There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of economists that will tell you that if you want to see where we are headed if we don’t fix our fiscal house, all you have to do is look at Greece, Europe, and the EU. Just as many will also tell you that the “fix” for our exploding national …
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If there are only three or four cars capable of 70 mpg, the gas tax revenue shortfall angle is negligible. But not necessarily a limitation. There’s nothing stopping Washington from coming up with a new tax to replace half the gas tax revenue that would be lost by doubling the gas mileage (presuming every car …
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Whether from ignoring illegal immigration, as is the official position of the Obama administration with their Mexican Dream Act, or by an open border agreement in the EU, the problems remain the same. No assimilation, and overloading of support systems. A wave of immigrants who began arriving in Italy and southern Europe following the Arab …
Listen to the advice from someone who has been there. Where ‘there’ is the place where President Obama is taking this country. This video shows what this writer, and I’m not alone on this point, was saying about the Obama administration two years ago. Essentially, they are heading the country southbound in the northbound lane. …
President elect Sauli Niinisto will be the first president from the conservative National Coalition Party since 1956, and the first in 30 years from a party other than the center-left Social Democrats. The 63-year-old took 63 percent of the votes, compared to 37 percent for his rival, Greens candidate Pekka Haavisto, official results showed with …
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The Euro zone is in trouble. Hungary pulled the sale of their public debt in three-year bonds. Could not afford the yields over nine percent. Meanwhile, Standard & Poor’s downgraded Hungary’s bonds to junk status. ‘Too big to fail’ is one thing. Try this, ‘Too big to save.’ The teachable moment here is, unless we …
And for your viewing and listening pleasure, Herman Cain takes a fully loaded question from a liberal in the audience. Link: Herman Cain 2012
With the economy still in recession, and the President still touting his American Jobs Act, Americans are becoming more skeptical about what all the stimulus spending has done for them. And the news about questionable stimulus spending and special deals is beginning to bubble up to the surface. Some new, some old. Old news that …
Check out this new TV ad from Ford. Their version of the man on the street press conference. The premise is that the subjects are real Ford owners using their own un-rehearsed response to a question from the ‘press corps.’ ‘Chris’s’ response is golden. Took the words right out of my F150-owning mouth. Obviously Ford …
This should at least be enough to cause concern. Serious concern. Massive rout spells trouble for Wall Street Europe on Brink of ‘Major Financial Collapse’ Greece in panic as it faces change of Homeric proportions Greece: The create escape Italy under fire in widening euro debt crisis Business, consumer views darken in Europe Euro-Zone Debt …