I remember learning how magicians use sleight-of-hand to keep the audience focused on one hand, while they use their other hand to perform the trick. This intentional distraction works well in magic and works wonders in politics. The recent Jobs… Read More ›
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Government Calligraphers Protected From Recession
Some of the best comedies are based on characters who have become completely detached from reality. The more detached they are, the funnier it is. Farmers that have never been to the city and don’t know how to use a flush toilet, or a city… Read More ›
Banks Get to Pay for Government Expansion
The healthcare reform bill may be dead but there is still a need to understand why government expansionism is bad for business and for taxpayers. The elephant in the room on the healthcare plan was how the heck was the government going to pay… Read More ›
Uncertainty, The Storm That Never Ends
Nothing makes a recession last longer than market uncertainty. Contrary to what the government would have you believe, the “market” is fairly predictable. There are thousands of leading and lagging indicators that move in certain directions of varying amounts and can… Read More ›
Healthcare Reform: The Dirty Trick
The current healthcare reform bill uses a dirty trick to “lower costs” that many don’t know about… The benefits of the healthcare reform must not begin until after the next presidential election in 2013. The new taxes on American citizens and insurers… Read More ›
Government Claims: “Everyone gets a raise!” if Healthcare Reform Passes
So besides the “sun tan” tax I mentioned in a post here, how is the government going to pay for healthcare reform? From the same people who want to fine you for underinflated tires and ban black cars to save the environment… Read More ›
Triple Whammy: Foreclosures Rise, Retail Sales Fall, Unemployment Claims Rise
CNBC reports, “Foreclosures jumped 14 percent in December 2009 from the previous month, according to a new report from foreclosure listing Web site RealtyTrac.com. The increase came despite foreclosure suspensions during the holiday season from Citigroup, Bank of America and Fannie… Read More ›
Negative Savings Rate Reaches Great Depression Level
“Government deficits have caused the U.S. savings rate to turn negative for the first time since the Great Depression…” ~Bloomberg This is a good example of why government stimulus sounds good on paper, but does little to help the economy…… Read More ›
Four Democrats Flee the Scene, more to come?
Democrats hold a majority vote of 60 members in the Senate. As long as they all vote the same direction, anything they want will pass into law, including health care reform. But now, some Democrats are opting to retire instead… Read More ›
Senators Sellout for Yea Vote on Healthcare Reform
United States Constitution: Article IV-Section II, “…the citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states.” This means the federal government cannot treat some states differently than others. For example,when the… Read More ›
Government Christmas Eve Mischief
In keeping with the government’s tradition of voting on things they don’t want us to hear much about, Congress voted on Christmas Eve (when it would be least likely to get reported in the press) to raise the debt ceiling… Read More ›
Big Government – Your Tan is now Taxable
Welcome to BIG GOVERNMENT everyone. Within the healthcare bill that will pass tomorrow, is a new 10% tax on sun tanning to help finance the new healthcare reform bill. Do not for one second think it will stop there. Anything that… Read More ›
CA Ballot Measure to Raise Income Tax 17.5%
I don’t believe there is any section of the Constitution that says governments should use taxpayer money to buy up shares of corporations so the government can control them. Do you ever remember reading anything like that in school? So why… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›