Category Archives: Economy

Piling Onto Healthcare Costs

Posted on September 2, 2010 | Leave a comment

By your own employer, perhaps.

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UPDATE: Utter Nonsense

Posted on August 30, 2010 | 3 comments

This is not only nonsense, but a complete waste of time, effort and (wait for it) our money.

Funding a pro-Palestinian ad campaign on billboards in Israel.

UPDATE: As I said. A complete waste of time. And effort.

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We Don’t Need Dept. of Education

Posted on August 28, 2010 | Leave a comment

Because of Secretary Duncan’s Race to Waste Your Education Dollars.

The “money” line: “But grant applications are what RttT is all about, and they have made RttT the biggest waste of your education dollars ever.”

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Think Twice About Contact-Less Credit Cards

Posted on August 28, 2010 | Leave a comment

Warning:

The ease with which your credit card info (what about Real-ID?) can be stolen is upsetting.

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Visa Fee Hike Called Discriminatory

Posted on August 28, 2010 | Leave a comment

The U.S. is reviewing whether a law that increases some visa fees is compliant with World Trade Organization rules, the U.S. Department of State announced last week. President Obama signed into law on Aug. 13 a $600 million bill for increased surveillance for illegal immigrants on the U.S.-Mexican border. The cost of the new measures are to be paid from an increase in H-1B and L visa fees paid by tech workers brought into the country by companies with more than 50 staff, and in which more than 50% of the staff are on these visas. The new border security law has been criticized as discriminatory by India’s National Association of Software and Service Companies that have more than 50% of their staff in the U.S. on these visas.

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Right To Work

Posted on August 24, 2010 | Leave a comment

It brings jobs from those that tax those businesses until they can’t take it anymore.

Check it out. Is your state a Right To Work state? Is Maryland?

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What The Iraq War Cost(s) Us

Posted on August 23, 2010 | Leave a comment

According to the CBO, when comparing the Iraq War costs against our deficit – it wasn’t much.

But don’t take my word for it. Read it and scroll down to almost halfway.

It isn’t that I am justifying the Iraq war. I’m not.
However, what really stands out is the DEFICIT !!

Since I understand math, if we keep the amount of the Iraq war cost the same and shrink the deficits of 2009 and 2010 to equal that of 2008 – then those little blue boxes will be far more significant that this picture seems to give you now.

So, the lesson here is that $709 billion is not an insignificant amount of money.

But it looks that way considering how much the current administration has been (over)spending.

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Unemployment Spread

Posted on August 21, 2010 | 2 comments

Similar to a zombie movie.

But. This isn’t fiction.

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No Confidence

Posted on August 21, 2010 | Leave a comment

From Border Patrol agents AND ICE agents no less concerning the Administration on the issue of real border security.

Their point? The government will spend resources combating SB1070 rather than expend resources to effect better border patrol.

And ICE has been told to ‘prioritize‘. Yup. How about that.

I gotta say, yeah – priorities are definitely misplaced, misguided and mistaken.
On the part of our “leaders” (cough).

Apparently, there is no confidence inside Mexico either. Particularly when their own police kill their own Mayor.

All the more reason to put up a huge wall apparently.

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Faze the Nation

Posted on August 15, 2010 | Leave a comment

Who knew Tim Kaine could be so funny?

Not.

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