The unintended side effects of the anti-Obamacare dolts
You’ve heard about businesses, big and small, threatening to move workers to part-time so as to avoid having to pay for Obamacare. Big business claiming that they can’t afford to pay for having...
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A prepper’s holiday season
The patches and crest of the US Army Special Forces- the “Green Berets” The United States Army spends at least a million dollars on every guy (and yes- it’s still a guys-only club) they train to wear a...
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Grandstanding congressmen and CEO pay
Obviously, bombs are a cost no object endeavor- while birth control. needs tight oversight. Reading an editorial about the Planned Parenthood inquisition, I saw a mention that a member of Congress had...
View ArticleBanking inequity
I have a contract sitting around somewhere for a home equity loan with Gem Savings from around 1990. It was one page, letter sized, in large type- and was all I needed to sign to get an equity loan on...
View ArticleStop subsidizing the super rich: alternatives to the Fed rate hike
Today is the day when the mystical magic of economics is played with by people in an echo chamber. And while the actions of Dr. Janet Yellen and the Fed are being anxiously awaited by the Wall Street...
View ArticleHow to stimulate the right part of the economy by saving the government money
With all the fuss about the Fed raising interest rates- which is going to go straight to the banks’ bottom line, it’s time to take a look at a commonsense approach to handing some money back to the...
View ArticleGo see ’The Big Short’ now
There is a good argument against democracy- that people aren’t smart enough to select their leaders. The fact that Bernie Sanders has an editorial in the N.Y. Times today talking about how to reel in...
View ArticleThe bigger the lie: US Military expenditures
Listening to NPR this morning, I got to hear a discussion of the US Debt and how it related to the military- which causes a lot of the debt. They had a local expert, who spewed the ne0-con line: We do...
View ArticleDo we care if Mark Zuckerberg loses billions?
“The Facebook” was a hormonal male’s idea of how to make it easier to pick up girls at Harvard, where somehow, he was a student. The best of the best. Somehow, it morphed into a gigantic gossip board,...
View ArticleThe Mass Layoff Act of 2023
Had I beaten Mike Turner, I would have been advancing this legislation in Congress. Instead, he’s still whining about classified documents in homes. For the record, I don’t care if you are Biden or...
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