WASTING A GOOD CRISIS: RESULT - $200 OIL
by James Quinn
Date, 2009
Rohm Emanuel’s famous quote regarding the current financial crisis, “Never let a serious crisis go to waste…it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before.” was ignored last summer when oil prices reached $147 a barrel. The Obama administration has taken advantage of the financial [...]
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James Quinn: Wasting A Good Crisis - Result $200 Oil
James Quinn: Cost of a Global Empire
COST OF A GLOBAL EMPIRE
by James Quinn
March 31, 2009
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerers of deaths construction
James Quinn: When America Ruled The World
WHEN AMERICA RULED THE WORLD
by James Quinn
March 24, 2009
I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own
I used to roll the dice
Feel the fear in my enemy’s eyes
Listen as the crowd would sing
“Now the old king is dead! Long [...]
How Tyranny Came To America
How Tyranny Came to America
One of the great goals of education is to initiate the young into the conversation of their ancestors; to enable them to understand the language of that conversation, in all its subtlety, and maybe even, in their maturity, to add to it some wisdom of their own.
The modern American educational system [...]
James Quinn: Escalator of Life - Going Down
ESCALATOR OF LIFE - GOING DOWN
by James Quinn
March 19, 2009
We’re riding on the escalator of life
We’re shopping in the human mall
We’re dancing on the escalator of life
Won’t be happy ’til we have it all
We want it all
James Quinn: Grand Illusion - The Federal Reserve
GRAND ILLUSION – THE FEDERAL RESERVE
by James Quinn
March 11, 2009
So if you think your life is complete confusion
Because your neighbors got it made
Just remember that it’s a Grand illusion
And deep inside we’re all the same.
We’re all the same…
America spells competition, join us in our blind ambition
Get yourself a brand new motor car
Someday soon we’ll stop [...]
James Quinn: Stairway to Retail Heaven
STAIRWAY TO RETAIL HEAVEN
by James Quinn
March 3, 2009
There’s a lady who’s sure
All that glitters is gold
And she’s buying a stairway to heaven
When she gets there she knows
If the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
And she’s buying a stairway to heaven
Led Zeppelin – Stairway to [...]
James Quinn: As General Motors Goes, So Goes The Nation
As General Motors Goes, So Goes the Nation
by James Quinn
February 26, 2009
General Motors was founded in 1908 in Flint, Michigan and grew to be the largest corporation in the world. Its market capitalization reached $50 billion in 2000. In the past week its market capitalization dropped below $1 billion to levels last seen during the [...]
James Quinn: The Burning Platform
THE BURNING PLATFORM
by James Quinn
February 18, 2009
“The US government is on a “burning platform” of unsustainable policies and
practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and
overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon.”
David M. Walker
David Walker served as Comptroller General of the United States from 1998 through 2008. He is now [...]
James Quinn: Boomers- Your Crisis Has Arrived
BOOMERS – YOUR CRISIS HAS ARRIVED
by James Quinn
February 10, 2009
“There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations, much is given. Of other generations, much is expected. This Generation has a rendezvous with destiny.” Franklin Roosevelt – 1936
President Roosevelt was correct. The generation he was speaking to was already dealing with the worst financial crisis in [...]
James Quinn: Turning Japanese - The Audacity of Reality
TURNING JAPANESE - THE AUDACITY OF REALITY
by James Quinn
January 28, 2009
I can’t believe the news today
Oh, I can’t close my eyes and make it go away
How long…
How long must we sing this song?
How long? how long…
U2 – Sunday, Bloody, Sunday
Every day seems worse than the previous day. Five hundred thousand people are getting laid [...]
James Quinn: Ghost Malls Coming To Your Town
GHOST MALLS – COMING TO YOUR TOWN
by James Quinn
January 20, 2009
The illustration of Old West ghost towns is something that every American can relate to. During the great gold rush of the mid 1800’s in California, Nevada, and Wyoming towns sprung up out of nowhere to support the gold mining efforts of those looking to [...]
James Quinn: Orwell’s 2009 Big Brother Is Watching
ORWELL’S 2009 – BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING
by James Quinn
January 16, 2009
war is peace
freedom is slavery
ignorance is strength
“All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. [...]
James Quinn: Unintended Consequences, 20th Century and Beyond
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
20th CENTURY & BEYOND
by James Quinn
January 5, 2009
“The law of unintended consequences is what happens when a simple system tries to regulate a complex system. The political system is simple. It operates with limited information (rational ignorance), short time horizons, low feedback, and poor and misaligned incentives. Society in contrast is a complex, evolving, high-feedback, [...]
James Quinn: What Happened To The American Dream
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE AMERICAN DREAM
by James Quinn
December 24, 2008
“The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many [...]
James Quinn: An American Tragedy
AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
by James Quinn
December 16, 2008
“If y ou tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally [...]
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James Quinn: Has America Jumped The Shark
HAS AMERICA JUMPED THE SHARK?
by James Quinn
December 9, 2008
America has given indications that it has reached its peak and is on a downward slope. The U.S. government has taken measures in the last 11 months that appear to be a desperate attempt to keep our dysfunctional corrupt financial system propped up. The phrase “Jumped The [...]
James Quinn: Turkeys Can’t Fly
TURKEYS CAN’T FLY
by James Quinn
November 24, 2008
” I’d gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today”. J. Wellington Wimpy
If you are old enough to remember the Popeye cartoons, you will remember Wimpy and his promise to pay at a later date for a hamburger today. As Congress listens to the latest pleas for $25 billion from [...]
James Quinn: There’s No Problem, Only Solutions
THERE’S NO PROBLEM, ONLY SOLUTIONS
by James Quinn
November 10, 2008
People asking questions lost in confusion,
Well I tell them there’s no problem,
Only solutions,
Well they shake their heads and they look at me as if I’ve lost my mind,
I tell them there’s no hurry…
I’m just sitting here doing time,
I’m just sitting here watching the wheels go round and [...]
James Quinn: The Shallowest Generation
THE SHALLOWEST GENERATION
by James Quinn
November 3, 2008
The Baby Boom Generation will never be mistaken for the Greatest Generation that survived the Great Depression and defeated evil in a World War that killed 72 million people. I hate to tell you Boomers, but putting a yellow ribbon on the back of your $50,000 SUV is not [...]
