Stock Meltdown - 7 billion dollar party bill

Bail out - who deserves to be bailed out and why?

• Would you bail out an alcoholic after he drank all his money - and let him go back to the bar straight away on your tab.
• Would you bail out a gambler after he has blown all his money on the roulette wheel, craps and poker - and let him go back to the table with your money.
• Would you pay the drug addicts dealers debts, dress him up in new clothes you needed for your children (health & education) - and let him party on til he crashes again taking you with him down to the bottomless pit.

I believe the money would be better spent on the education and sustenance of any unemployed people as a result of the correction.

Risk has a downside and as they say if you play with fire you may get burned. Now they have set a conflagration that may take Main Street USA with it.

Addictive unrestrained greed led to poor judgment, the overlooking of known problems, accumulation of risk and finally the credit crises and meltdown.

I don't see the CEO's out front and center saying they are sorry and can we help them...maybe they don't really want to be helped?

Hope Springs Eternal - Please don't give up on your dreams and ambitions, John.

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Hope Quotes: Better than stock quotes right now

Antoine de Saint-Exupery:

If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work,
but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Muhammad Ali
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.


Reinhold Niebuhr:

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,
Therefore, we are saved by hope.
Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
Therefore, we are saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.
Therefore, we are saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;
Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.

Elizabeth Gilbert:

To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come,
is quite possibly one of the most powerful "magic skills" that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition.

Rita Mae Brown:

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Thomas Merton:

Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all,
if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value,
the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people.
In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.



When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown

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Chinatown and Soho New York - Good Lunches

Forget Grimaldi's or whatever the restaurant on Spring Street is called - Lombardi's - the best Pizza is right beside there L'asso 192 Mott St - thin crust , great sauce, nice vibe - not overrun with touristicos...its cool tasty and great! They have happy hour with $1 slices! Try em you'll like em.

So say you want a clean diner style - try the Cup & Saucer 89 Canal Street - I like to have a grilled chicken on a soft roll and a pint of milk.

Fancy a great barebecue pork chop - Thai Son - 89 Baxter St - get over rice or a la carte for more chops - even better. A little dopey staff wise but the chops are worth it.

And my favourite lunch special - Excellent Dumpling House - 111 Lafayette St - near a lot of subway stops - all the lunch specials are great and the service is fast - try the won ton soup starter or hot and sour or the drop all great. A lot of folks do the scallion pancakes, fried dumplings with gloops of hot sauce (!!) and soups - its all good. I like the fish and black bean sauce right now but the curry is good, the beef broccoli was a fav of mine for a long time... its a great value place.

So bella - here we go up Mulberry street - try the Saltimbuco a la Romano in Caffe Sorrento - a little pricier and also try La Mela for their lunch special - have a veal/chicken special or meatball and spaghetti - treat yourself to a glass of wine while you are at it ...you have travelled far and its by the glass!

There's a lot of nice places of course but these are just a few of my fav's for lunch...I'll update with the vegetarian option on Broome, the best Thai curry - there a few contenders for that actually..and best burger and fries - that's in Cafe Habana Elizabeth Street has great fries and burger...a little cramped and hot but a cool crowd attends.

Thai Curry update - a nice place on 141 Grand Street at Lafayette called Thai Angels has a great lunch special - can be a little hot but very tasty.