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When In Doubt, Ask A Celebrity

October 2, 2009

When seeking solutions to health care, who better to look to than our own Hollywood celebrities ? These celebrities have become very wealthy in our capitalist system, and they live in big mansions. Who better to speak out against the evils of insurance company profits (average 3.4% profit margin) than super-profitable celebs ? I only [...]

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Click Your Heels Together Three Times And Say 'The Stimulus Is Working'

September 8, 2009

“Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.” – Senator Barack Obama, in a 2006 floor speech preceding a Senate vote to extend the federal debt limit.
Ah, how I liked THAT Barack Obama back in 2006, [...]

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Killing The Land Of Opportunity

August 18, 2009

In the last nine months, our federal government has bailed out big business left and right. Wall Street, banks, insurance companies, car companies. The federal government serves as a backstop for big business. Big business also happens to be the ones with the deep pockets, lobbyists, and campaign cash to help get the politicians re-elected. [...]

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Enough Already – Stop Cap-And-Trade

June 28, 2009

“Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends – life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.” – Thomas Jefferson
Allow me to construct a hypothetical set of circumstances. Let's say our country was in the midst of [...]

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Democrats Screw American Workers

March 16, 2009

President Obama's stimulus bill is supposed to create two million temporary construction jobs over the next several years, at great cost to the American taxpayers ($250,000-$500,000 per job). Yet the Democrats, led by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), stripped the E-Verify program out of the stimulus [...]

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The Politics Of Fear

February 15, 2009

"Doing too little or nothing at all will result in an even greater deficit of jobs, incomes and confidence. That is a deficit that could turn a crisis into a catastrophe, and I refuse to let that happen." – Barack Obama, urging passage of his $787 stimulus package
In October 2007, the Dow Jones Industrial Average [...]

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Debate #3 – The Candidates Speak To Joe The Plumber

October 16, 2008

If any of you read my last post, called A Deficit Disorder, you probably know my feelings regarding our federal government's economic policies range somewhere between cynical and disgusted. Lately, with mob boss Hugo Chavez Hank Paulson running the Treasury like Don Corleone, making the big banks an offer they can't refuse to force a [...]

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Buckeye Business Blues

March 25, 2008

According to an Associated Press story, more Ohioans than ever are on food stamps, nearly one in ten.
Amid a sluggish economy, a record 1.1 million Ohioans are getting food stamps, the state’s welfare agency said. That’s about 10 percent of the state’s population.
Caseloads have almost doubled since 2001, when an estimated 628,000 people were in [...]

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