Category: Economics
Economic issues-taxes, freedom to do business, unemployment
No Social Security or Medicare for Me-Do I have the Courage of my Convictions?
Yes, I do. This post was written a couple of years ago, and updated today in 2015. I will be 66 in April, and I just love tossing all the junk mail telling me about everyone's very best Medicare Advantage or Medi-Gap policy. No serious illnesses, and still at my same employer after seven years. …
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Coarsening the Culture
It started with an essay in the (supposedly) high-minded publication for Wall Street Journal subscribers, WSJ Magazine. This comes out every other month in the print edition, and is a slick magazine designed to appeal to high-income readers. It is filled with ads for expensive clothing, watches, and jewelry, and features stories about people and …
Giving-It’s That Time of Year
So, why do people give? What makes giving to others a good thing? Some would say that giving is to help other people, perhaps those defined as "needy"; i.e. the purpose of giving is to improve the situation (emotional or material) of others. As you might imagine, the motivations for giving have been extensively …
Rats! I WANTED them to shut down the government!
During the tense negotiations in DC a while ago, where the D's and R's "negotiated" (scare quotes intended) a spending bill to keep the sainted government running for yet another fiscal year, I was rooting for the R's to simply say NO. I want them to shut down the government, since much of it …
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Just some thoughts on blogging…what do readers like?
I've been doing this here blog for a few years now, and I have noticed some things. Like, I seem to get new followers whenever I do a post that's not relevant to the theme of my blog (conservatism). And a goodly number of other WordPress bloggers seem to blog about their personal lives, and …
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World Turned Upside-down…Headlines after Thanksgiving
Here are some headlines found on Fox News today. Prisoner Bogus Tax Refunds The Next Housing Crisis runup (relaxed mortgage lending standards) Black Friday shooting at Chicago Nordstrom Social Security benefits for illegal immigrants? UN scolds US on record of "torture" and police brutality. Employers have incentive to hire illegal immigrants (over native-born Americans) New …
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Thanksgiving
I subscribe to the RushBabe49 Properly Grateful Theory of Life. Often throughout the year, I stop and think about how fortunate I am to live in this Greatest Nation on God's Green Earth. By the accident of birth, I had upper-middle-class parents, in one of the most beautiful parts of this country (Pacific Northwest). I …
Time for the RNC to Step up to the Plate, Boycott Mainstream Media going into 2016
The following post is on the Main Feed at Ricochet.com, by Contributor Stephen Miller. It needs to be read by EVERYONE! To Reince, et al I have wondered for at least six years why they haven't done this before. With the crap that has been going down, and been ignored by the mainstream media ("Grubergate", …
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