Economists tell us a recession is when the economy is receding. Growth is obvious. What is a depression? The anecdote goes something like – it’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job, a depression when you lose yours. A lot of people are in a depression and the question is what is their government [...]
As the failure of major public pension funds looms on the horizon, talk is of how to resolve the issue. R. Eden Martin, in a well thought out essay in the WSJ, makes various recommendations that would resolve part of the problem, but his thought, and that of most others, treats the symptoms and not [...]
Environmentalist radicals (ER’s) are something to behold. Their expectations are that all they want should be done with no concern for costs. They concern themselves with anything they think is wrong and their overall viewpoint seems to be that mankind is wrong if he does anything more than the Australian aboriginals. ER’s want the climate [...]
President Obama is a peerless liar. He is so consistent that one only need know he is speaking to know he is lying. Take, for instance, his recent quote about what have become known as the Bush tax cuts. Prez says in part: “… the same tax cuts that have added hundreds of billions of [...]
Little is said about why a larger government decreases economic growth, although symptoms of this are regularly reported. In July 12 issue of The Wall Street Journal, Andreas Bergh and Magnus Henrekson report on the Swedish experiment in socialism and its effect on that economy. For comparative purposes the gentlemen went back to 1960 when [...]
Even though there are no surprises, it turns out the illegal drug business is more interesting than normally thought. Most people know drug dealers, large and small, must somehow transfer their illegally gained money into a legally accepted form in order to use it. The process is known as money-laundering. Bloomberg News reporter Michael Smith [...]
Politics is a curious study and there are many ways of participation. For those of more than a cursory interest there have always been breakfast and lunch and evening get-togethers where friends discuss issues and people of interest. Today there is the internet with blogs, websites and email, which brings me to my tale. There is [...]
We called him socialist, and we were wrong. We called him many things and we were often wrong. We weren’t paying close enough attention. Barack Hussein Obama got himself elected president but shows no presidential abilities. He shows no leadership, even in a wrong direction. He follows the lead of Socialist Nancy Pelosi, and so [...]
Mecklenburg County is in a fiscal mess because of the leadership of various people in positions of influence and power whose ambitions were to spend the taxpayer’s money on their own projects with no consideration of the future. The players were often led by Parks Helms. Helms was a member of the Board of County [...]
Governments evolve much as anything else. One cannot expect otherwise. Situations change, people change, the needs of the people change. So it is no surprise our governments are not what they originally were. The original focus of governments in the US was to provide only a framework for our lives. Defense, postal service, roads, police, [...]
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