A lot of people look at the so called "mess' Obama inherited and leave it at that to explain all the ills in the world today. But Joel Pollack in Briebart pointed out a view not many of us have heard. Obama also inherited an opportunity, and wasted it. President Barack Obama has often lamented that he “inherited” a mess from George. W. Bush. His opponents acknowledge that, but argue that Obama made the situation worse. “Did they come in and inherit a ... Read More

Well I don't think that is what he said exactly, but it was a graphic I found on Facebook.  He did say something close to that though. Here is a scary thought though. If Obama couldn't fix what George Bush and a majority Democratic Congress did, who on earth would want the job to do so now? Obama has destroyed our debt, our jobs, and it all looks hopeless. But anyway, what he DID say, I found on this video: I love one ... Read More

Yes, it's vacation time. Or is it? How many do you know, thanks to wild government spending creating a horrid economy, can't afford to take a vacation this year? But don't worry, one of the biggest spenders in Washington, our leader, will not miss his vacation. Question is, is this really a good time for Obama to have a get away costing millions of  OUR tax dollars?? I don't think so. From U.S. NEWS Obama's Vineyard Vacation Will Cost Taxpayers Millions At a time when ... Read More

We all know how insane the economy is, we also know that the spending in Washington is only driving us deeper in debt and ruining it into a state like Greece has now. With that in mind, Jim sent me an analogy, assuming all the figures are correct, should make us stop and think. What if we ran our households like Congress runs this country? The U.S. Congress sets a federal budget every year in the trillions of dollars. Few people ... Read More

I know as Americans we don't see everything the same. Numbers don't lie, and the mess our country is in is very telling too. I just read how Obama's policies have contributed to our stagnant economy. Agree with it or not, he has been president for years now, and time to stop blaming others for this downward spiral. In this morning’s USA Today, President Obama wrote, “In the short term, my No. 1 focus is getting our economy back to a place where businesses ... Read More

Perspective: How much is a trillion? A trillion is $1,000,000,000,000. That's 12 zeroes. One trillion is one million times one million. If we filled Michigan's football stadium with people (all 100,000+ seats occupied) and then gave every person there one thousand dollars, we'd have to fill the stadium every weekend for roughly the next 40,000 years before we could have passed out a trillion dollars. Still not good enough? How about this: NBA superstar LeBron James earns about $40 million a year ... Read More

TODAY: Obama pledges 'singular focus' on economy... ONE YEAR AGO: 'Obama to focus hard on economy'... TWO YEARS AGO: Obama to put 'renewed focus' on economy... Maybe we'd be better off if he didn't focus. Period. ... Read More

If you have your head buried in the sand, or you are too busy Christmas shopping to notice that the economy is in worst shape than ever, please take a look at the following headlines and tell me we don't need a regime change. GEORGIA: HUNDREDS LINE UP IN COLD FOR HEAT HELP... Assistance Funds Quickly Depleted... 'Almost like being in soup line during great depression'... VIDEO... DELAYING TAX VOTE COULD 'CRASH STOCK MARKET' STARTING 12/15 Nation's '2nd Most Dangerous City' To Lay Off Nearly ... Read More

Here is some interesting pre-election reading from Open Market dot org. Basically, a Harvard Economist says that Obama and Democrat's Stimulus package FAILED because it was no more than a reward for Obama's friends. Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron explains why the $800 billion stimulus package failed in a recent article. What’s interesting about Dr. Miron’s critique is that he shows how the stimulus was a failure even if you take for granted liberal assumptions about economic policy (such as Keynesian economic ... Read More

There  are just too many accounts on how our economy is failing out there to keep track of. I decided to provide a place for the top headlines of today: Democrats: “Spending For Dummies” Or: "How to waste someone else's money for profit and pleasure" We’ve seen it splattered all across the front pages; more spending for jobs, more spending for bailouts, more spending for Unemployment, more spending for Teachers and Unions and special interests. We’ve also seen ... Read More

According to Senior Political Analyst Michael Barone, the Obama economy is sending Americans to their mattresses. He puts it this way: People seem to be following this investment strategy. Step one: Go to Mattress Discounters and buy the biggest mattress you can find. Step two: Take it home and stuff all your money in it. Step three: Lie down and get some rest. He gives some good reasons for this investment strategy: Home mortgage interest rates are the lowest in history, ... Read More

Remember the lady who was going to be so thankful to Obama, because she wasn't going to have to ever worry about paying her mortgage? Maybe in a backwards way, she was right. I mean if they foreclose on your house, there is no mortgage anymore to pay for and there is ALARMING homelessness under Obama.... On Yahoo News: Suburban homeless: Rising tide of women, families. Homelessness in rural and suburban America is straining shelters this winter as the economy founders and joblessness hovers ... Read More

"I place the economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the great danger to be feared. To preserve your independence, we must not let our leaders load us with perpetual debt. We mus t make our choice between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude." ~ Thomas Jefferson How true. I am always surprised on the foresight of our forefathers. Yet in all our access to knowledge and what we can learn from the past, we ... Read More

