The debt ceiling is due to be voted on soon and we have come around more to the position that the best thing Congress can do is to leave it alone as is today: $14 trillion, $294 billion is the legal limit of all of our borrowing can be under existing law. What would happen […]
Talk about truly ‘draconian’ solutions! A couple of weeks ago, a young woman by the name of Jocelyn Nubel from NYU boldly announced a campaign to support the full funding of Planned Parenthood in the rather desultory ‘historic’ (not) budget agreement we have recently been discussing. Her solution? Have every woman participate in a ‘sex […]
This comes from the truly rationally disturbed and troubled file. President Obama has once again resorted to his Felix the Cat bag of tricks and pulled out one of the dumbest and most manipulated debates in American history: “Let’s Make the Rich Pay Their Fair Share of Our Taxes!” Obama is just doing what his […]
Recent reports trumpeted the news that President Obama’s approval ratings have fallen to “only” 42% of the people approving of his performance in office; 50% of them say they “disapprove” of his work so far. With unemployment still in double-digits, millions of Americans out of work with many of them having zero chance of returning […]
Since we are getting down to the ‘nut-cuttin’ (don’t ask) of finally realizing we are spending way, way, way too much money on things that are not absolutely critically essential to the health, wealth and safety of the United States of America, what do you say we take a closer look at PBS, the Public […]
One of the great fight songs of all time is “On Wisconsin!” which is usually reserved for the Fighting Badgers of the University of Wisconsin football team: “Forward is our driving spirit; Loyal voices ring,” the song proclaims. Retreating and running away from their elective duties seems more like their ‘driving spirit’ nowadays, what with […]
Was it possibly that scoundrel Bernie Madoff who made off with hundreds of billions of dollars of client funds and lost them all after he took his big fat cut out of it first, of course? Was it possibly that scoundrel Bernie Madoff who made off with hundreds of billions of dollars of client funds […]
Wonderment over this “grand compromise” of the recent tax deal is similar to the one Clara Peller, the great lady who did the Wendy’s commercials in the early 1980’s, had when she asked, “Where’s the beef?” Our 2010 questions are these: 1) Where’s the Compromise? 2) Where’s the Courage? 3) Where’s the Sacrifice? It is […]
Sounds almost like a John Lennon song, and since today marks the 30th anniversary of his assassination in NYC, why not use his iconic post-Beatles song as inspiration? I’ve been intrigued by the ongoing debate/tirade/jeremiad (take your pick) by some people, and a lot of Tea Party affiliators, regarding the role of the Federal Reserve […]
The upcoming ‘debate’, such as it will be, on the recommendations of the Bowles-Simpson Deficit Reduction Commission remind me of the annoying kid who would invite you to play basketball at their house on their backyard court with their basketball. Inevitably, almost as if scripted, some foul would be inflicted on said annoying kid (SAK) […]
