Tag Archives: Entitlements

Facebook and Investing Sans Reality

Yahoo Finance’s Daily Ticker is reporting on what they’re calling the “Facebook IPO Fiasco: Here’s How Small Investors Got Rolled Over.” Facebook’s stock did not “pop” as much as expected on the first day of trading. Investors have come to … Continue reading

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Europe Driving Off the Cliff

Remember when progressives lectured  Americans on the need for the United States to be more like Europe? Good times, good times. From Boris Johnson at The Telegraph on Greece: In the eyes of every politician there is a glassy humiliation, … Continue reading

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Economic Incoherence

James Capretta has a post up over at National Review Online trying to make sense of the Presidents vision for our economy. the president has chosen to define his “plan” (if it can be called that) mainly by saying what … Continue reading

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Pushing the Rope and John Wayne On Entitlements

We have a huge problem with perspective in America regarding the economy and jobs. At some time recently business owners and corporations mutated. They used to exist to provide a service or a product. But today they have become employers … Continue reading

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The Heart of Our Disagreements – Revisited

Today, President Obama told students at a community college in Ohio: their program could be cut “to give folks like me a tax cut that we don’t need and that the country can’t afford.” “Understand this is not a redistribution … Continue reading

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The Heart of Our Disagreements

I’m in the midst of working on the “About” section of the Blog, here, and wanted to share a bit of attitude deep inside the dark matter that is my brain. Some months back the local paper published a story … Continue reading

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