Just so that I’m clear on this… Our government leaders had very few qualms about handing off $700B to Wall Street and the financial institutions, and passed that level of funding in not time at all. Few stipulations were set into place, even. And that money came from the taxpayers (or will!), a decision that [...]
When Benjamin Franklin wrote the words, “‘In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes” I seriously doubt he would have known that in time we’d have to tack on “fees” to his infamous phrase. But there’s no question that “fees” are the new taxation system of our time. Taxes [...]
There’s a line from one of the most popular movies of recent years that goes like this: “Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?” [...]
Today, news outlets, television news stations, and radio networks got as excited as school children hearing about a class party. The subject was Obama’s plan for “cleaner, more efficient cars.” On the surface, it sounds like a fantastic plan, and one that is long overdue for a nation that has become lackadaisical about how it [...]
In what is clearly becoming more of the same old song and dance from Washington D.C., early morning television shows across the nation excitedly announced that the White House had forced GM CEO, Rick Wagoner, to resign from his position at the head of one of the financially troubled Big Three U.S. automakers. What would [...]
Democracy is defined as “a government by the people, for the people.” But given the events of late, it may be necessary to take a sobering, candid look at things and see whether that’s really the case any longer. By now, “AIG” has become a household word associated with greed and delusions of entitlement. Public [...]
