Two days ago, so quietly that you may not have heard about it, our criminal representatives in Congress, with Obama’s blessing, raised the debt limit again, to $16.4 Trillion dollars. Remember last year when the government almost shutdown because of… Read More ›
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Democrats & Obama block efforts to reduce our deficit from $1.5 Trillion to $1.44 Trillion. Who cares!? How about $0 Trillion in debt!?
I try really hard to keep this blog “G” rated everyday, but some days are harder than others. Our deficit is $1.5 Trillion dollars for the year. Our national debt is $14 Trillion. Notice there is a difference between the… Read More ›
CA Union Employee Pension Costs Up 2,000%
Let me start with some shocking statistics from the Wall Street Journal… “Approximately 85% of the state’s 235,000 employees (not including higher education employees) are unionized. As the governor noted during his $83 billion budget roll-out, over the past decade… Read More ›
Tea Party As A Third Party?
My faith in the American people has somewhat recovered recently in the light of their reaction to the out-of-control spending in Washington and the Healthcare Reform Bill which culminated in the peaceful revolution that occurred in Massachusetts. Still, it was… Read More ›
GM and Chrysler Employees – Only 0.1% of the Employed
UPDATE 04/24/10: For perspective, Fortune magazine (April 12, 2010) reports that 870,000 people will be hired this year for the census which could reduce the unemployment rate by 0.5%. GM & Chrysler only employ 170,000 people. So if all of… 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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici
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 ›
Deed For Lease:The Deadbeats Get To Rent Their Homes Now
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 ›
The Power of Words
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation ~Lenin Our government has ordered up both of these and they are on the way…super sized. Republican, Democrat…it doesn’t matter, I didn’t create… Read More ›
Update: Cash-For-Clunkers
My post on the Cash-For-Clunkers program can be found here. I felt that a list of the unintended consequences should be posted separately, so here they are… Our Losses A perfectly good asset is destroyed. New car prices go up,… Read More ›
A Message From The Children: Enough Already!
When I was a child, politicians often said that this or that was “for the children.” Taxes are being raised to add firefighters or police “for the children.” Teachers unions get better health care, secure higher salaries, increase early retirement… Read More ›
Cash for Clunkers: A Program to Scrap
Hot off the bad idea assembly line, and direct from the unintended consequences warehouse, our government has cobbled together yet another ridiculous idea in their drunken stumble of an effort to revive the economy. So let’s consider what is really… Read More ›
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