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    • Ramifications of Fannie, Freddie On The U.S. Budget [Housing Tracker] [view article]
      I hate to see the USA in this mess, but in my personal budget, if suddenly I have expenses I can't handle, I start looking for things to cut and ways to earn more money. It might be a good time to seriously curtail our international spending in places like Iraq and the UN, etc, etc. Take care of our personal needs first. You can't help others if you've been personally shot in the head. Sep 11 10:13 AM
    • Can Gold Be Suppressed Indefinitely? [view article]
      "...we have a situation where the government, at an ever increasingly transparent level, seeks to enrich itself at the cost of its citizenry."

      So true.       Sep 11 10:01 AM
    • Can the US Government Afford Future Bailouts? [view article]
      when will we start getting foreign aid? Sep 10 11:24 AM
    • Obama, McCain and Offshore Drilling [view article]
      Steve Ballmer: Agree 100%. The only caveat is that so will McCain. So would Hillary. So would Romney. So would Huckaby. So will most any politician except perhaps Paul. The difference between McCain and Obama is, as stated in the article, how much government intervention, (i.e. heavy socialism), that Obama wants to use. "Euro-economics&q... is a bad direction for any country to go in and that's the "change" Obama speaks of. Redistribution of wealth is socialism. We've allowed our government to increasingly go in that direction. So, the "change" O tries to fob off on us is really more of the same, just increased in intensity. Sep 10 09:12 AM
    • Crisis In Progress: Loan Spreads Widening Further [Housing Tracker] [view article]
      I used to read these posts because the titles interested me, now I look for quality submitter's names like yours. Thanks. Aug 29 08:30 AM
    • The Obama Plan: We Can't Entitle Our Way Out of Paying Taxes [view article]
      Agree 100% with DougM, The Saved Sailor, Whidbey and Manning.
      Think Kelly Lieberman is to think that corporations pay ANY taxes. They're just turned through to the purchasing public - an indirect tax on the buyer.
      Aug 25 11:21 AM
    • Obama's Economic Policy and Reagonomics [view article]
      If you want change go with Obama. What that change is, who knows...As C. S. Lewis said, " Progress means not just changing, but changing for the better." I prefer not to change except to revert backwards to remove much of the over-taxation and over-spending and over-meddling our government does and has done.
      If you want to leep spending more than we have, fighting wars in countries we shouldn't be in at all, or trying very hard not to say anything or do anything that might upset your voters, then go with McCain.
      If liberalism means to keep going in the direction we're going, (i.e. changing and charging the people more and more to do it), then I'm a conservative. If conservatism means staying the course we're currently on, then I'm liberal.
      Why didn't we vote for Romney or Paul instead of these two wishy-washy say and do nothing candidates?       Aug 21 10:26 AM
    • Obama vs. McCain on Fiscal Responsibility [view article]
      Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social

      Security (FICA) Program. He promised:

      1.) That participation in the Program would be

      completely voluntary.

      2.) That the participants would only have to pay

      1% of the first $1,400 of their annual

      incomes into the Program,

      3.) That the money the participants elected to put

      into the Program would be deductible from

      their income for tax purposes each year,

      4.) That the money the participants put into the

      Independent 'Trust Fund' rather than into the

      General Operating Fund, and therefore, would

      only be used to fund the Social Security

      Retirement Program, and no other

      government program, and,

      5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees

      would never be taxed as income.

      Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are

      now receiving a Social Security check every month --

      and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of

      the money we paid to the federal government to 'put

      away', you may be interested in the following:

      ----------------------...

      Q: Which political party took Social Security from the

      Independent 'Trust Fund' and put it in to the

      General Fund so that Congress could spend it?

      A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the Democratically-

      controlled House and Senate.

      ----------------------...

      Q: Which political party eliminated the income tax

      deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?

      A: The Democratic Party.

      ----------------------...

      Q: Which political party started taxing Social

      Security annuities?

      A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the

      'tie-breaking' deciding vote as President of the

      Senate, while he was Vice President of the U.S.

      ----------------------...

      Q: Which political party decided to start giving

      annuity payments to immigrants?

      AND MY FAVORITE:

      A: That's right!

      Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party.

      Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65,

      they began to receive Social Security payments! The

      Democratic Party gave these payments to them

      even though they never paid a dime into it!

      'A government big enough to give you everything you want,

      is strong enough to take everything you have.'

      -Thomas Jeff erson
      Aug 19 08:57 AM
    • Four Reasons We Can't Call It a Recession - Yet [view article]
      Uncle Sam might say:
      "Its hard to feel good about things as they stand right now but on the other hand I've experienced much worse. So, I guess I not depressed, just down a bit. I'll be better soon. Just give me some time..."       Aug 16 10:51 AM
    • A Million Bucks Ain't What It Used to Be [view article]
      Don't blame congress folks, its us. We're to blame. Aug 13 02:01 PM
    • Please, Mr. Greenspan, Shut Up [view article]
      Greenspan and our current economic woes are a good reason that the Fed should never have been created. Cuba is a perfect example of how it will eventually reduce the populace to poverty. It just doesn't work. Aug 09 08:31 AM
    • Were the Tax Rebates a Bust? [view article]
      Tie the income tax to the S&P 500! That would change things a bit. Might be interesting! Aug 07 11:18 AM
    • Is This a Recession? Wrong Question. [view article]
      I agree, who cares if it official? We're hurting and somebody somewhere is making a ton of money from high energy prices. Something is way off here. Ten years ago the liberal congress decided to keep us from producing the oil and gas we now need. I keep asking myself what did they gain by that stance? Money had to be involved and it had to be BIG. Aug 04 08:05 AM
    • Schwarzenegger Orders State Workers Cut to Minimum Wage [view article]
      In the end its the little and middle that ends up paying for it all. Aug 01 09:27 AM
    • Why the 2008 Housing Relief Bill is No Relief [view article]
      To Destroyed by divorce: Why should we be responsible to bail you out of a bad marriage? It's sad what happened to you but it's "for richer or poorer, sickness or health" and it shouldn't be up to me to pay for you and your husband's mistakes. Jul 29 03:50 PM
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