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It is evident that many people who are living in this country either cannot see what is about to happen to us or do not care. The signs of catastrophe are all about us, but many argue that all is well, or insist that we have not moved far enough or fast enough. ...more
October 24, 2009
If we could have eavesdropped on a recent China-India economic conference, I suspect this, in essence, is what we may have heard: Obama's extreme carbon and other taxes on industry will give much of the remaining United States industry to us on a silver platter; especially since we have no carbon controls and our taxes are industry friendly. Their huge unemployment numbers may also give us an opportunity to import skilled workers at reduced cost. ...more
August 7, 2009
Depends on whose ox is being gored. Our media darling Barack Obama quits his job way early and did not even attend most of the meetings scheduled before he quit, but that's fine, no problem. How can a media God do wrong? ...more
July 12, 2009
I am 83 years old and I have seen things come and go. I have never written to my congressman or any newspaper because everything would seem to come back and it wouldn't hurt the people. Now people, get your calculator. The stimulus package has cost the taxpayers in the trillions of dollars. ...more
July 8, 2009
The White House sought today to stress the positive in a looming fight with Congress over a $3.6 trillion budget, saying blueprints put forth by Democratic allies in both chambers hew closely to President Barack Obama's priorities. ...more
March 25, 2009
History will record the third week of March 2009 as Outrage Week in Washington. ...more
March 23, 2009
Tim Truitt of New Port Richey says if the federal government gave the bailout money to ordinary Americans they would end the banks' bad-debt problems. ...more
March 21, 2009
Saving County Tax Dollars I figure if the commissioners really wanted to save money, they could. ...more
March 11, 2009
I lay awake last night thinking of the wonderful achievements we have made during my lifetime. In my childhood some of us dreamed of some day falling heir to one million dollars. Why, if I had a million dollars I would never have to work. I could live in comfort all my life off the interest from that $1,000,000 and could be buried in luxury. There was no expectation of ever achieving such a goal but one could dream, couldn't one? One could also dream that the representatives we sent to D.C (aka District of Colombia) would be humble people whose goal would be to serve the people back home to the best of their ability. They did not deal in very large sums of money. ...more
March 10, 2009
Most of us can't really conceive of just how much money a trillion dollars is. I know it's a "1" with 12 zeros after it, but it's hard to get a handle on how much space that much cash would take up. I keep thinking of those old comic books with Disney's Scrooge McDuck. He kept all his money in a vault that looked like a swimming pool full of dollars. My guess is even Scrooge McDuck didn't have that much cash in his vault. ...more
March 6, 2009
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