I told my wife on Friday or was it Saturday okay, today, that I think I’m turning into a curmudgeony old man. I forget stuff, get irritated at others when I do.
I DON’T like it when people drive on my grass [i’m still cool with kids, so I guess I’m not wholly there yet] and I like my driveway leaf free.
And I’m noticing that service ain’t what it used to be.
Why chickens aren’t endangered or extinct?
I mean, we EAT ’em for gawd’s sake!
The reason why chickens aren’t extinct and buffalo or nearly extinct is that people own chickens.
Weird.
Didja know that politicians have been lying to us for years now?!?
Serious.
What they call one thing you and I would call another.
And because they use words differently than the rest of us, they have been able to shape how we think about the things they are talking about.
Apparently 50% of Americans could not get their hands on $2000 to deal with an emergency in 30 days. This includes money they’re saved, or could borrow through a credit card, from another financial institution, or from friends or family. And it isn’t just poor people. IIRC 30% of people making between $100k and $125k couldn’t come up with two grand in a month.
Huh?
30% of people making between 100k and 125k couldn’t come up with 2 grand in 30 days for an emergency?
I don’t care WHAT color you are, red elephant or blue donkey. The fact that America is that frackin’ broke is why we are in trouble.
The Recession hit. And it hit hard.
And now that it’s over, many people, economists and politicians, are wondering when the jobs are going to come back.
Heck, look at the recent election for proof that current conditions are brutal. Don’t think that the surviving Democrats aren’t mindful of where we are and where we’re going.
And the current dilemma? Unemployment benefits are going to expire for many folks pretty soon.
Posted in Economics, Economy, Politics: International, Politics: National
Tagged Denmark, Liberal, Paul Krugman, Recession, Unemployment
Let’s get one thing straight.
We ALL agree that we ALL should pay SOME tax.
The government needs money to pay for things that governments do.
We can disagree about what a government should do and how much it costs that government to do it, but serious, we have to pay some form of tax.
That said, what we tax and how much we tax is a whole conversation that needs to be had.
Posted in Economics, Politics: National
Tagged Barack Obama, Democrat, Economy, Hauser's Law, Politics, Taxes
There’s an old saw that says:
There’s a reason it’s called “Risk Taking”. If there wasn’t, they’d call it “Sure Thing Taking”.
The same holds true regarding decisions of fiscal responsibility.
Posted in Economics, Politics: North Carolina
Tagged North Carolina, North Carolina Politics, Politics, Republican
More good things happen. And they happen all over the world.
See, the mistake that the Left makes regarding job creation is that it’s a zero sum game.
I.E. Liberals think that if you add a job in China you are subtracting a job in America.
In fact, the opposite is true.
The market. She’s great.
When left alone, AND when “regulated” to the point that contracts are enforced, private property rights are recognized, will grow.
Always.
Never not.
So when folks were looking at the health care system and saw a bloody mess, they should have stepped back and said:
“Let it be”.
There is an interesting dynamic occurring as we come out of the recession.
And the lesson should be used to illustrate how we shape our economic policies going forward.
The story is the story of two recoveries:
1. The recovery for native-born workers.
2. The recovery for foreign-born workers.
