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• Kleptocracy a.k.a. The United States Federal Government

  By AWC on July 1, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  I couldn’t resist posting this parody of the popular family board game Monopoly that was forwarded to me by one of my friends…let’s call him Clark Kent (which he is often mistaken for). The definition for Kleptocracy: Alternatively cleptocracy or… Read More ›

• Senator Obama opposed raising debt ceiling in 2006. President Obama supports raising debt ceiling in 2011. Did I just define the word, “Politician?”

  By AWC on June 30, 2011 • ( 0 )

  In Obama’s speech yesterday, he railed against Republicans for blocking efforts to raise the debt ceiling, while using scare tactics to get the American people to accept the idea. But four years ago as Obama the Senator, he opposed raising… Read More ›

• U.S. Post Office Requires $238 Billion Taxpayer Bailout – Postal Worker Labor Union Will Not Permit Saturday Cutback – You Must Pay More Instead

  By AWC on June 30, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  The U.S. Post Service just announced they can no longer afford to pay into their employee pension plans because they are out of money. They are currently running a $238 billion deficit over the next decade, with an $8.5 billion… Read More ›

• Obama Buys High, Sells Low & Makes A Big Deal Out of 1.6 Days Worth of Oil

  By AWC on June 25, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Watching Obama stumble around in the dark trying to convince the American people he knows what he’s doing is like watching a flailing, somersaulting fish lying on the shoreline desperately looking for a puddle. Obama announced that the government will… Read More ›

• Your taxes went up 11.4%, American towns begin printing their own money, rumbles of the next recession mount.

  By AWC on June 19, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Dozens of towns have begun printing their own currency. A dozen states are considering coining their own silver and gold backed currency. You can read more about that by clicking here (since that article, Utah has made significant steps in… Read More ›

• Japanese Earthquake & Tsunami Relief – The Red Cross

  By AWC on June 18, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Just a PSA that it’s never too late to help with the relief effort. If you have not already donated, please click here to make a donation through The Red Cross website.

• MY (housing) prediction was true (unlike the “Rapture” guy)….

  By AWC on June 15, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Back in late 2009, I did a post on what I felt was a bull trap in the housing market and advised buyers to wait until the bull trap had completed its cycle and look for the arrival of the… Read More ›

• Government bans over-the-counter asthma inhaler to save the environment

  By AWC on June 5, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  I hope when this kid grows up, he joins me in voting to get rid of the FDA. The federal government is banning the sale of Primatene Mist (among others), an OTC medicine used by asthma sufferers. Not because the… Read More ›

• The current housing market’s dirty little secret…who are the buyers? You may be surprised to know who they are, and more suprised to know who they ain’t.

  By AWC on June 5, 2011 • ( 2 )

  

  Yes. I know ain’t isn’t a word. Over the years on this blog I’ve listed time and again the many obstacles the housing market faces and how each will lend a hand in providing the downward price correction we so… Read More ›

• Why renting your furniture is a bad idea…even from Hulk Hogan.

  By AWC on June 5, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  I’ve been watching these commercials for years, and like the famous Cash Call commercials with Gary Coleman (who played Arnold Jackson from the sitcom Different Strokes), I wonder just how many people read the fine print on these agreements. I… Read More ›

• June housing update & how every time you fill up at the gas station, you are bailing out the banks and people in foreclosure.

  By AWC on June 4, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  As I’ve said in many posts before, it’s still not a time to buy. Here’s why… Resistant Sellers These sellers are; not aware the market has crashed and continues to decline, are in denial that they owe more than their… Read More ›

• Congress has raised the debt ceiling 74 times in 49 years. In politico-speak, “ceiling” must mean….what exactly?

  By AWC on May 23, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  It is for that reason I am 100% confident that Congress will do the wrong thing and raise the debt ceiling for the 75th time in 50 years. In the end there will be some kind of phony compromise with… Read More ›

• Marginally-Less-Angry Woodchuck Returns from Vacation With A Report on Canadian Toilets & Water Wigglies

  By AWC on May 18, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Hi. I’m back. I managed to finish another book while I was gone, Lies the Government Told You. I highly recommend it. We’ll cover that book in another post, for now I’d like to talk about some observations I made… Read More ›

• Angrywoodchuck goes on vacation…

  By AWC on May 9, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Angrywoodchuck will be taking time to stop and smell the roses (and weeds) until the middle of next week. Got to stop every so often and enjoy everything we’re fighting for. The beatings will continue when I get back.

• A montage of Ron Paul’s views on everything from gay marriage to the economy.

  By AWC on May 9, 2011 • ( 0 )

  If you listen carefully to all of Ron Paul’s positions, unlike other politicians we have grown up with that say, “I believe this…” or “I believe that…” and then we struggle within ourselves which “beliefs” to sacrifice to save others… Read More ›

• A Nation of Takers – Paying People to Avoid Working – Producers On The Decline, Parasites On The Rise

  By AWC on May 7, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  “We face two dangers,” warns Rep. Paul Ryan (D, WI) in his budget proposal, “long-term economic decline as the number of makers diminishes and the number of takers grows and, worse, gradual moral-political decline as dependency and passivity weaken the… Read More ›

• Why your taxes just went up and a Subway turkey sandwich costs 79% more.

  By AWC on May 1, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  I saw this piece in Fortune magazine last week and thought the image captured the dangers of government-driven inflation perfectly. The sandwich pictured below in this month’s Fortune magazine is not getting more expensive because of supply and demand, it… Read More ›

• Why should people support a Buddhist for President?

  By AWC on May 1, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  This is a long post, but it’s been a long time in the making and its a complex discussion. When I was about 26 years old, I was having a political discussion at work with a coworker my age about… Read More ›