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Healthcare Reform Imminent – Important Post – Please Distribute
Contact your Senators now. We are out of time, this healthcare bill is going to pass. Click here, put in your address and it will tell you who to contact for your area. A sample letter for you to cut and… Read More ›
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Healthcare: Polling the Polls
My rule of thumb on polls is that whatever your desired outcome, someone can create a poll to support it. As many have said before me, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” I decided to… Read More ›
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The Psychology of Global Warming Visionaries
Is it a bad thing to want to change how we live so we are less wasteful, more efficient and protect the environment – not for environment’s sake so much as for our own sake, since we have to live… Read More ›
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People Sign Petition to Bankrupt U.S. Economy-I’m Not Kidding
In the following video, Mark Dice asks random people on the street to sign a petition to increase our current inflation rate of about 4% to 100%, and to increase it an additional 100% over the next five years. This… Read More ›
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HOA Condemns A 90 Year Old War Vet
A 90 year old WWII, Korean War and Vietnam war vet who earned The Medal of Honor is not allowed to put a flag pole on his lawn and fly the American flag. Amazing. I wrote a letter to the HOA… Read More ›
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Headlines – The Devil’s Playground For Editors
Above is the headline from today’s MSNBC article on last weeks jobs reports. Here is the lead-in paragraph… WASHINGTON – The tally of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits fell unexpectedly for the fifth straight week, a hopeful sign that… Read More ›
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Spin vs. Fact and GDP Contracts Net -.2%
The Spin (consumer spending increased!) “Though cautious, consumers are holding up despite high personal debt, a tight job market and hard-to-get credit. A government report out Wednesday is expected to show consumer spending rose 0.5 percent in October, compared with… Read More ›
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$12,000,000,000,000
That’s what we owe. Let’s be clear. We consume more than we produce. Our entire country is running off a credit card called China. If China stops lending to us, our debts come due and we are in serious trouble. … Read More ›
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Safe Mortgages Collapsing
After reading this L.A. times article from Saturday, I have to ask myself, why is the government surprised that conforming loans, the “safe bet investment” 30 year fixed rate loans that have been the bread and butter of mortgage loans for generations,… Read More ›
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Why do the rich need a tax credit? Because they aren’t rich, that’s why.
Recent government market meddling, as you may have heard, has included extending the tax credit for first time home buyers. Joint filers (a working couple) who earn up to $225,000 are eligible for the total credit amount. We all heard… Read More ›
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Case-Shiller Exposes A 45% Decline In Housing Ahead
Click to enlarge image The chart above of the Case-Shiller Index shows that home prices were on trend in the 90’s, then the start of the housing bubble around 2008, the bubble itself, and the current correction. The problem the… Read More ›
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Saturday Night Live
I am so impressed. Even Saturday Night Live, a TV show…understands what’s happening to us better than our own government does… SNL Skit on China Visit <– Click here Let the 15 second commercial play so you can watch this… Read More ›
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Where’s my foreclosure notice?
People all over America are reporting that they’ve stopped paying their mortgage…and it’s been months…and they haven’t heard anything from the bank. The banks are letting them live in their homes, mortgage free, for months…years. “Eight months after my last… Read More ›
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The Continuing Collapse of Housing
The economy and the housing market are conjoined twins. What each does affects the other directly, and immediately. The economy is driving down the housing market, which in turn is driving down the economy. Where will the rabbit hole end?… Read More ›
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