi! My name is the Bank of America and I am addicted to performance enhancing euphoria that includes huge profits and big pay days.  Across our great country the banks, as well as other financial institutions such as Fannie Mae, started using back in 2003 and could not stop.  Tired of being the b...

President Obama threw the Global Economy a life raft this week by signing the 780 billion dollar Stimulus Program on Tuesday; and on Wednesday introduced the Foreclosure Prevention Program. The Stimulus Package's main agenda is to provide jobs and execute tax cuts to put money in our pockets.  In...

President Obama’s sheriff’s badge was tarnished this week with a double whammy: the poor reception of his significantly altered stimulus bill, and Secretary of Treasury Geithner’s murky presentation of the financial bailout proposal. The rowdy democrats and the suddenly prim republicans were at o...

The media hounds of the Senate and House of Representatives are busy posturing for recognition on the still un-passed stimulus bill. Rather than taking action, they are focusing on seeing their names and faces scrolling across CNN and other news channels. The new bill should be called “101 Blowha...