Coming up in Car Tech

The coming week, from Christmas through New Year's, represents the calm before the storm here at Car Tech. Our offices will be closed, and we won't be posting any new stories until January 5, 2006. On that date, we start two weeks of reporting from the road. Our first stop will be at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, looking at the latest in car audio and navigation systems. From there, we go straight to Detroit for the North American International Auto Show, where we will publish new-model previews, blog entries, and slide shows. We'll resume our regular schedule of technology-focused car and gear reviews during the week of January 16, 2006.

[parisdakar]

These financial spin doctors have far too much confidence in their own predictions.

[inketolstoy]

"Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the economy is growing faster than the Obama administration expected."

In other words, the patient isn't kicking the bucket as fast as the doctors thought. Time for another "stimulus" pill to put it in the hole.

[retiredgustav]

Nobody put us in the hole like Bush. Think about it what kind of an idiot would go into 2 wars and cut taxes at the same time.

[inketolstoy]

The economy is growing so rapidly and people are so "encouraged" many are leaving their houses and their jobs for the unbridled freedom of unemployment and homelessness.

[government_slave]

I know the blame game is by far the most prevalent in all opinons, but it was every politicain and banker that let the average person borrow and spend outside their own limits. No it needs to be fixed and from were im standing, the economy isn't growing or recovering. I think Geithner needs to get his head out of his &^%$#^%# and work with all the rest of the greedy politicians to give back to us hard working americans that pay for their luxuries in life and really come up with some solutions that actually work!!!!!!!!!! I think we may need some of the qualities of Andrew Jackson and get rid of the bank of congress................

[pragmatist1]

I'm hardly going to believe a former exec from Goldman Sachs who also cheated not paying his taxes. More corruption in the ranks of the current administration.

[quapawsix]

Sober up AMERICA you are being taken to the cleaners.

[eightsigma]

The cleaners looks pretty good from where I'm standing.

[eightsigma]

Here in Minionville, I could hardly find a parking spot at the mall this weekend, the restaurants are packed, I'm having the best year at work ever, and my investments have been doing great this year. With the extra cash, I'm putting in new windows which will help a little with job creation and save energy too.

My only worry is the deficit, and balance of trade. I'm disappointed that my taxes aren't going up to reduce the deficit, and it's time to erect trade barriers, our best long-term hope for more jobs.

[Fight4Rights]

You must work for the government, they are having a great year.

[maxboll]

pull **** and **** up both demokrat and rebublicans.

[SocialEvo]

Nothing can be more ludicrous than self-fulfilling economic prophecy. First you announce that everything is great, then people blindly accept it, which then fuels more consumerism, which then inflates the bubble once more. Will the next POP get your attention, or are you content hoping you'll last it out until your die and pass the balloon to the next generation?

Cyclical consumption as a driving indication of economic growth is the most asinine setup we can have, but we're force fed this as though it's a glorious thing, all the while these bubbles become more catastrophic to the middle class. Oh, the wealthy don't give a crap, they're loaded and can survive these pops, but can you?

Ladies and gentlemen, I bring to you the demise of the Monetary System, what was once useful and necessary to govern an archaic world is now old, obsolete, woefully corrupt and inadequate for the 21st in which we live. It cannot adapt to advancing technology which destroys personal purchasing power, but at the same time can provide abundance for all necessities of life to the entire global population.

Methinks a rat is in the house, and its name is Money. Not politics, not government, not any other ill that is simply a symptom of the overarching problem. A quick look at recent history proves this to be so, but can people divorce themselves from the modern dogmatic establishment long enough to see the truth for what it is, or is current socioeconomics the new religion?

The Youtube Channel TZMSocialEvolution has several great videos on this. "Awakening" and "Our Technical Reality" are key starting points.

But can people divorce themselves from the modern dogmatic establishment long enough to see the truth for what it is, or is current socioeconomics the new religion?

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." -- Albert Einstein

[Wondering53]

The minions following Obama will believe anything he says. Blah blah blah