Archive for March, 2009
Budget Observations From Karl Rove
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009I follow Karl Rove on Twitter, and he follows me as well. (Sorry, I couldn’t contain myself and had to let everyone know that.) He Twittered about an upload on his website, http://www.rove.com, regarding his Observations from a visit with a smart budget expert, 3/20/09. Below are some excerpts from that document: SPENDING Federal spending, [...]
New Reserve Currency; China Calls for One
Monday, March 23rd, 2009Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People’s Bank of China has written an essay which calls for the creation of a new global currency to replace the US dollar as the international reserve currency and to be controlled by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The new reserve currency would be “disconnected from individual nations and [...]
The President Laughs At Financial Situation
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009Maybe I’m being a bit of a nitpicker with this, but it really bothers me that while talking about the need for taxpayers to bail out financial firms and the auto industry, President Obama said, with a laugh: I just want to say that the only thing less popular than putting money into banks is [...]
President Obama-Budget Must Cut Defict, Reform Health Care, And More
Saturday, March 21st, 2009Even though our economy seems to be on a downhill slide with banks failing or having to be bailed out to avoid failure, corporations that were once considered the safest of all investments on the verge of bankruptcy, unemployment at 9%, and a general overall lack of confidence in the situation by the American people, [...]
Obama/Biden Top 10 Gaffes
Friday, March 20th, 2009I found a blog about Obama’s and Biden’s top 10 verbal gaffes on the UK’s Telegraph website. The URL for the blog is: Top 10 Gaffes by Barack Obama and Joe Biden. While the top 10 list was interesting, the most interesting part was one of the comments by someone identifying himself as Reaganite Republican [...]

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