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Quotes From The Political Circus

July 21, 2011

I found the following current event quotes on The Patriot Post. Insane The New Sane: "The same politicians who spent $1.7 trillion more than they collected, in just this year alone, say the problem is that private citizens are not paying enough. … [B]ecause the political class has made the national debt so high, it [...]

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Crazy Tea Partiers Want To Balance Budget

July 19, 2011

That radical right-wing lunatic fringe known as the Tea Party has led the way to the introduction of House legislation known as H.R. 2560, aka Cut, Cap, And Balance. Wait until you get a load of what these Republican wingnuts are proposing: H.R. 2560, The Cut, Cap, and Balance Act, is based on the framework [...]

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Finally, A Democrat Deficit Reduction Plan

July 10, 2011

The Democrats in Congress may not be able to do their jobs and produce a budget, but they have finally been embarrassed into producing a plan to address our record deficits. All hail the Democrats ! It's about time, since the Dems control the Executive Branch and the Senate. In other words, the Dems are [...]

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Clearing Away The Tax Clutter

June 24, 2011

The problem with politics is politicians…or is it the other way around ? Whatever it is, it prevents people from thinking clearly. To see politics at work, you don't have to look any further than our muddled, bureaucratic nightmare of a tax code. The last I heard, it was about 67,000 pages long, and it [...]

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Why We Have To Address Entitlements

June 1, 2011

Here's why, by the numbers. Total federal revenue for FY2011 will be about $2.2 trillion. Here are the three biggest federal expenditures YTD: Medicare/Medicaid – $815.1 billion Defense including wars – $698.5 billion Social Security – $711.8 billion Medicare, Defense, and Social Security expenditures YTD comes to $ 2.225 trillion. These three areas are consuming [...]

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Looking For A Leader

April 26, 2011

Even though I write about politics, I hate politics. More precisely, I hate most politicians. I have never seen a bigger bunch of lying thieves in my life than the people we elect to run our country. It would take a hearty dose of sodium pentathol to get most of them to tell the truth. [...]

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The Tax Fallacy

April 12, 2011

I don't know a softer way to put this. When it comes to federal spending and revenue, left-wingers are shameless liars, or morons. The standard talking point from the left goes like this – the Bush tax cuts caused huge deficits, and are the major reason we have a $1.6 trillion deficit today. In a [...]

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In The Midnight Hour

April 8, 2011

We're over six months into FY2011 (the government's fiscal year runs from October 1-September 30), and Congress has still not passed a budget for FY2011. There will be a government shutdown at midnight unless Congress can pass a budget or another temporary continuing resolution (CR) today. First, I must say…Heckuva job, Congress. Thanks for NOT [...]

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Government For Sale – ObamaCare

April 3, 2011

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the [...]

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Learning From GE

April 3, 2011

The New York Times recently noted that General Electric (GE), the largest corporation in America and second largest in the world, according to Forbes, made a boatload of tax-free money in 2010: [GE] reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, and said $5.1 billion of the total came from its operations in the United States. Its [...]

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Fixing Ohio

March 25, 2011

Before we get around to fixing Ohio, we have to identify Ohio's problems. 1) Ohio has an $8 billion budget shortfall. Here's how the Cleveland Plain Dealer described the problem last March: COLUMBUS, Ohio — The state of Ohio is steering straight toward a cliff. At the bottom of that cliff is a hole nearly [...]

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A Failure Of Leadership

February 15, 2011

Our great leaders address the pressing problems of their times. That's what George Washington did. So did Abraham Lincoln, FDR, Truman, JFK, and Reagan. Taking on their responsibilities is what made these leaders great. The most pressing problem of our time is DEBT. Some would say it's jobs, but that's only in the short term. [...]

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