Posted on 15 April 2009. Tags: Alan Bersin, anti-tax protests, attorney, bad economy, bailouts, banking, barack obama, Ben Bernanke, Big Brother, big government, Bill of Rights, Border Czar, bottoming, bureaucrats, capitalism, Chairman, collateral, communism, community organizer, competition, congress, Congresswoman, conservatives, Constitution, Consumer Price Index, consumer prices, core inflation, CPI, debt, deflation, DHS, discontent, domestic communications, domestic spying, e-mail, emergency programs, falling prices, Fed, federal power, federal reserve, financial firms, free market, freedom, governor, Health Care, health insurance, Home Security, illegal immigrants, insurance industry, intelligence assessment, intelligence officials, intercept, lack of oversight, legal authority, legal limits, liberals, liberty, limited government, low income households, messages, Mexican border, military veterans, monetary policy, money supply, monsrous, Nancy-Ann DeParle, National Security Agency, nationwide, negative tax liability, NSA, Obama administration, organized, phone calls, press conferences, private, private enterprise, private insurer, protesters, put lipstick on Socialism, recession is slowing, recession nearing an end, recruiting tool, redistribution programs, Rick Perry, right-wing extremists, rising prices, Rob Viglione, secrecy, simplify tax code, socialism, socialized medicine, spying, state sovereignty, states rights, stimulus bill, tax burden, tax liability, Tax Policy Center, tax returns, taxpayers, Tea Party, tenth amendment, Texas, universal health care, wealth redistribution
Intelligence officials say NSA exceeding legal limits on domestic spying-intercepting private e-mails and phone calls, 43% of Americans pay no taxes or actually receive money from government (i.e. receive your money!), consumer prices mixed, nationwide anti-tax protests blast bailouts and big government, Obama vows to simplify the tax code, America has its first “Border Czar,” White House pushes for new government health insurance, Federal Reserve actually considers telling the public what it’s doing, central bank claims recession may be ending soon, Homeland Security labels returning war vets as “right-wing terrorists,” and Texas governor rallies tea partiers with states’ rights agenda… Continue Reading
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Posted on 03 April 2009. Tags: accountability, Ahmad Tanveer, AIG, alternative economic data, america, American International Group, bail out the people, barack obama, Ben Bernanke, Big Brother, big businesses, bipartisanship, BLS, bonds, bonuses, bottomless pit, budge deficit, budget plan, Bureau of Labor Statistis, bureaucratic, capitalism must end, cato institute, chanting and drumming, collectivism, concentration camps, congress, debt, democrats, Department of Homeland Security, depression, detain immigrants, detention centers, developing world, development, development economics, DHS, economic systems, Economics, Economists' Adventures and misadventures in the tropics, employment obligations, end of American Empire, fair trade, Fannie Mae, fascism, federal reserve, financial regulations, fiscal year, FNM, FRE, Fredd Mac, free enterprise, free trade, G20, Georgia, global New Deal, Global Socialism, globalization, Goldman Sachs, Gordon Brown, Group of 20, harassed by government, Harry Reid, House of Representatives, Hugo Chavez, IMF, immigrant deaths, immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ineffective, inherited mistakes, insurance, international aid organizations, International Monetary Fund, London, mortgage giants, mortgage market, Nancy Pelosi, new york protest, New York University, New Yorker, NYU, Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, Pakistani, Pax Americana, Politics, poor countries, President Obama, prisons, protectionism, quadrillion, real unemployment, recession, republicans, retention bonuses, Rob Viglione, Russia, secondary market, Senate, ShadowStats, socialism, spending bill, statistics, stimulus spending, summit, The Elusive Quest for Growth, The White Man's Burden, third world, Tim Geithner, trade credits, treasuries, trillion, troop withdrawals, unemployment, united states, unprecedented spending, utopia, Utopian aid plans, Venezuela, wasteful, why doesn't aid work, Why the West's Efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good, William Easterly, World Bank, world leaders
Government detention camps cover up deaths-does America have a human rights problem? Congress passes unprecedented $3.6 trillion budget with $1.2 trillion deficit, official unemployment rates his 8.5%-some economists claiming they are really upwards of 20%, government mortgage giants Fannie and Freddie to pay $159 billion in new bonuses, Obama calls end to ‘Pax Americana’, world leaders pledge $1.1 trillion to IMF, Russia refuses to remove troops from Georgia, NY protesters call for government to ‘Bail out the People’, Hugo Chavez declares that ‘Capitalism must end,’ and Treasuries drop with announcement of next week’s $59 billion note issue and Goldman Sachs estimate that government will need to borrow another $3.25 trillion this year… Continue Reading
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