Turn This Election Into a Rout On the Strength of Numbers
800 billion dollars. 500 billion dollars. One trillion dollars.These figures in and amongst themselves don't register with the American people. We can't make sense of them. They are too big to...
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"Lost Treasure": (My Continuing Sculptural Gifts to the GOP)
Lost Treasure©2008 Emily Duffy Photo by Sibila SavageCross-posted at my blog.Dimensions: 29" x 29" x 21"Description: Small wood coffin filled with gold soldiers and coins. Inside, lid has an abused...
View ArticleNo money to save my life but billions for Wall Street cowboys
Hypocrisy is literally killing me, and I am not alone.
View ArticleGovernment spending vs revenues vs bailouts
With all the money flowing from the government with the various bailouts, I, as a layman, wanted a better understanding of the magnitude of these new debts vs our government finances.
View ArticleA Hardship Letter to Countrywide - A Family on the Brink of Disaster
One reader - who we will call "Kitty" - has volunteered her to share her story, recounting the chain of events that has thrust her family from the comfort of middle-class security to the brink of...
View ArticleBernanke, Paulson and Bair Testify - But Can We get a Witness?
By Anthony M. FreedTwo months ago, in late September, I penned a piece titled Liars, And The Lying Lies They Are Telling You, which examined just one single publicly available FDIC document from 2002...
View ArticleGM, Ford, Chrysler: Break 'em up!
When Jimmy Carter's justice department broke up Bell Telephone in the late 1970's we had a revolution in communications.All of a sudden, the heavy boot of Bell Telephone wasn't on the neck of all the...
View ArticleNapolitano Must Bring an End to Chertoff's Billion Dollar Speed Bumps
On the day that Barak Obama takes the oath of office workers will be pouring concrete and welding steel to extend the border wall. Today, walls slice through 378 miles of our borderlands. The Secure...
View ArticleSpace Elevator Race - Revisited
...And so, for example, if America were to succeed in building a –in its essence a 22,000-mile cable, operating like a pulley, dangling down from a stationary satellite, a concept first put forth in...
View ArticleObama fails first test; The Prolonged Chrysler Crisis
US Taxpayers rejoice as this Administration's meddling ends at bankruptcy court - where it belonged many BILLIONS ago!I would ask that you step back to look at the larger landscape this episode...
View ArticleSo, I'm Not Sure If I Understand This
I'm kind of puzzled here. See, I can see why Wall Street is not real keen on having the Federal Government have some kind of Czalary Czar hand pick how much of our tax dollars can go to the bad...
View ArticleDeficits matter - the government is the economy now
Remember way back, the last time unemployment was over 10%, when Reagan was President, and his economic flunkies said "deficits don't matter"?Well they do ... and now the deficits are much much bigger...
View ArticleEnd Big Oil's Billions in Government Subsidies NOW!
In the face of HUGE profits made by Big Oil it is time to stop subsidizing them with taxpayer money NOW. The American people are suffering. The Big Oil firms and their extremely wealthy executives...
View ArticleThe Fine Line Between Hope & Delusion: The Gamble of President Obama’s Afghan...
Yes, there is some inherent risk in any foreign policy venture, but there seems to be something so…. what’s the word… compulsive, about our Afghan policy. Compulsive or problem gambling is defined as...
View ArticleTime to Get Out of Afghanistan
The President was right in his speech last month that we need to begin bringing our troops home from Afghanistan. But a counter-terrorism strategy doesn’t need 70,000 boots on the ground, any more than...
View ArticleDollars from singles to trillions
Check out http://xkcd.com/...and the more readable (because its enlarged greatly)http://xkcd.com/...
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Ex AIG CEO sues US Taxpayers for $25 Billion MORE BAILOUT MONEY! They didn't...
And they wonder why we Occupy Wall Street! Just get a load of this . . .With job creating geniuses like this, who needs sociopathic super-villians? Former AIG CEO Maurice Greenberg, however, thinks...
View ArticleBERNIE BERNIE BERNIE
Can Bernie get the Democratic nomination for President? More importantly, could he win in a general election for President? I wish I knew.Bernie Sander's is a hell of a guy. In fact, I don't think he's...
View ArticleTHE TOP 10 MEN
THE TOP 10 No 1. BAE Systems – UKArms sales in 2008$32.42 billionFounded1999Employees107,000image: realitypod.com/...Element removedimage: realitypod.com/...Element removedBAE systems from UK, the...
View ArticleIs Defense a problem?
DefenseI totaled up the last 16 years Defense Budget the total came to “$9,580,000,000,000.00”. That’s 9 as in Trillion so what does that tell me? It’s obvious you can not buy a winning military....
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