As always there is a penalty to pay for actual honest discussion. At the recent Republican debate Newt Gingrich abandoned the canned, meaningless, GOP comment of “allowing illegal immigrants to have amnesty is a magnet” or as Romney said “I don’t want to talk about who is going to stay and who is going to go” in favor of an [...Read More...]
Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan presentation has a HUGE error
Sorry I haven’t posted in so long. I have been busy with the radio show. Herman Cain’s presentation of his 9 9 9 plan is GROSSLY flawed. General Overview of why it won’t work: If you analyze 9-9-9 from a general overview you can see the flaw without doing any computation at all. There is no question you are giving [...Read More...]
State of the Union and the Republican Response
The fact is the sate of the Union is; that we are spending ourselves into oblivion. You may be among those who know that but do you also see you can not count on the Republicans to get it? The simple addition of an R after their name does not mean much. Obama says we are going to “freeze spending [...Read More...]
Republicans still don’t GET IT
When I heard Speaker Boehner say it was the goal of the Republicans to reduce the spending by $100 Billion dollars this year I thought I would explode. I hope I misunderstood but I am afraid I didn’t . Fox News reported he said the goal was to cut spending by $100 billion but he wasn’t sure they could do [...Read More...]
IRS late on refunds due to late legislation
I can’t get over how the media reports things without thinking them through. I am listening to Fox report that the IRS can’t figure out this year’s tax returns and process refunds due to Congress’ late approval of the Bush Tax Rates. The problem with that is the extension or lack thereof never had any bearing on 2010. The rules [...Read More...]
We are the WORST negotiators in the world
Today we learned of a “secret deal” returning enriched uranium from the Ukraine to Russia. The quantity was adequate to build two nuclear bombs. This is all part of our attempt to secure the world’s supply of nuclear material. I am all for that but here is the “deal” we “negotiated”. Russia gets the enriched uranium they degrade and use [...Read More...]
Class Envy – Taxing the rich and more
This is probably the most important post I can make. The hardest part is knowing exactly where to begin. Perhaps the quote from Martin Niemoller is a good overview. “First they came …” is a famous statement attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their [...Read More...]
Good Intentions make Good Pavement but remember where the road leads
I am preparing for the possibility of running a morning talk show on a local radio station I have an interest in. As part of that I was considering a local news issue and wondered how I would comment on it. Unlike most of the pundits and commentators I have followed, I strive to be objective and be absolutely truthful [...Read More...]
Ear Marks – Government Pork
This is another of those issues the pundits miss the point on. All of the discussion is about the cost of the ear marks. The statement by Mitch McConnel that it “isn’t a significant amount of money” and is not what they should be focusing on drives me crazy. He says it is only about $16 Billion dollars and he [...Read More...]
The most insidious tax
What tax is that you say? GOVERNMENT INDUCED INFLATION, says I. First off - is it a tax and why is it the most insidious (and sinister)? It is not recognized for what it is and it IS a tax. It goes unnoticed. It affects everyone, even the very poor. There is a difference in government induced and naturally occurring [...Read More...]
