The founders of the United States, a group of nervy, anti-Colonialists, wrote the U.S. Constitution. There were arguments to be sure. But in making a government of the United States the founders tried to limit the ability of government to become abusive of the people. They did this by dividing government into four parts: the […]
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 […]
When it’s time to vote, do you know where your candidate stands? Do you know what a bond vote actually means? A bond vote is to allow government to borrow money from the future to pay for projects today. Over the past decades, the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, led by the spendthrift Parks Helms, […]
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 […]
Article One, Section Three, of the US Constitution says: “The Senate of the United States shall be composed of Two Senators from each State, chosen by the legislatures thereof, for six Years…..” In 1912 The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution was proposed and it was ratified in 1913. It says: “The Senate…. shall be composed […]
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 […]
