Generational Theft?

Cute title and the new buzzword from the Right……it is being used by McCain, Boehner, Cantor and a wealth of right wing talkers on the airwaves…..
The hundreds of billions of dollars Washington is borrowing to finance this pork-barrel monstrosity will come from our children and grandchildren. This is not “stimulus” – it’s generational theft.
McCain said [...]

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Financial Cowards!

The Dems. well at least most of them, are working hard to try and find a way to control the financial markets so these thieving a/holes cannot bring down another booming economy by their insatiable need for profits and not just profits but rather obscene profits…..
You would imagine that the Repubs would do all they [...]

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Real Costs Of Unemployment

We have all heard the stories, the horror, the spin and the outright lies about unemployment….we have heard what it is doing to the economy, to Wall Street and the resty….but what is the “true” costs of unemplyment?
A new New York Times/CBS News poll offers a glimpse of the devastating human impact of the US [...]

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Open Letter To Congress #2

As anyone who visits Info Ink will testify that I am an opinionated SOB and have NO problem tell it like it is, or at least as it looks to me….this will be the second open letter that I will have sent to Congress…it is just my small attempt to let the guys and gals [...]

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Make The Bastards Pay!

We have all heard the yelling coming from Main Street….sometimes loudly……the banks took taxpayer money, by the billions, now they are somewhat solid they want to pay the same group that caused the meltdown,  millions in bonuses….so they get bailed out for making crappy decisions and now they want their reward for doing so…..and now [...]

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Tax Incentives?

For as long as I can remember in the political arena, tax incentives have been a buzz word to try and convince people that something is being done that will help whatever the situation is at the time….
The more things change, the more they stay the same…..someone somewhere made that line famous…..Obama’s new job proposals [...]

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It’s Jobs, Stupid!

Finally, the admin has addressed the need for jobvs on Main Street, they have already made Wall Street more profitable and now they want us normal people to go back to work….a helluva idea…..it is about time……he is in a hurry noiw because the Dems are losing support and will most likely lose one House [...]

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Can Wall Street Be Regulated?

By now all the world knows is how big Wall Street is and how they can make or break an economy…..and recently they broke the whole damn thing!
And because they, Wall Street, was too big to fail….there is a growing attitude in Washington that these little turds need to be more accountable for their actions….something [...]

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Where Has The Middle Class Gone?

Gone to foreclosure……gone to food stamps….gone to unemployment…..every one…..and the sad part of the saga is that it will most likely never return…..nothing being offered up by the government will protect or strengthen the middle class…it is a dying breed….it is dying slowly and most painfully…
I have heard economists and economic journalists say that part [...]

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Should He Stay Or Should He Go?

That is the question that is being batted around Washington these days…the “HE”  is Geithner the Obama Secretary of the Treasury….in recent hearings on Capital Hill…..the following is being reported in The Hill:
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is coming under new pressure from conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats to resign.
Reps. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) and Kevin Brady [...]

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