If you've driven by a new car dealership lately, you'll likely notice the same thing I did when I went out looking to buy a new car. The lots are barren. You're lucky to find a dealership who has more than one of the model car you're looking for, and even luckier if it happens to be the right color, with all the features you want. The recent buying frenzy caused by Cash For … [Read more...]
Pay Your Taxes If You Have Political Ambitions
Before Timothy Geithner became the Treasury Secretary, he worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF employs people from all over the world, including Americans. While working there, foreigners don't have to pay US income taxes, and in an attempt to be fair to the Americans who also work there, the IMF pays the Americans for their share of income taxes. This … [Read more...]
Obama’s Vegas Vacation
The Senate Majority leader, Harry Reid, has a fundraiser planned at Cesar's Palace on the Las Vegas Strip. He's planning on having headliners, like Bette Midler and Sheryl Crow perform at the event. Oh yea, he's also having some guy named Barack show up too. The trip to Vegas for Obama is a complete 180 from his position on "corporate excesses", back when bailout recipients … [Read more...]
Lucky Strike Museum
Remember back in the late 1990's, when the tobacco companies were sued? They were ordered to pay over $240 billion to 46 states over the course of 25 years to fund the health costs associated with smoking and chewing tobacco. According to an article on Townhall.com, roughly $80 billion has been paid out so far, and of that amount only 30% has been spent on health care … [Read more...]
Remedy for a Bad Economy
It seems these days that everyone is on the Government bailout bandwagon. Not just in the United States, but all over the world, people are crying out to their governments to bailout failing companies. What's worse is, it's happening. I question these people who say that a government bailout is the only way a troubled economy will right itself. I question why these people … [Read more...]