Economy & Taxes

  I would like to know why the government is paying off farmers and dairies to NOT produce crops, etc..  Many of us are low income & cannot afford the high prices and, often times, poor quality of fresh produce sold in our stores.Read more

The next time you hear a politician use theword 'billion' in a casual manner, think about

whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of

putting that figure into some perspective inone of it's releases. A.A billion seconds ago it was 1959.Read more

As of 11/16/2009

Debt held by the public: 7,632,033,766,420.46

Intragovernmental holdings: 4,399,265,419,869.61

Total public debt outstanding: 12,031,299,186,290.07

And now Obama is concerned about the debt.....he is a political monster.

I just don' tget it.  He says one thing, and yet his actions say something completly different.  And yet the public believes him, even cheers for him.  Now Obama is talking about deficit reduction and the need to be careful about long term spending.  But his policies and his actions are the complete opposite.  What scares me is that people are gonna believe his words buRead more

Looks like congress is gonna give the president permission to spend more money. One sentence in this article really caught by eye:

"....when your cash burn rate averages more than $100 billion a month.”

I wonder why Obama didn't do a "stress test" on the US goverment when he did it on all the banks????? 

Saw a bunch of these shirts at the protest at the capital yesterday. Just thought id share the website address. It's www.obamahypeshirt.com. I just ordered a couple to wear to the we the people rally next year.

For the life of me I can't figure out what this line means, "If I give you a raise, it is going to save a portion of your job," HHS spokesman Luis Rosero said.  HUH?!

President Barack Obama's economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan. Trouble is, only 508 people work there.Read more

Here is a pretty good listing of some wasteful (and rather large) expenditures of stimulus bucks.  Please chime in with an additional ones.  I am especially interested to know who in Chicago received the 1 million dollars....an Obama groupie maybe??Read more

You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.Read more

OLD VERSION

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away...

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.Read more