Just this afternoon I experienced a classic fundamental of economics: Consumption.
I had lunch at a pizza buffet. All the pizza and soda I could consume for the low low price of eight dollars American. of course I had to render to Caesar, so it REALLY was about $8.50, but I digress.
At some point I pushed away from the table satisfied; I was fat dumb and happy. Full.
Posted in Economics, Health Care, Politics: National
Tagged Abuse of Power, Barack Obama, Democrat, Leftist, North Carolina Politics, Politics, Socialism
Often I get the feeling that something just ain’t right.
You Know What This IS
You see it, hear it and then someone even tells ya about it. And you’re just like….”um, yeah….nah. That, right there, is horseshit.”
And ya call ’em on it.
And ya got nothin’ right? ‘Cause really, the only thing ya got is your gut.
Well, now, we got somethin’ for ya….
Posted in Economy, Liberty, Politics: National
Tagged Abuse of Power, Leftist, Politics
Size Baby! Because SIZE matters!
And American’s love size. And that’s all there is to it.
So, when given the option between savin’ the environment and drivin’ big cars, we choose big cars.
Always.
Posted in Economics, Energy, Politics: National
Tagged Barack Obama, Leftist, Politics, SUV
Many many people are becoming more and more upset with our President. People are beginning to see him in action and aren’t liking what they see. They feel betrayed and disillusioned.
And this is not Obama’s fault.
Posted in Politics: National, Race
Tagged Barack Obama, Leftist, Politics, Thomas Sowell
Ugh. Ugly.
With very few exceptions, the racism our in the early stages of our nation have been our worst example of Liberty. It’s horrible and without defense.
But are we reaching new lows?
Posted in Politics: National, Race
Tagged Abuse of Power, NAACP, Politics, Shirley Sherrod
Then why would you fund your worst performing school? 
Consider a business owner with 3-4-5 stores. Every year, she evaluates her business in an effort to determine which store is doing well and which is under performing. I can see her ranking her stores, best to worst.
Now imagine if she were to take that list, identify the worst performing store and reward its manager with a raise.
That’s what we do with our public schools.
North Carolina Governor Bev Purdue recently Tweeted on a blog entry regarding North Carolina High Speed rail:
Today, NCDOT’s Rail Division officially received the first $20.3 million of the $545 million allocated to our state for high-speed rail improvements under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. North Carolina was granted the sixth highest award to any state as part of President Obama’s high-speed rail plan, demonstrating the growing strength of our rail program.
Jeez. Here we go…
Posted in Politics: North Carolina, Transportation
Tagged High Speed Rail, Leftist, North Carolina, North Carolina Politics, Politics, Stimulus
I’m torn, I admit it.
On one hand I desperately want to create a system that allows for healthy legal immigration easily and quickly. If a citizen of Mexico or Japan wants to make her way to America; let her. And be quick about it.
Yet I also acknowledge that current failure to enforce residence status creates incentives and burdens; we need to enforce current law.
The solution seems simple: Pass reform that extends the right of “free exchange”. That is, to negotiate freely the exchange of labor and compensation.
But selling one’s labor or participation in commerce are natural rights to which happenstance of birth location should be irrelevant. It should mean no more to these rights that someone is born today north or south of the Rio Grande river than it meant to our founding fathers that someone was born with or without a hereditary title.
I think everyone sees this as common sense.
The problem is going to come down to one simple roadblock. What do we do with the 11-12 million people who are here illegally today.
My solution is to give them legal resident status, apply for citizenship just like everybody else and move on; acknowledge that we had an imperfect system that created a wrinkle we don’t wanna see repeated.
It’s time. We need immigration reform.
I resonate with getting and keeping things safe; I do.
But I wonder if everyone does.
RALEIGH — About 85 people held hands on a footbridge over Lake Johnson on Saturday afternoon to lament the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and to urge the transition to cleaner forms of energy.
What does that even mean? This “transition to cleaner forms of energy.”
Who decides what “cleaner” means, and how do you measure it?
And then, who measures the damage done by transitioning OFF of oil? Who’s gonna be in charge of that?
The spill in the gulf is a catastrophe; it’s horrible.
But it doesn’t mean oil is over.
