Monthly Archives: January 2013
Government Spending And GDP Growth
The Bureau of Economic Analysis released their initial estimate of US 4th Quarter GDP growth on Wednesday and it wasn’t pretty. “The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.1 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter, the Bureau of Economic Analysis … Continue reading
Posted in economics, Entitlement Programs, politics
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It’s Time For Immigration Reform
It appears that the Senate has reached a bipartisan agreement on Immigration Reform and I support this long overdue legislation. From CNN: Washington (CNN) – “Millions of undocumented immigrants would get immediate but provisional status to live and work in … Continue reading
Posted in Entitlement Programs, Immigration, politics
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NPR Wakes Up
It’s too early to declare the dumbest headline in 2013 but remember this one when we get to the end of the year. From the NPR story (emphasis mine): “For years, Democratic politicians have been shy about talking up the … Continue reading
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How About Dem Apples?
After Wednesday’s Market close, Apple announced its fiscal 2013 1st Quarter results that ended on 29-DEC-12 and after hours trading is causing the stock to drop significantly. The Market is a harsh mistress as evidenced by the following financial results … Continue reading
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Obama Inauguration Pictures
The New York Times published a high resolution picture of the crowd behind Obama as he was giving his 2nd inauguration speech and the picture is shown below. If you click on the NY Times link, you’ll see that you … Continue reading
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Losing Our Religion
In October 2012 there was a report from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life that reveals people in the United States are losing their religion. Here is the main graph from the report: From the poll, 20% of … Continue reading
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The Lunatic Left
I’ve said many times that the Left isn’t serious about reducing our $16+ trillion debt or our $1+ trillion annual budget deficits. They are only concerned about punishing the successful and passing out more goodies to their base. Do you … Continue reading
Posted in economics, politics
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Obama Presser on 14-JAN-13
In case you were at work today (like me) and missed the Whiner-In-Chief give another presser, let me encourage you to read the transcript because three very important facts were revealed about Obama. Obama is Inconsistent As predicted, there is … Continue reading
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Why I Support #TGDN
In case you missed it, over the weekend Todd Kincannon (@ToddKincannon) launched a follow-back hash tag #TGDN to help prevent voices from being silenced on Twitter by its auto suspension algorithms. #TGDN stands for Twitter Gulag Defense Network and you … Continue reading
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Obama Is A Big Spender – Part 3
To those who aren’t blind followers of the Dear Leader Obama, it is evident that the Federal spending under the current regime has far surpassed any other President in the modern era. There are many ways to show this and … Continue reading
Posted in economics, Entitlement Programs, politics
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Playing In The Margins
Our esteemed representatives in Washington DC just passed another sweeping tax overhaul with the Fiscal Cliff Senate deal but as I see it, this is just another instance of our Federal Government playing in the margins and avoiding the much … Continue reading
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We Have A Spending Problem
Well, it happened. The House passed the Senate Fiscal Cliff ‘deal’ and now tax rates will go up on those making over $400,000 and spending cuts have been kicked down the road. So how much tax revenue did this deal … Continue reading
Posted in economics, politics
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