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• If We Blow It Up Again It Will Blow Up Again - 19 Apr 2013
  posted in Columns & Economy & Inflation & Money & Property

  How many times must this Ponzi scheme economy show itself for what it is?  How many times must this self-serving Progressive cabal be exposed for the hypocritical central-planning neo-fascists that they are? Back in 2007 when I was speaking of the crash to come I noted that we really didn’t have to worry because our [...]

• Economics 102 - 22 Feb 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Columns & Economy & Inflation

  People avoid silence because they’re afraid of what they might hear. Although we value our freedom of speech, polite conversation in America is subject to one crushing rule, “Don’t talk about religion or politics!” Most of us were raised with this stifling warning in our ears. The purpose was to avoid arguments at the dinner [...]

• Obama pushes $50 billion stimulus plan as automatic budget cuts loom - 21 Feb 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Executive & Gov't Subsidy & Politics & Govt & Spending

  The White House on Wednesday pushed for tens of billions of dollars in stimulus funding for decaying roads and bridges, a request dismissed by Republicans as not serious amid the broader debate over spending cuts in Washington. The plan outlined by administration officials Wednesday calls for $50 billion in spending on highways, transit systems and [...]

• General Motors Is Headed For Bankruptcy — Again - 23 Aug 2012
  posted in 2012 & Big Business & Big Gov & Economy & Gov't Subsidy & Numbers & People & Politics & Govt & waste & Welfarism

  President Obama is proud of his bailout of General Motors.  That’s good, because, if he wins a second term, he is probably going to have to bail GM out again.  The company is once again losing market share, and it seems unable to develop products that are truly competitive in the U.S. market. Right now, the federal government owns [...]

• Third Largest Power Company in the World is the Third Largest Recipient of DOE Risky Loans - 16 Aug 2012
  posted in Big Gov & Big Green & Business & Columns & Corruption & Energy & Environment & Gov't Subsidy & Property

  Through this special series on green-energy crony-corruption, we’ve been highlighting specific examples of green-energy loan guarantees and grants. What connects each of these cases is that they received fast-tracked approval from the Department of Interior (DOI) for their projects. Of course, they also have many other dots that connect, such as key players with White [...]

• Obama signs reauthorization of Export-Import Bank despite earlier opposition - 30 May 2012
  posted in Big Business & Big Gov & Economy & Executive & Gov't Subsidy & Politics & Govt & Stimulus

  President Obama on Wednesday signed a reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank that would raise its lending authority 40 percent to $140 billion by 2014 and pressed Congress to pass a list of other top White House priorities aimed at creating jobs and boosting the economy. Enough Republicans came to the 78-year-old bank’s aid to move [...]

• DeMint: Federal Reserve’s War On Savings - 29 May 2012
  posted in Big Gov & Civil Liberties & Columns & Corruption & Inflation & Money & Property & Spending & Taxation & The Constitution

  Growing up, we were taught to save for a rainy day. Our parents explained that it is important not to spend everything we earn because there may come a time when we need to dip into our savings. For almost the past four years, the Federal Reserve has maintained its federal funds interest rate at [...]

• The Man Who Would Be King - 16 Feb 2012
  posted in 2012 & Columns & Politics & Govt & The Constitution

  In 114 BC, Rome was a democratic Republic.  Representatives elected by popular vote filled the Senate, and the Senate ran Rome.  The Empire was conquered in the name of the Senate and the People of Rome, symbolized by the ever present SPQR seen on every Roman standard in every gladiator movie you have ever watched. [...]

• If the Economy is Getting Better … - 27 Jan 2012
  posted in Economy & Globalism & Spending & Voices & World

  Everywhere you turn these days, someone is proclaiming that the economy is improving.  Barack Obama is endlessly touting the “improvement” in the economy, the mainstream media is constantly talking about “the economic recovery” and an increasing number of Americans seem to be buying into this line of thinking.  A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found [...]

• Federally Funded $6 Million ‘Green Jobs’ Boondoggle in Wisconsin: Less than Two Dozen Jobs Created - 16 Jan 2012
  posted in Bureaucracy & Energy & Environment & Stimulus & waste

  The problems with ‘green job’ creation and the incompetence of the federal government are both evident when analyzing how a “Stimulus” program failed to produce jobs in Wisconsin. Other than a couple government administrators and about a dozen tech college instructors, the Recovery Act’s Green Jobs Program has not created any jobs in Wisconsin. Wisconsin [...]