Posts Tagged "politics":

Take a closer look at the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Bill

RMDunne Tuesday, August 17, 2010

This multi-part series was written By Jeff Harding Aug 12, 2010 10:30 am and can be found on Minyanville

Understand the changes happening around us. Don't wait untill the results are embeded and unrecoverable. We need to make choices for our future. We need to make educated decisions and not be told what to think.

"The new financial overhaul bill is the greatest government tak...

Wow, this is an extreme view... I hope.

RMDunne Saturday, July 31, 2010

Will Washington's Failures Lead To Second American Revolution?

Getting their Bell rung...

RMDunne Friday, July 23, 2010

Bell, California is a town of nearly 37,000 good souls located in Los Angeles County. The town is very small--2 1/2 square miles which qualifies it as one of the ten smallest cities in the United States. According to what I have read, its a pretty hard scrabble place--the town is so poor it runs its own food pantry and a quarter of its citizens are below the official poverty level. But the improvished circumstances of the town and its residents haven't stopped its top elected officials from gorging at the public trough.

According to the July 20, 2010 Los Angeles Times and o...

Invisible Hand still at it?

RMDunne Thursday, May 06, 2010
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Lean to the left... more. No, much more...

RMDunne Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Feature Will 2010 Be Another 1994? By Grover Norquist from the March 2010 issue Election day, November 2, 2010, will either confirm the Democratic triumphs of 2006 and 2008, ushering in a renewed period of Democratic dominance and jerking America left as happened in the 1930s and 1960s, or it will echo the 1994 rejection of the leftward drift of united Democratic government under Clinton. When Herbert Hoover was elected in 1928, there were Republican majorities in both the Senate (48-46) and the H...

Rick Santelli

RMDunne Monday, March 22, 2010

Don't Blame China

RMDunne Monday, March 22, 2010

Support Redistricting Reform

RMDunne Monday, March 15, 2010

The core of the core of the problem...

RMDunne Thursday, January 21, 2010
The Fall of the House of Kennedy The battle over who defines the work and institutions that make a nation thrive and grow. By DANIEL HENNINGER

No way out for Japan

RMDunne Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Michelle Rhee

RMDunne Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Rhee: Education Mover and Shaker

RMDunne Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Ronald Reagan Classic

RMDunne Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Getting a bit defensive over climategate...

RMDunne Friday, December 11, 2009

Spending someone elses money on someone else

RMDunne Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Milton Friedman: “There are four ways in which you can spend money. You can spend your own money on yourself. When you do that, why then you really watch out what you’re doing, and you try to get the most for your money. Then you can spend your own money on somebody else. For example, I buy a birthday present for someone. Well, then I’m not so careful about the content of the present, but I’m very careful about the cost. Then, I can spend somebody else’s money on myself. And if I spend somebody else’s money on myself, then I’m sure going to have a good lunch! Finally, I...

Under the Fort Hood

RMDunne Tuesday, November 10, 2009
NYT: Fort Hood suspect tracked before shooting, exchanges with radical cleric detected but probe was dropped, sources say By David Johnston and Scott Shane The New York Times updated 6:52 p.m. CT, Mon., Nov . 9, 2009

Maxine on entitlements

RMDunne Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Leave it to Maxine to come up with a solution... I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it with seed.. What a beauty of a bird feeder it was, as I filled it lovingly with seed. Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food. But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table, and next to the barbecue. Then came the poop. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs, the table, everywhere! Then some of the birds turned mean. They would dive bomb me a...

Free Wirelss Phone and Service

RMDunne Wednesday, October 28, 2009

SafeLink Wireless is a government supported program that provides a free cell phone and airtime each month for income-eligible customers.

Global Warming?

RMDunne Monday, October 19, 2009

Healthcare Debate

RMDunne Thursday, October 15, 2009

No Go 2016, damn!

RMDunne Friday, October 02, 2009

Obama family: Out of touch

RMDunne Thursday, October 01, 2009

Tax System explained in Beer

RMDunne Thursday, October 01, 2009
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes,it would go something like this: The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay $1. The sixth would pay $3. The seventh would pay $7. The eighth would pay $12. The ninth would pay $18. The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59. So, that's what they decided to do.The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. 'Since you are all suc...

545 vs. 300,000,000

RMDunne Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Charley Reese has been a journalist for 49 years. 545 PEOPLE By Charlie Reese Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.. Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits? Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes? You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Re...

We The People Stimulus Package

RMDunne Friday, March 27, 2009

Porkulus

RMDunne Friday, March 06, 2009

Sept 08 - Run on the Banks

RMDunne Tuesday, February 10, 2009

At 2 minutes, 20 seconds into this C-Span video clip, Rep. Paul Kanjorski of Pennsylvania explains how the Federal Reserve told Congress members about a "tremendous draw-down of money market accounts in the United States, to the tune of $550 billion dollars." According to Kanjorski, this electronic transfer occured over the period of an hour or two.

 

Perfect Storm by Thomas Sowell

RMDunne Monday, November 03, 2008
Some elections are routine, some are important and some are historic. If Senator John McCain wins this election, it will probably go down in history as routine. But if Senator Barack Obama wins, it is more likely to be historic-- and catastrophic. Once the election is over, the glittering generalities of rhetoric and style will mean nothing. Everything will depend on performance in facing huge challenges, domestic and foreign. Performance is where Barack Obama has nothing to show for his political career, either in Illinois or in Washington. Policies that he proposes under the ba...

Quote of the week: Reagan

RMDunne Monday, July 07, 2008

Ok... a few of my favorite quotes from Ronald Reagan.

'Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.'
- Ronald Reagan
'The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
- Ronald Reagan
'It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.'
- Ronald Reagan
'Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phr...

War vs Entitlements

RMDunne Friday, May 30, 2008
You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Boy am I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us. I now find that to be RIDICULOUS. I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts. - $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments. Verify at "http://tinyurl.com/zob77":http://tinyurl.com/zob77 ...

Screw the old people

RMDunne Wednesday, May 14, 2008
There is an abundant supply of news articles discussing the problems with Medicare. Specifically, the quality of care our elders are receiving using the system. I hate to admit it, but I really didn't care that much. I was so far removed from the problem that I never looked at the issues beyond the headlines. So, a couple years ago my grandfather was having medical problems and needed emergency care. Unfortunately, the benefits that we had taken for granted throughout the years had recently changed. GM had just slashed benefits for it's retirees and the current insurance coverage was ver...

Quote of the week: 5/13/2008

RMDunne Tuesday, May 13, 2008
"My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it." Barack Obama
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