Posted on 02/04/2010 by Gil Jones
You’ll love this. Be sure to read the rest of the article (link below). Then thank your Congresspersons for the additional debt ceiling authorized today which amounts to $45,000 for every man, woman and child in the country!
Federal agencies are spending stimulus money at the rate of $196 million an hour. And they will do [...]
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Posted on 01/07/2010 by Gil Jones
Healthcare “reform” is not your job. Raising an army and protecting the country — and its inherent sovereignty — IS your job.
In none of the enumerated powers (Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution) do we find anything about regulating not only the healthcare industry but, as you are attempting, the individual healthcare choices [...]
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Posted on 08/30/2009 by Gil Jones
My view is that NOTHING is wrong in America — not in the REAL America.
It’s the politics in Washington that is trampling on the Constitution, spending us into the poor house, and padding the pockets of special interests that’s wrong. The following is a piece from Glenn Beck that lays it out pretty nicely. There [...]
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Posted on 06/15/2009 by Gil Jones
The current cover of The Economist is awfully on-point, with a giant ball and chain attached to a crawling baby. It is, of course, the debt bill faced by the developed world, which is the biggest in history.
The entire associated article is empirical, direct, and highly worth reading.
via The Big Bill: Debt and Developed Countries [...]
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Posted on 05/05/2009 by Gil Jones
Following is an intro to an interesting piece on “obamanomics” that includes some very thoughtful analysis. View this without a political agenda and just ask yourself whether there is economic reality in the current federal monetary policy and what is intended as an approach to stimulate an economy perceived to be weak.
The comments following the [...]
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Posted on 04/19/2009 by Gil Jones
Talk about federal budgets can be confusing. Most states (including Texas, thankfully) have constitutional requirements for balanced budgets each year. Therefore, states don’t go into debt like the federal government does. The feds can run deficit budgets and therefore increase debt, and that is what happens year after year. A budget, and the resulting deficit, [...]
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Posted on 04/19/2009 by Gil Jones
The problem is not just the spending supposedly needed for the current economic emergency. Obama claims that he will cut the deficit in half, to $533 billion, by the end of his first term. Two problems: 1) The Congressional Budget Office says the more likely number is $672 billion, and 2) that is 46 percent [...]
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