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When I started teaching summer school this year, I told my students, most of whom had failed English 9, that I was there because I had failed. Specifically, I had failed to manage my money properly and was taking the majority of my summer school pay to pay off my last credit card. I paid [...]
August 11, 2011 /
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From Rasmussen Reports: A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 17% of Likely U.S. Voters think the federal government today has the consent of the governed. Sixty-nine percent (69%) believe the government does not have that consent. Fourteen percent (14%) are undecided. According to the report, this is the lowest level ever [...]
August 10, 2011 |
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A Morning Joe appearance from 27 May 2010 (it won’t embed; click on the link below and watch the video): Morning Joe Senator Coburn was on Morning Joe this morning and spoke more truth. I went looking for it and found this oldie. I’ll get today’s interview up when it’s available. Great stuff!
August 2, 2011 |
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Please watch this. This is from last week. It is mostly about the debt / deficit, but he covers a lot of very pertinent topics. Two 15 minute pieces. Great rant! http://www.youtube.com/embed/3tVJ2gqqKWs http://www.youtube.com/embed/66LvgPHsUXY Then again today, on the Senate floor (video loads on the right side of the page): http://www.c-spanvideo.org//SenRe/start/14756/stop/16376
July 30, 2011 |
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And the obvious next question: How far does this have to go before your friends will believe what’s really happening? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgWCAhytQuA&feature=player_embedded
July 27, 2011 |
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…but only among the general public. Only thinking outside the box will help. So far, no evidence this is happening to the degree required in Washington. The language used is “business-as-usual,” “more government is the answer,” “compromise.” Nothing will change until the paradigm shatters. We will continue to compromise right up until it does. http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=15845 [...]
July 26, 2011 |
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…and, of course, more taxes, because someone has to pay for all of this borrowing, you see. You debt slaves out there aren’t deep enough in it yet. I can still see the tops of some of your heads. How the hell do you expect us to do a thorough asset-stripping if you still have [...]
July 25, 2011 |
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This isn’t a democracy. Government by polls = democracy. Democracy = two wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner. ===> Democracy = Where’s my free stuff? Yet, any understanding of the simple math of how a productive free market economy actually works, which is no longer taught in government schools (hmmm, [...]
July 23, 2011 |
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From Accounting Today: A bipartisan group of senators that has been meeting on and off for months to hammer out a budget deficit reduction plan appears to have reunited and gained support on both sides of the aisle for a plan to reduce the budget deficit by $3.7 trillion over 10 years. “The good news [...]
July 22, 2011 |
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I wish I could write like this, but alas…”Edge of the Spending New Frontier” Here’s a teaser: …it is the utopians and their economic policies who have forced their own moment to its crisis. Had Obama not won, they would have been able to comfortably sit back and blame Bush era policies for the mess. [...]
July 21, 2011 |
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