The California Way?

For decades now the carnard has been that so goes California so goes the nation.  It has allegedly been the trend setter for everything from social mores to economic development and political leanings.  There has certainly been some truth to that assertion.  Those Hollywood glitz hounds do continue to lead the way in style and [...]

The Tea Bag and Tax Revolts

Ever since Rick Santelli had his rant on the Chicago Board of Trade floor there has been a slowly growing groundswell of movement to put his call to arms in action.  You might recall how he voiced great displeasure specifically with the idea of bailing out someone’s lifestyle by reworking their mortgage for them with Federal [...]

Get rich with taxes!

Let me get this straight.  The Government is going to spend lots of money and that is going to create wealth for all of us.   They plan on spending trillions in the next year or so.  That is a lot of potential wealth creation.   Let’s do some math on that one.  Take your own estimate [...]

Taxes down the ages

Discussion and disputes over taxes are nothing new under the sun.   From biblical times to now there has always been friction between governments and the people subject to that particular government over how taxes are to be paid, who  has to pay them and what form that taxation will take.     In very ancient times the [...]

Economic quandries or quackeries

There is much discussion about our economy and the future direction for it and for the green movement.  It occurs to me that there are some overlooked bumps in the road that no one is discussing however.   Logical thought can ponder some near term and long term consequences of planned and proposed action from the [...]

Presidential Honeymoon or Nightmare on Elm Street

The pundits are rife with comments these days about rallying around the new President-Elect and pulling for him to be successful.  A nice sentiment in the abstract but application might be harder to achieve.   Usually there is disagreement on one or two major issues with any new President but we basically felt they were steering the ship [...]

Welfare or charity?

The topic of welfare has risen to the fore again as well it should with one of the tax proposals from one of our candidates for President.   If we as a people believe our taxes should be used to give money directly to one particular group selected by politicians then I suppose we have no [...]

Thoughts on Bailout and election

I still don’t understand why they folks in Washington don’t go straight to the heart of the matter which is houses and mortgages.  They are helping out all the wrong people.   I don’t care a tinker’s toot about the companies or individuals who bought those crazy bundled “securities” backed by mortgages.   It is not the [...]

Adages for Politicians to heed

Some of the old bromides have real use even in our sophisticated world.   After all they became popular and endured over the ages because there was some deep seated truth to the comment, otherwise they would have wilted on the vine of time.  Let’s look at a few of those sayings that have endured and [...]

Election of the Ages and Economic reality

You will hear lots more rhetoric in the next couple of months by politicians of all stripes and parties telling you about how important this election is to the future of the Nation.   Phrases like this is a turning point and defining moment will be tossed out.   You will be told that it is the [...]