22nd October 2010
As Americans, we like to tell ourselves that we are the best in everything we do. The biggest, the fastest, the smartest, etc. And while that may have been a true statement in the past, in looking at a slew of recent statistics and numbers from reliable s...
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30th September 2010
According to an Associated Press article today, the political class is about to pass a $30 billion piece of legislation that is supposed to jump start the small business market and get the economy moving again. Components of the legislation include the fo...
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22nd September 2010
I often wondered if politicians are really that ignorant and deficient when it comes to math skills or are they really good at math but arrogant enough to think that they can tell us anything, math wise, and we are too deficient to understand the math lie...
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15th September 2010
As I observe the Obama administration flail away at trying to "fix" the economy, I am reminded of an old Paula Poundstone comedy monologue/skit that she did several years ago. She was discussing that whenever you see a horrid television show, or a very ba...
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02nd September 2010
It does not happen often but every once in a while we come across an instance of a government entity actually reducing its costs and inefficiency when it comes to spending taxpayer money. A short article by Ryan Tracy in the August 23, 2010 issue of Newsw...
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01st July 2010
Probably at some point in our nation's past, this was a true statement: "I'm from the government and I am here to help you." That was when government was much smaller and more focused on a limited set of functions. So limited, in fact, that government was...
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14th May 2010
Although it has been a while since we published the first article, "Eve Of (Financial) Destruction" about how dire the nation's financials are, that does not mean we have stepped back from the eve of financial destruction. Consider some statistics from a ...
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