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BENNY’s NEW PREDICTIONS
POSTED: Sunday 8/29/2009 @ 11:55pm MST-Arizona

Greetings from Sedona, It’s me, Trader Puss! I hope you made some extra “scratch” with my picks from last week…and donated some of your profits to your local animal shelter?

Hey Benny Fans, go to the Perfect Pet Feeder link below and check out who’s on their home page in a featured story…that’s right, Moi!  Week #22 of my diet and I’m continuing on my quest to lose those extra pounds I put on over the winter!  I lost over 6 pounds already!  And I have a lot of my old kitten energy back! Let’s hear some kudos for the kat!  My latest progress picture will be up next week. . . so check it out!

Benny the Cat reads the Cliff Notes version of how we got into this mess. . . “Politicians want votes.  Use Fannie and Freddie to give loans to people who can’t afford them and get kickbacks and loan packages for themselves (Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, etc.).  Banks then take those loans and leverage them 30:1 on the world market making the assumption that growth will never stop.  Growth stops.  Loans default.  Banks and insurance companies caught with their pants down.  Politicians take more bribes, kickbacks, and lobbying money to put generations of Americans into indentured servitude.  Give trillions to banks for free to lend out at 5% – 25% and ask the Chinese to buy treasuries.  Unemployment up, taxes up, market up on Hal 9000 high frequency trading to bring more cash into the coffers to pay more bribes and millions in bonuses and salary to bankers.  Current situation:  market ginned up on false hope, day traders pumping and dumping, Hal 9000 trading, “stimulus” funny money, commercial real estate collapsing, ARM and Alt-A resets approaching along with September/October selloff.”  (thanks to whoever sent me this!)

* Benny makes a funny department… How is it that we were able to put a man on the moon long before someone figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?

* Swine Flu News Flash . . . The CDC is spending $16 million on a program to convince people it’s a good idea to get a swine flu shot!  Apparently, they’re paying people $50 to come to meetings to be sold on the idea you need a flu shot.  If it’s such a good idea to get a flu shot, don’t you think people would just go get one and not have to be sold?  Q. What was the last disease you got a shot for that they cured? (tick, tock, tick, tock….OK, time’s up!)  A.  It was Polio in the 1950′s.  Fact: the last time there was a swine flu “epidemic” more people died from the shots than the flu!  If it’s such a good idea, let’s see all of Congress on C-Span lined up getting theirs along with the Obama children.

* America’s newest export…health care!  Forget about health care reform.  When and if we get a so-called health care reform bill passed, it will be filled with pork projects, favors for insurance companies, medical lobbyists, medical associations, hospital groups, big-pharma, and specialist doctor groups across America.  It will be hailed as the greatest step forward in American health care history ever.  And who will pay for all of this?  The American taxpayer of course.  The same people paying for the bank bailouts (Cash for Banksters), the auto industry (Cash for Clunkers), and whatever new “Cash for” programs are coming next.  Here’s the irony of health care reform.  More people are leaving the country to get quality health care they can afford.  They are going to Mexico, South America, Central America, India, Europe, Thailand and Singapore to get quality medical care they can’t afford to get here.  And what are they going for?  Cosmetic surgery, heart and cardio-vascular procedures, dental work, hip replacements, lasik surgery, and more.  The medical travel industry is booming.  In 5 years, more than 2,000,000 people a year will spend $100 billion on foreign medical procedures.  American medical insurance companies will see the opportunity and sell policies to cover it and do it from a foreign subsidiary.  These foreign facilities will be as nice as American ones; staffed with a competent staff of doctors and specialists, many of them Americans.  More and more American doctors will relocate overseas to make more money and to avoid litigation and the mess the American medical system will become with “reform.”  Buying your drugs overseas was just the beginning.  Some of the best and brightest medical graduates will never practice in the U.S..  First we exported our manufacturing jobs and then our technology jobs, then our service jobs and call centers.  Now we will be exporting our medical industry.  What will we have left?  Oh yeah, all 50 states will approve medical marijuana.  We will become a nation of pot growers in the name of medicine.

• Read this way-cool Blog that a friend of mine wrote all about executives out of work.  It’s called Crossroads: new Job or a new Life?
• How to play my picks. . . Watch for my picks to move the direction I said.  When they start going that way, get ready to take a profit when you have made 1.5% – 3.5% on your investment.  So, don’t get greedy.  When the stock price moves in the direction you want it to, exit your position when you have made a profit.  Especially if it looks like it may turn around.  That’s it.  If the stock returns a favorable profit Monday, then exit the position.  Could you have made more?  Maybe.  Or you could have lost your gain in a reversal.  Compare your small profits week after week to putting your money in your local bank that got billions in bailout money.  Or how about that CD they keep trying to sell you?  Let “Think small and take them all” be your money mantra.  And don’t forget to donate some of those profits to your local animal shelter.  You’ll be glad you did.
• Here’s my long picks for this week… INTC (Intel), BAC (Rank of America), AIG (short for ‘ain’t it grand?), C (Citigroup), DELL (as in ‘farmer in the…’)
• And here’s my “dogs” for the week (notice they call bad performing stocks dogs!) . . . AAPL (Apple), JPM (JPMorgan Chase), TIF (Tiffany & Co.), SLV (the Silver ETF), DD (Dupont), MCD (McDonald’s), and QQQQ.
• Here’s a head’s up, Benny Fans!  I read in the CR News Reports© (the source for my wisdom) where if you sign up for a subscription you get a free bonus!  I love free almost as much as I love Yellowfin Tuna Florentine.  Check it out and maybe you’ll be the “Smartest Cat In The Room!”
• Did you ever realize that the news is never new?  It’s a history lesson by the time you receive it.  Get the News Before It Happens…..Click on this link . . . www.CRNewsReports.com . . . and sign up for the FREE 14-Day Free Trial.  Do you want to be rich and famous like me?  Your Life, predicted ahead of time!  Finances, Career, Relationships, World Events and more! Why wake up to the news when you can get the news that wakes up the World?
• When all the stores at the mall close up and commercial real estate developers are insolvent, what will we do with that space?  Find out at this blog entitled “Ghost Malls.”  You don’t want to miss this brilliant commentary.

Get the economy moving again…invest some of your money in something that will give you a long-term return – a Benny Mug!  Prove your Benny fandom and start your day with a giggle!  . . . Meow for Now! . . . Benny.

Tags: Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, died from the shots, Fannie and Freddie, new job, new life, Swine Flu News Flash, Unemployment up