Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Friday, February 18, 2011

Wisconsin’s governor manufacturers a fiscal “crisis”, moves to crush unions and then threatens to call out the National Guard.

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The brazenness of Wisconsin governor Scott Walker is truly breathtaking. I suppose I have been so naïve that it seemed to me that people li...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

I just truly do not understand how middle and lower class people can vote for Republicans.

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Republicans all across the country seem to have declared war on the middle class. Everything that they are doing appears to be for the bene...
Sunday, November 21, 2010

Boy, I hate Christmas commercials on television.

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When I was a kid, Christmas commercials used to be kind of cute or silly.... "Noelco! Even our name says Merry Christmas!" I am...
Saturday, May 29, 2010

So Rand Paul thinks that accidents just happen all by themselves?

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Here is a recent quote from Mr. Paul on the ongoing BP-caused ecological disaster. What I don’t like from the president’s administration is...
Sunday, April 18, 2010

Peak oil may only be a few years away, according to the U.S. Army..

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There was discussion of this subject a few years ago, when gasoline was running around $4.50 a gallon. However, since then, things seem to ...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Here’s a good question for those who wish for a smaller, almost non-existent government in the United States.

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I saw this question posed somewhere on the toobes at some point this week. I wish I had saved the address. I think this is a very good poi...
Saturday, October 31, 2009

Boeing continues its exodus from Seattle.

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Boeing has just made the decision to set up a second 787 production line in South Carolina. Actually, “just” is not an appropriate use of t...
Saturday, February 14, 2009

Republicans are patting themselves on the back for not voting for the stimulus bill.

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The modern Republican party is truly beyond me. I cannot truly believe that so many people elected to public office can be so small minded ...
Thursday, February 12, 2009

According to someone who looks like he should know, we were about four hours away from losing our entire economic system here in the U.S.

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I really hate the phrase “the end of **** as we know it”, and the person speaking is being perfectly honest. That phrase is fine when I hea...
Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Could the future transportation needs of the U.S. be met with trains?

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I just finished reading a really informative feature story on the Washington Monthly blog . It covers a lot of ground, but it is mostly adv...
Sunday, November 30, 2008

Wal Mart employee trampled to death during Christmas rush. I see the poor economy hasn’t reduced shopper’s insanity.

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I am serious. There really isn’t any word other than “insane” to describe this . NEW YORK - Police were reviewing video from surveillance...
Saturday, November 22, 2008

Don’t the Christmas commercials seem particularly forced this year?

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Several I have seen really are almost manic in the desire to impart that Christmas (read “shopping”) spirit. All you have to do is look at ...
Saturday, November 15, 2008

The economic crisis keeps gathering steam.

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As I have said many times before, I have no training, or even understanding past the basics, of our economic system. But I do read a number...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008

The chickens of financial imprudence are coming home to roost with a vengeance.

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I will be the first to admit that I am very unlearned in financial matters. I think that was one reason I went into engineering in college....
Sunday, July 20, 2008

Greed is good? Not when you would like to have a working economy.

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I was amazed to see Phil Gramm’s statement of a week ago about the U.S. being “a nation of whiners” about the economy. He was rightfully sm...