Someone emailed me this link and said I was being summoned... Took me awhile to remember my login and password... I was sure my password was "crack_whore09" then I realized that was for another site.
Anyway, I was excited that my name was mentioned and figured someone here must want some of my vast expertise in hounding, a small drink from the fountain of my hounding knowledge... only to find out it was a post about Politics.

I read through the threads and realized that if "Mas Viagra Por favor Nolte" could throw in his two bits, I could too.
I have no idea what is going to happen, but I can tell you this much. I'm old enough to remember the Jimmy Carter years, and watching on the news every night while people in California were lined up for blocks just to get some fuel in their cars, and my parents had to throw in the towel on the new house they were building because interest rates were at 16 or 17%...
And our neighbor was one of the largest builders in the state, and a multi millionaire when this hit... and he lost everything he owned. When the smoke cleared he was PENNILESS and broke and had to borrow money to live. Thankfully, a local bank believed in him and loaned him money when they had no good reason to...
So this country has seen plenty of hard times in my lifetime, and we seemed to come out of those OK. And my neighbor retired years later a very wealthy man, started over and built another empire. So I'd like to think we'll come out of this OK, I dunno. Things are dicey here at my job and it's pretty bleak, so this recession or whatever you call it is about to get real personal.
But I know what Kevin mean when he talks about the American spirit, because I have some relatives who are very old, but still living... in there 90's... and believe me this ain't the first time they have seen hard times!! They never threw in the towel, so I guess I won't either...
Here is my biggest thing about this thread...
Kevin said "As someone that actually has a degree in economics..." So let me get this straight... Sitting in your apartment for 6 years smoking dope and drinking beer is now called "a degree in economics"...?
Fair enough, but if that's the case I would like everyone to stop calling me HoundDawg, and please refer to me now as Dr. HoundDawg!!
Next time my wife strolls in from work and I'm sitting on the couch with a bottle of Rum in one hand, other hand down my pants and a cloud of smoke from some Alaskan Thunder looming in the room and she says, "What the hell are you doing?"
Guess I'll just answer, "Working on my degree in economics honey. What does it look like?"
