Monthly Archives: June 2011
$20.2 Billion/Year for Air Conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan, But Poor US Kids Get Less Food Aid
When the US spends $20.2 billion a year on a convenience for troops at military bases in the far flung corners of the world but Republicans cut $868 million or 13% of the entire program from food supplement programs from … Continue reading
Posted in Fiscal Policy, Foreign Affairs, Government, The Wars
Tagged Afghanistan, bad decisions, defense spending, inequality, Iraq
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Growth Keeps Disappointing Because?
The central bank released new economic projections that showed weaker growth in both 2011 and 2012 than had been forecast just two months ago. Despite the slowdown, the Fed said it will end a program of buying vast sums of … Continue reading
Posted in economy, Random Thoughts
Tagged American decline, American inequality, Federal Reserve
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Do Nothing About the Budget!
EDIT: Yikes, read this wrong! Really wrong! I am ashamed. Italics are additions If Congress implements existing law, there is no budget crisis budget deficits will be much smaller than anticipated. The US budget will do a lot of the … Continue reading
Breaking: Illegal Immigrants Contribute to Farming – Thur Helpin Our Furms!
Yeah, this was a bad business policy. Georgia’s HR 87, enacting strong measures against illegal immigration, has done its job. Less illegals are now picking crops. Victory for everybody! Now, Georgia’s farms – the state’s largest industry – are 11,000 … Continue reading
The Bottom 90% Have Little Stake Wall Street
As shown below, the Bottom 90% of the country (can you even believe we have to use the term the Bottom 90%) doesn’t own a large percentage of financial products, so gains on Wall Street do not directly benefit a … Continue reading
Posted in economy, Uncategorized, WTF
Tagged class warfare whether you like it or not, middle class squeeze
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Five More Reasons the Modern Republican Party Deserves Annihilation
The Republicans just passed a terrible food and farm spending bill in committee. Yet another example of why the modern Republican Party deserves annihilation – I think that’s going to start being a regular feature. In one bill: House Republicans … Continue reading
The Contradictory Switch From Budget Busting Tax Cuts to Spending Cuts to Save the Budget Still Boggles
Sometimes I think President Obama likes to have his cake and eat it too. When President Obama used Republican support to extend the Bush tax cuts for another two years back in December, it made sense if you understand and … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Random Thoughts
Tagged 2012 election, horribleness, keynes, republicans
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Day 6: Desert Tortoises Still Costing Us Money, Oh And Extending Bush’sTax Cuts and Foreign Wars, But Really – Tortoises!
Six days after Biden’s tough talk about shutting down deserttortoise.gov for its extravagant cost, THE SITE STILL EXISTS. It has now cost the US taxpayer an unnecessary $4! (Yeah it’s renewed on a monthly basis so it may have not … Continue reading
Posted in Fiscal Policy
Tagged Bush tax cuts, conservation, Joe Biden, silly grandstanding
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US Women Are Dying Younger Than Women in Panama and Vietnam
We seem intent on destroying ourselves. In 737 U.S. counties out of more than 3,000, life expectancies for women declined between 1997 and 2007. For life expectancy to decline in a developed nation is rare. Setbacks on this scale have … Continue reading
Chuck Schumer Trying to Change Patent System to Please Banks, Committing Falacious Special Pleading
The banks have demanded a change to the patent system, and Senator Chuck Schumer has moved to please his constituents. DataTreasury, a small business run by Claudio Ballard, owns the patent for software that digitizes checks in an end-to-end process. … Continue reading
Posted in Congress, Politics, Wall Street
Tagged Banks, legislation, logical fallacy, patent
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