A few quotes come to mind when I think about what Ron Paul and the Tea Party ideals represent. Churchill said: “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.” It seems the media is once again attempting to pick the Republican candidate much as they did [...]
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Surely it’s Time for Something Better – Ron Paul
September 18, 2011
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Still buying municipial bonds?
October 12, 2010
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US Cities Face Half a Trillion Dollars of Pension Deficits As I mentioned back in March… municipal debt mostly in the form of unfunded pensions is going to become a monster issue over the next 18 months or so. You are going to see cities going bankrupt or getting bailouts. As bad as it is [...]
Spend Spend Spend Spend Spend
August 9, 2010
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For every 1 billion the federal government spends we (90 million who actually pay federal taxes) will get a bill for $11.11. That’s pretty easy math.. so for instance the additional 57 billion of new ‘stimulus’ last week cost us about $633 each. How much did you earn last week? If they were honest about [...]
A Streetcar Named Bankruptcy
July 27, 2010
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So our illustrious Charlotte city council last night voted to take 25 million of federal money to start a new uptown street car boondoggle.. er I mean transit system. To avoid confusion with the multitude of pet rail projects around here they decided to end service on the uptown trolley that has been in operation [...]
