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• Feds Admit Their Stimulus Numbers Are All Wrong – And People Want Them To Run Healthcare?

  By AWC on November 21, 2009 • ( 0 )

  “It may be a fact that that’s what’s on my Web site, but that may not be the correct number,” Earl Devaney, a White House official, testified this week. When pressed as to why there was so much inaccurate and… Read More ›

• California – Now $21 Billion Dollars in the Hole

  By AWC on November 20, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Keeping in theme with yesterday’s post, this is just a short and quick update on what is being reported today about our California budget. The legislators in California who have consistently based future budget revenue projections on “best case” scenarios… Read More ›

• In CA, Your Paycheck Should Feel A Bit Lighter

  By AWC on November 19, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  If you’ve looked at your paycheck recently you’ll notice that it’s 10% less than it was last month.  And the California legislature is hoping you won’t notice.  How can you get it back?  Look at the bottom of this post!… Read More ›

• Home Starts Drop 10.6% and Shock the Unconscious

  By AWC on November 18, 2009 • ( 0 )

  In a recent L.A. Times article, “SHOCK” at the drop in home starts leads the story.  Yawn.  Bores me. I am not sure why anyone is shocked, and anyone shocked by a drop in home starts isn’t paying attention.  I… Read More ›

• Open Spaces Keep You Out Of A House

  By AWC on November 15, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Open Space laws come in many shapes and sizes.  They are sold by local governments to their citizens as the preservation of land for some purpose.  Sometimes it’s to preserve the natural beauty of where they live or to protect… Read More ›

• Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici

  By AWC on November 12, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s a couple weeks overdue but I did attend a local costume party for Halloween and so I had to choose my character.  Keeping in theme with my current crusade I decided to be V, from the movie V for… Read More ›

• It’s a Lose-Lose-Lose Thing

  By AWC on November 10, 2009 • ( 1 )

  

  So I get this letter in my mailbox yesterday from one of my credit card companies, Merrick Bank.  It’s one of several similar letters I’ve received recently.  The letter goes on to inform me that, “as a result of the… Read More ›

• Deed For Lease:The Deadbeats Get To Rent Their Homes Now

  By AWC on November 6, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  You guys are the people on the bottom of the picture…the ones bearing the burden of this entire government mess. Unbelievable what happened today. I want everyone out there to know…if you did the right thing…if you did the responsible… Read More ›

• Silence is the Enemy

  By AWC on November 6, 2009 • ( 0 )

  “Silence is the enemy, Against your urgency So rally up the demons of your soul!” Silence is the enemy. The government continues to destroy the dollar, reward irresponsibility, protect The Fed and its banker leadership from transparency to the public,… Read More ›

• 200,000 Unemployed Swarm Streets of America!

  By AWC on November 4, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Tragedy strikes America! Since September of this year, 200,000 people have stopped receiving unemployment payments as their benefits expired.  For over two months now, a quarter million people have been without any government (tax payer) assisted income.  The media continues to… Read More ›

• Want to know where the TARP money went? Then save bills HR1207 and S604!

  By AWC on November 3, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Representative Ron Paul had introduced a bill which will permit the American people to audit the Federal Reserve.  The Fed is an arm of the government (yeah, I said it) that controls monetary policy. In other words, if you want… Read More ›

• 3.5% GDP Growth? Try only 0.5%

  By AWC on November 3, 2009 • ( 1 )

  

  Q3 GDP up 3.5% over prior quarter is being pitched as the economic turn of the tides.  The recovery is here, break out the champagne. The problem is, the mainstream media never actually looks at the numbers.  They just get… Read More ›

• Unemployment Insurance: Vacation Extended

  By AWC on November 2, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  It hasn’t been voted on and approved yet, but it’s in the pipeline. The Proposals There are a couple of proposals bouncing around in Washington.  One is to provide 13 additional weeks of benefits to people in states with unemployment… Read More ›

• Our Sub-Prime Government

  By AWC on November 1, 2009 • ( 0 )

  The only thing missing from this cartoon is you, the taxpayer, driving the truck. Tax credits for home purchases are just re-distributions of wealth taken from all of us and given to first-time home buyers.  Unfortunately for the rest of… Read More ›

• FHA Buyers: 31% Fall off a Cliff

  By AWC on October 31, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Americans are out of money.  They just don’t have the cash they need to meet the down payment requirements of the major lenders.  So what’s a politician to do? That’s easy.  Just decide that the banks are being way too… Read More ›

• Gold – A Quick Lesson

  By AWC on October 29, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  I am in no way pretending to know much about buying gold, but I will share with you what I have learned so far.  At least you won’t have to start off from scratch in your own research. First off,… Read More ›

• Vacation Time – What You Should Know

  By AWC on October 26, 2009 • ( 7 )

  

  In prior posts I discussed the abuse of unemployment insurance and my belief that it should be privatized.  Today I am discussing employers and their treatment of vacation time. In California, companies are not required to provide vacation time, but… Read More ›

• How Our Government is Destroying the Dollar

  By AWC on October 25, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Please click on the image to see it full size. Our government has in effect been operating the ponzi (pyramid) scheme I outline above.  The end result will be the destruction of the U.S. dollar and a serious drop in… Read More ›