Wanna know the only way to establish a monopoly?
Government regulations.
And I find it funny that the very same people who clamor when companies like Microsoft or Intel have a “strangle hold” on the market are the very same one who demand, DEMAND I tell you, that the government regulate a monopoly for something that they think needs regulating.
Again with politicians making up language that fits their needs.
I once had an English teacher in high school. We were reading “The Merchant of Venice”. In the story, Shylock loses his estate due to a quirk of law. On one of our tests, the English teachers asks the True or False question:
Shylock lost half of his estate due to his legal dealings with Antonio.
I answered, “False”. After all, he lost the whole of the estate.
She marked it wrong, saying that if he lost ALL of his estate, certainly he lost half of it as well.
Words have meanings.
Posted in Economy, Politics: National, Politics: North Carolina, Senate
Tagged Democrat, Kay Hagan, North Carolina, North Carolina Politics, Taxes
…about 8ft tall. Not too much shorter, no need for a short freshly cut pine tree. And certainly not much bigger; simple could not USE a big freshly cut pine tree.
Oh yeah, and I want it delivered to my house. Maybe-maybe not. But at the very least, it has to be dropped off for me to pick up no further than 3 tenths of a mile from where I live.
And when I say freshly cut, I mean literally, this sucker was in the ground 36 hours ago. MAX!
Sounds silly doesn’t it?
Posted in Economics, Politics: National, Politics: North Carolina
Tagged Leftist, North Carolina, Politics, Socialism, Taxes
So, lemme get this straight.
We’re in debt. All of us. And by a TON.
So we have to make cuts. A LOT of ’em.
Tough decisions to be sure.
Or is it?
Posted in Economy, Education, Politics: North Carolina
As temperatures and humidity dropped this fall, parents in Johnston County learned about an unusual policy change in the schools.
Students can no longer bring lip balm to school without a note.
And why would the school do something like this?
Schools spokeswoman Terri Sessoms said the rule is in place to prevent the spread of germs when children share the sticks.
Now look, the schools should try to increase the health of—the schools. That is, the food they cook, the water they offer and the common areas they provide.
Saying that kids can’t bring lip balm?
Stupid.
Posted in Education, Politics: North Carolina, States Behaving Badly
Tagged North Carolina
They do this all the time.
When budget cuts come, and they almost always do come, people make it sound like the whole frackin’ world is about to end.
As if ALL of us don’t, every single day, make budget decisions of our own in our private lives.
But jeepers, and I mean JEEPERS, why oh why do they report it like it’s a surprise?
It’s heating up. And something has to be done.
We need strong leadership on the issue and we need it now.
Sadly, Obama isn’t gonna be the guy to do it.
1. He simply doesn’t know HOW to lead. Which, of course, has been my main complaint all along.
2. He doesn’t WANNA lead right now because it’ll interfere with his election prospects.
So, it’s left to the states and the towns.
And THIS is what you get when that happens:
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
Gallop has unemployment at 10.0% in October. Further, they have underemployment at 18.4%.
While shopping the other day, I had to push a sandwich board out of my way.
This is what it said:
There are 4 distinct departments hiring for management positions.
If anyone claims that there are no jobs out there, they are ignoring jobs that they don’t want.
Posted in Economy, Politics: National, Politics: North Carolina
Tagged Recession, Unemployment
We face a critical time as we get closer to the election this November. We simply can not continue with the same processes and methods of doing business.
For right or for wrong, the decisions we’ve made to get us to this point are not going to bring our problems under control. It’s clear that that we need a change, and we need it right now.
B.J. Lawson represents that opportunity. His top 3 priorities are:
HEALTH CARE:
The answer to our health care problems does not come from Washington. It comes from eliminating the middlemen who stand between patients and providers, freeing up the market for catastrophic health care insurance and health care savings accounts, and giving health care freedom back to providers and patients.
Finally, the key to fixing health care is fixing primary care. Our medical “safety net” already spends more than enough money to purchase high quality primary care for every American. We’re just wasting most of that money in unnecessary administrative overhead.
TAXES
I will stand against bailouts and corporate welfare, and in defense of businesses that succeed by serving their customers instead of paying their lobbyists.
As your Congressman, I will renew the Bush tax cuts, oppose global taxation schemes like Cap and Trade or “carbon taxes”, fight for targeted spending cuts to reduce bloated bureaucracy, and embrace a foreign policy we can afford.
SIZE OF GOVERNMENT
As your Congressman, I will push for solutions to these economic issues that empower local economies, not the federal government. I will pursue solutions that embrace transparency and free markets, while rejecting bailouts that favor the politically connected and too big to fail.
Choice is simple.