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Review: United States National Debt

One of the best graphical representations of the subject I have seen on the net.  In revision since 2003, Steve McGourty, has recently updated, September 21, 2008, this good work.
Graphs include, “United States National Debt and the Presidents Responsible”, “United States National Debt 1791 to Present”, “Change in Average Revenue and Spending by Administration”,  [...]

Uncle Sam’s Farm

 The price of the big bail out is going up faster than you can say “pow zoom, straight to the moon”.   Just last week they were talking about 100 billion,  a few days ago they were saying 400 billion, late yesterday, and in all the morning papers, 500 billion dollars.  Now it’s 700 billions dollars!  [...]

Republican Cronyism at it’s Finest: Senator Ted Stevens

From this August photo we see that Senator Ted Stevens has taken to wearing some type of quasi-military looking uniform and I am quite sure that is a GIANT American flag behind him.  My first thought was, “Does this guy really think this will help him?”, but then I realized the collective mental abilities [...]

GRIST FOR THE MILL, an opinion by C. Orr August 12, 2008

I don’t know about anyone else but, for me, this whole summer has felt like I’ve been inside one of those Russian novels where the characters are discussing politics and religion in such a way that even with the smattering of existentialist philosophy I’ve managed to co-opt as a means of coping with the sheer [...]

High Oil Prices, Hallelujah Brother!

For the past 50 years or so it has been economically advantageous for manufacturers to partake in some fairly wasteful ways to make their products available to the American market.  Things like buying raw lumber to ship to Asia to be made into furniture and shipped back to the US to be sold. We [...]