Showing posts with label debt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label debt. Show all posts

January 15, 2011

United States has fallen to ninth place in Economic freedom.

"Last year, I reported that the United States fell from sixth to eighth place -- behind Canada -- in the Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal's 2010 Index of Economic Freedom. Now, we've fallen further. In the just-released 2011 Index, the United States is in ninth place. That's behind Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Canada, Ireland and Denmark." -John Stossel

Cmon we can do better than this. I thought America was the leader of the free world.

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January 12, 2011

Poll shows public opposes raising debt limit ceiling

The U.S. public overwhelmingly opposes raising the country's debt limit even though failure to do so could hurt America's international standing and push up borrowing costs, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday.

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January 11, 2011

Antidote for Potomac Poison

Solutions and ideas to keep the New Congress from drinking the kool-aid that sends most in Congress on a wild spending spree each and every year avoiding the real work in getting the nations financial house in order, so that all may share in the blessings rather than the few that don't want to work for themselves.

Good Article
http://www.libertyinkjournal.com/features/antidote-for-potomac-poison

May 07, 2008

Congress looking at steel pennies and nickels

AP | Washington
Further evidence that times are tough: It now costs more than a penny to make a penny. And the cost of a nickel is more than 7½ cents.

Surging prices for copper, zinc and nickel have some in Congress trying to bring back the steel-made pennies of World War II, and maybe using steel for nickels, as well.

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April 19, 2008

Ron Paul Is Right on Peace, Liberty and Ending the U.S. Empire

On the war, Rep. Paul voted, in Oct., 2002, against the U.S. Congress delegating the power to use military force against Iraq to President George W. Bush. He said that, as soon as the Bush-Cheney Gang took office in Jan., 2001, "and that was long before 9/11," they were looking to bring about "regime change" in Iraq. He also believes that the "Israeli government and the Neocons want the U.S. to attack Iran."

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April 17, 2008

Welfare for the Rich

We all complain about poor people who use government welfare, we rarely complain about foreign welfare, now we have to deal with our unlawful government giving handouts to the rich.

Economy -

Survival of the Richest
by Robert Kiyosaki

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April 15, 2008

Ron Paul Sees Bailout Writing on the Wall

"They cannot have all these bailouts—whether it's bailing out homeowners, or mortgage companies, or banks. If they do it by just the creation of new credit, eventually they destroy the dollar. So I think we are going to face something much greater than the crisis we faced in 1979 and 1980, when we needed 21 percent interest rates in order to rescue the dollar. I think conditions are much worse [today]."


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April 14, 2008

Riots, instability spread as food prices skyrocket

Riots from Haiti to Bangladesh to Egypt over the soaring costs of basic foods have brought the issue to a boiling point and catapulted it to the forefront of the world's attention,...
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Inflation, weak US energy policies and weak US Dollar drives food cost up, creating ripples around the world for those who deal in dollars.
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