When you see that macho ‘burly-man’ senior on the AARP commercials threatening the Super Committee from discussing any reductions to SS/Medicare, show him this chart: You know the ad I’m talking about. The one where the burly-looking senior looks in the camera like John Wayne and intones something to this effect: ‘You mess with our Social […]
America is great because: A) We have great infrastructure; public education and public welfare systems, or B) People have the freedom to make and create whatever products or services they want to and are only constrained by their creative energies. Massachusetts Senate Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren recently fired the opening salvo in her campaign against […]
‘My Fellow Americans: Now is not the time to weep or moan. Now is not the time to look back and assess blame. I have made more than my fair share of mistakes. People in Congress on both sides of the aisle, on Wall Street, in the Big Banks, in Detroit and in the mortgage […]
You would like to think that someone in Washington must know how to ‘create jobs’ with all the talk that emanates from the White House and Capitol Hill on a daily basis, wouldn’t you? If you listen to Republicans talk, you would be led to believe that all you have to do is ‘swear on […]
Now that S&P has fired a shot across the bow of the United States in terms of a debt downgrade, maybe it is time for the adults to show up in the room in Washington and dictate the next steps. If there are any, that is. There are many good reasons for being unabashedly for […]
When the National Mall’s Port-A-Johnnies are shut down. No kidding. It happened before in 1995. It will happen again in 2011 or something very similar. President Gerald Ford, one of the greatest spending bill veto-wielding Presidents in the history of the American Republic, coined the phrase: ‘Our long national nightmare is now over’ when he […]
Winston Churchill had the most tempestuous relationship with a female “friend,” Lady Astor, that could be had without being officially married. She called him a “drunk” one night at a dinner party. He replied, ‘”Lady Astor, I may be drunk now but in the morning, I will be sober. You, on the other hand, will still […]
This is the last straw! I can handle it when the AARP, the American Association of Retired Persons, say they are not competing with for-profit insurance companies when, in fact, the AARP is one of the world’s largest retailers of health care insurance, travel insurance and life insurance in the history of man. I can […]
We have heard the same answer from 2 different people who know far more about complicated financial matters than anyone else we know so we guess it must be ‘true’: ‘QE-2 is where the Fed expands its balance sheet by making up money out of thin air. This allows them, the Fed, the ability to […]
Quick: Which of the things listed below do NOT require a photo ID to perform? (a) Buy cigarettes or alcohol (b) Enter a federal building (c) Board a commercial airplane (d) Purchase over-the-counter antihistamine (f) Vote in an election You are correct. ‘F’ it is, dumb as it is, completely absurd in 21st century America. […]