People have concerns about the Health Care Bill that Obama is so quick to rush through. I hope our lawmakers continue to care about what people want and don't want on this issue: I really liked this lady, she made some great points and her delivery was superb. "I look at this health care plan and I see nothing that is about health or about care. What I see is a bureaucratic nightmare, senator. Medicaid is broke, Medicare is broke, Social Security is ... Read More

The so called reason for this large tax increase? In all it sounds good, limit pollution and usher in an era of cleaner energy. Critics of the legislation have said it will cost too much to our already weak economy, so they wanted safeguards in place. Even as Democrats have promised that this cap-and-trade legislation won't pinch wallets, behind the scenes they've acknowledged the energy price tsunami that is coming. During the brief few days in which the bill was debated ... Read More

It seems with the economy as it is today, the amount of Vasectomy procedures is on the rise, about 48% more vasectomy consultations. Doctors around the United States are reporting a sharp increase in the number of vasectomies performed since the economy soured last year, with one noting that many of his clients are from the beleaguered financial industry. Their best guess is that the trend is due both to a decreased desire to have children because of the expense involved, and ... Read More

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, receiving support from the Canadian economist Prof Mundell and Nobel-prize winner Professor Robert Mundell, is proposing a one world currency, the Acmetal. Mr Nazarbayev's coining of "acmetal'' combines the Greek word "acme,'' meaning peak or best, and "capital.''   Mr Nazarbayev and Prof Mundell urged the Group of 20 leading developed and developing economies to form a working group on the proposal at their summit on the global economic crisis in London on April 2. "We should deliver our thoughts and the thoughts of ... Read More

Hidden in the so called Stimulus plan, is a little scary section re-defining health care that will affect “every individual in the United States”. What does it have to do with stimulating the economy? Nothing. If fact, if the government of "Change" really wanted to new health care system, they should have the courage to form legislation under and in the name of health, not hide it in a stimulus package and rush it through, claiming it “inexcusable and irresponsible” for ... Read More

Recently comments by the South Carolina governor, to me, shows a total awareness of what is going on with this country of late: The South Carolina Republican said such an economy is “what you see in Russia or Venezuela or Zimbabwe or places like that where it matters not how good your product is to the consumer but what your political connection is to those in power.” “A problem that was created by building up of too much debt will not be ... Read More

In spite of jobs lost, companies closing, economy falling apart around them, Congress will get a $4,700 pay increase, amounting to an additional $2.5 million that taxpayers will spend on congressional salaries. “As lawmakers make a big show of forcing auto executives to accept just $1 a year in salary, they are quietly raiding the vault for their own personal gain,” said Daniel O’Connell, chairman of The Senior Citizens League (TSCL), a non-partisan group. “This money would be much better spent helping the millions of ... Read More

Do you mean to tell me that our government is practically writing blank checks, giving it away, only to have those companies use the bailout money, pay lobbyists to ask the government for more??? Lou Dobbs says: Lobbyists from the banking industry and other groups are in a frenzy to win an even bigger share of the bailout for their clients. The list of industries seeking bailout money is expanding by the day. Lobbyists are making hefty profits even as this economic ... Read More

This was forwarded to me and if it works or not, we'll likely never know! The Birk Economic Recovery Plan I'm against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG. Instead, I'm in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a We Deserve It Dividend. To make the math simple, let's assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+. Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up.. So ... Read More

Just when it looks more complicated than I can grasp, a voice of reason arrives to my inbox. I just couldn't get my hands on what was right - for our government to bailout this Wall Street crisis before it gets to Main street or do we just let it go? Newt Gingrich seems to be a reasonable voice in this. This is what arrived to my inbox: One of the first things he suggests is that the two presidential candidates ... Read More

If you read the news headlines at all, between the economy, housing crisis, and food issues, it's all starting to sound like the Black horse of the Apocalypse. Consumer Confidence Falls to a 26 year low Many States Appear to be in a Recession UN secretary-general calls food price rise global crisis... Oil Prices Jump Oil shortage in UK ahead of strike: 'Stations running dry'... STUDY: Oil prices to double in next 4 years...   But it's this headline that I thought was a no-brainer even when this ... Read More

  Yesterday, I sold my house. . Prior to settlement, at the advice of a friend, I acquired a copy of the settlement sheet. I saw in advance the estimated amount I would receive for the sale of the house. When I got there, two times during the meeting, that amount became readjusted, and not in my favor, due to some mistakes or omissions. Each time, this required a new set of paperwork to be drawn and notifications to go to other offices, ... Read More

I'd like to think that I am creative. I am fairly sure that artistically, I am. I also seem to have a head full of ideas. My problem often is, I don't know how to take those ideas and put them into action. Even so, this article in BusinessWeek gave me a little hope that perhaps in the coming years, business will seek out people like me. The Creative Economy Which companies will thrive in the coming years? Those that value ideas above ... Read More