A fly in the oil ointment

Parents who have ever read Mike McClintock’s “A FLY WENT BY” to their children probably didn’t realize it, but they pretty accurately were explaining the great economic downturn that has gripped America these past few years.

For those not in the know, in the young children’s book a fly thinks it is being chased by a frog that is being chased by a cat that thinks its being chased by a dog that thinks, well, you get the idea. Every action triggers a reaction that starts another action.

Just like the economic crisis that began in 2007.

Blago gets 14 years; how about the CEO’s?

Former Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been sentenced to 14 years by a federal judge for corruption that included trying to sell Barack Obama’s Senate seat after he was elected president.

This is good, but there’s one thing that bothers me. How many people were harshly affected by his actions compared to what CEO’s and others in the financial sector did that led to this country’s worst economic crisis since the Great Depression?