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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 iswrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the factsthey misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. …And what [...]

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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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Adventures In Denial: $1.5 Trillion Deficit

January 27, 2011

The Congresssional Budget Office projects the 2011 federal deficit will be $1.5 trillion. Funny how this came out the day AFTER the State Of The Union address. Purely coincidental, I'm sure. The Washington Post knows where to place the blame: The still-fragile economy and fresh tax cuts approved by Congress last month will drive the [...]

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Economic Lunacy

December 23, 2010

"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have…The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." – Thomas Jefferson When President Obama agreed to extend the Bush tax cuts by two years, left-wingers were very irate that taxes weren't going up (what kind of [...]

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Maybe Obama IS Smarter

December 11, 2010

Liberal Democrats are throwing major hissy fits over President Obama's so-called tax cut deal with Republicans. Meanwhile, most Republicans appear to be tentatively supportive of the deal. My question is, why is either side taking it's positions ? Let's look at the tax cut deal from a purely political viewpoint. I'll try to put my [...]

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Give Us Your Money

December 8, 2010

Above is a picture of Nancy Pelosi's face after she found out President Obama agreed to a two-year extension of the Bush tax cuts. Oh, wait. My bad. I'm told the picture above is Pelosi's normal look. When it comes to taxes, I don't understand Democrats. I don't understand how they think they are entitled [...]

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Alright Already, Let's Raise Warren Buffet's Taxes

November 27, 2010

Mega-billionaire Warren Buffett keeps saying mega-billionaire Warren Buffett should pay more in taxes. He has said it several times already, and said it again to Christiane Amanpour on ABC's This Week – "People at the high end, people like myself, should be paying more taxes” intoned Buffett. Here's a video of Buffett's comments: I want [...]

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The Preliminary Deficit Commission Report

November 11, 2010

We finally have a preliminary report from Obama's Deficit Commission, and…it doesn't eliminate the deficit. Well, shucks. What it does do is propose $4 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years (Obama's budgets are projected to add $9-10 trillion in debt over 10 years). The Deficit Commission is proposing $2 trillion in spending cuts, $1 [...]

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White House Doubletalk On Bush Tax Cuts

November 9, 2010

President Obama once said "words matter." However, when it comes to discussions of extending the Bush tax cuts, the White House seems to believe doubletalk matters. We keep hearing from the White House how extending the Bush tax cuts will "cost" the government so much money. Nonsense. Extending the Bush tax cuts won't "cost" the [...]

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Does The Government Create Jobs ?

October 19, 2010

There is an editorial in today's Akron Beacon Journal written by Mark K. Cassell, an associate professor of political science at Kent State University, titled 'Guess what? Government really does create jobs, millions of them'. Cassell takes issue with statements made by several Republicans that the government does not create jobs. Here's the professor's first [...]

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