My US Auto bailout plan

Let's take the number $34bn

Firstly Chapter 11 for GM & Chrysler LLC. States, Feds to jointly work together to decide how the end of these firms will take place.

Secondly Every dollar of this program has to be accountable to a special office of the GAO as part of the deal.

3. Take 10bn and pay the 70% of salaries, 80% of medical expenses for two years;

4. Take 5bn to continue retirement benefits of workers already retired;

5. Take 3bn to retrain the workforce for new manufacturing economy, new careers, re-education for two years of displaced auto workers;

6. Take 5bn to actively develop manufacturing of alternative energy vehicles, mass transit & engine conversion research for existing auto industry inventories;

7. Take the 11bn left over and put it in trust for expansion of this program for successful, viable ventures developed.

US Auto Bailout

'We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us.'

Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Chapter 34

The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas: An Oral Teaching

Holding illusory appearances to be true makes you weary.
Therefore when you meet with disagreeable circumstanes,
See them as illusory—
This is the practice of Bodhisattvas.

[...from The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas: An Oral Teaching by Geshe Sonam Rinchen, translated and edited by Ruth Sonam, pg. 59]

Faith

With the deepest respect I will remember: Moshe, Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg.


Peace be with you,
d

Bullet Proof Soul

I was so in love with you
You rarely see a love that's true
Wasn't that enough for you
Wasn't that enough for you
I would climb a mountain
I wouldn't want to see you fall
Rock climb for you
And give you a reason for it all

You kept on thinking
You were the only one
Too busy thinking
Love is a gun

Hit me like a slow bullet
Like a slow bullet
It took me some time to realise it

You keep on thinking
You were the only one
Too busy thinking
Love is a gun

I know the end before
The story's been told
It's not that complicated
But you're gonna need a bullet proof soul

You keep on thinking
You were the only one
Too busy thinking
Love is a gun

I know the end before
The story's been told
It's not that complicated
But you're gonna need a bullet proof soul

You were trigger happy baby
You never warned me let me free
It's not that complicated
But you're going to need a bullet proof soul
Think you got it but you got all the trouble you need
I came in like a lamb
But I intend to leave like a lion

It hit me like a slow bullet
It hit me like a slow bullet


From the album Love Deluxe,
Songwriters, Adu, Mattewman, Hale

Self-Examination

Not others’ opposition
Nor what they did or failed to do,
But in oneself should be sought
Things done, things left undone.

Dhammapada 4(6): 50

Bodhisattva without a dance partner

Doctrine of the Mind, teaches three things:
(1) To know the mind—so near to us, yet so unknown.
* What power does she have that takes my mind? Takes time from my day to do the things that I prioritize as a priority. With her wonderful smile and fabulous hair. She probably smells nice too...

(2) To shape the mind—so unwieldy and obstinate, yet may turn so pliant.
* Making me think of being that person I promised myself to be. Yes that guy... That guy before this guy.

(3) To free the mind—in bondage all over, yet may win freedom here and now.
* To free the mind, my mind from the excuse that she is the reason that these realizations are happening now.

cc 2008, deayrs

Fearlessly? Recklessly? Selflessly...?

What if you where, you where...
impermeable to pain?
Pain would pass through you like
a breeze through an open window.

Changing the window as much as the
breeze. Changing the breeze as much as the
window.

My question is this.
If you where impermeable to pain.
If love was the only remedy. Compassion its only
vehicle.

How would you love?


cc 2008, deayrs

Boddisatva as a Parent

We are confused by words.
Emotions have some utility in the
comprehension of ourselves.
The insight that those emotions afford
are at best a guess based on experience.

Love is as much a guess
as it is a practice of faith.
And for me, Thursday.

Making my son
smile as he fell slept
restores some of that faith.

Estoy a su deuda.

Official History Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders

BAGHDAD — An unpublished 513-page federal history of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the invasion by Pentagon planners who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country, and then molded into a $100 billion failure by bureaucratic turf wars, spiraling violence and ignorance of the basic elements of Iraqi society and infrastructure

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/world/middleeast/14reconstruct.html?_r=1&hp

By JAMES GLANZ and T. CHRISTIAN MILLER