[email_link] On Tuesday, President Obama went to Osawatomie High School in Kansas to deliver an address framing the economic issues for the 2012 election. He was following in the footsteps of turn of the century “progressive” Teddy Roosevelt, who spoke at that same site 100 years ago to rail against big corporations and the privileged,…
[email_link] Five Big Lies In Obama’s Fairness Speech Election ’12: One thing is certainly true about President Obama – no matter how many times people point out the falsehoods in his speeches, he just keeps making them. Case in point: his latest “economic fairness” address. In that speech Tuesday, Obama once again tried to build a…
[email_link] Just more wealth redistribution but not from the rich to the poor but the rich to the government. Albany – Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and legislative leaders on Tuesday announced that they had reached an agreement to raise taxes on New York State’s wealthiest residents as part of a deal to overhaul the tax…
[email_link] High school dropouts on average receive $1,500 a year more from government than they pay in taxes because they are more likely to get benefits or to be in prison, according to a U.S. study released on Wednesday. “Dropping out of high school before receiving a high school diploma places a substantial fiscal burden on the rest…
[email_link] 100 Incredible Views Out Of Airplane Windows 1. London, England Continued SOURCE: http://www.buzzfeed.com
[email_link] A Seattle woman who is receiving welfare assistance from Washington state also happens to live in a waterfront house on Lake Washington worth more than a million dollars. Federal agents raided the home this weekend but have not released the woman or her husband’s name because they have not officially been charged with a crime….
[email_link] The markets have gone from “beyond oversold” into a massive move in just 6 days…4 of them on gaps. My abacus tells me about 75% of the move has occurred in non-trading. I guess after watching the wild swings since the lows in August, this could not be labeled unexpected as this is one…
[email_link] You may not have seen the show “Diary of a Single Mom” co-starring Billy Dee Williams, but your tax dollars helped pay for it. Through the federal economic stimulus program, a company owned by actor-director Robert Townsend was paid more than $230,000 to produce and direct the Web-based show, records show. Other production costs on the…
[email_link] When my husband was diagnosed in July 2009 with esophageal cancer — a disease with a 25% survival rate beyond 18 months — my initial instinct was to talk about inner strength. “You’re going to beat this,” I told him. “You’re strong. You’re healthy. You’re young.” I think I was trying to convince myself…
[email_link] It is with a great sense of disappointment that I write this. Like many others, I hoped that your election would bring a salutary change of direction to the country, despite what more than a few feared was an overly aggressive social agenda. And I cannot credibly blame you for the economic mess that…
