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Friday, April 30, 2010
Broke state declares April ‘financial literacy month’
"We hooted recently over the Orange County Business Council’s new Web site, CaliforniaSquirrel.com, which targets the “distractions” elected officials pursue at the expense of more important public business."
This might be hilarious if we didn't have the exact same thing happening here in Michigan and Muskegon.
Of course we don't have time for financial "literacy" month here yet.
We're still celebrating National County Government Month! http://co.muskegon.mi.us/boardofcommissioners/govt_month_2010.htm
GVSU students forced to move from Copper Beech apartments during finals
"When Grand Valley State University senior Jacob Taykowski took over another student's lease at Copper Beech Townhomes last year, he didn't realize it ended in late April, before he got a chance to tackle his five finals
.
'It's just a hassle trying to move your stuff out and studying for finals at the same time,' Taykowski said.
'It's just a pain.'"
And these "students" expect to be hired by any company?
I'd definately add them to my "do not hire cuz they're too stupid" list.
And you gotta love the GRP who decided this idiocy was worth publishing.
"No other worries here in Michigan that we might send our reporters to investigate".
And they wonder why their readership tanked.
Too Hot Not to Note: Coulter: Washington Takes Break From Porn Surfing to Bailout Wall Street
"Democrats have decided that in order to prevent Wall Street from starting more financial meltdowns, wrecking the economy and leaving the American taxpayer holding the bag, we need to give more oversight authority to the same government employees who were busy surfing Internet porn as private investors frantically tried to warn them about Bernie Madoff."
Bailouts for Dummies
"The Dodd – Goldman Sachs financial services takeover bill can be intimidating to understand for many people, including myself.
However, when all the smoke clears it really comes down to four basic points:"
Well done.
The coming catastrophe
"Let’s hope so, for the deficit challenge will loom like an appointment for a root canal once the recovery takes hold. Confronting it requires a recognition that tough choices simply can’t be avoided.
Indeed, Reischauer, who led CBO from 1989 to 1995, had this blunt advice for the panel.
“First, don’t waste time looking for silver bullets or new approaches that hold out the promise of painless sacrifice,’’ he said.
“There are none to be found.’’"
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Advice to Tea Partiers
"Advice to Tea Partiers
Posted by Chris Moody
The Tea Party movement may endure, but its endurance will be a testament to its ability to understand that cutting government means having a long-term focus, says John Samples, author of the Cato book The Struggle to Limit Government. In a new video, Samples outlines an assessment of what Tea Partiers should do if they want to sustain an effort to cut government.
He offers five pieces of advice for members of the Tea Party movement:
1. Republicans aren’t always your friends.
2. Some tea partiers like big government.
3. Democrats aren’t always your enemies.
4. Smaller government demands restraint abroad.
5. Leave social issues to the states."
Instapundit » Blog Archive » MEGAN MCARDLE: The most terrifying words I’ve seen written so far about the growing crisis in Gre…
MEGAN MCARDLE:
The most terrifying words I’ve seen written so far about the growing crisis in Greece were penned by Yves Smith yesterday: “So the whole idea that the financial crisis was over is being called into doubt. Recall that the Great Depression nadir was the sovereign debt default phase. And the EU’s erratic responses (obvious hesitancy followed by finesses rather than decisive responses) is going to prove even more detrimental as the Club Med crisis grinds on.”
The Great Depression was composed of two separate panics. As you can see from contemporary accounts–and I highly recommend that anyone who is interested in the Great Depression read the archives of that blog along with Benjamin Roth’s diary of the Great Depression–in 1930 people thought they’d seen the worst of things.
I hope that history isn’t repeating itself.
Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 6:28 pm"
Did the Tea Party win the debate over the N-word accusations?
"At the March 20th Tea Party protest in Washington, Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., Rep. John Lewis D-Ga., and Rep. Emanuel Cleaver D-Mo. accused protesters of of yelling the N-word some 15 times at the black lawmakers.
Since then, no proof that this happened has emerged despite the presence of numerous cameras.
Well, Tea Partiers pushed back against the claims of racism hard — and an article in the Christian Science Monitor, “Why ‘tea party’ defenders won’t let N-word claims rest,” suggests they have had some success at convincing the mainstream media they were wrong to run with the accusations sans evidence"
GM's Phony Bailout Payback
"But when Whitacre says GM has paid back the bailout money in full, he means not the entire $49.5 billion—the loan and the equity.
In fact, he avoids all mention of that figure in his column.
He means only the $6.7 billion loan amount."
These liars could never get away with these misleading ads without the wholehearted support of the liberal media.
This is a national disgrace that Americans are lied to on national TV that GM has paid EVERYTHING back.
It is a lie!
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Big doin's today at County commission meeting
3:30 today, tuesday april 27.
New parking ramp (again), airplane rentals subsidized?, more melting of the hiring freeze!
Be there or pay the price for your lethargy.
GVSU promises to immediately cut tuition 5 percent if lawmakers guarantee minimum funding
"Grand Valley State University would immediately lower tuition by 5 percent, if lawmakers pledge give the school the same level of funding the other state universities get, President Thomas Haas says."
Another bait and switch scam from the same folks who have given us underworked, overpaid, early-retiring educators who provide our state with a 52% graduation rate.
Sure promise the kids and their parents a quick fiscal fix now.
But keep the automatic faculty raises and benefits out of the conversation.
Oh yeah, and bump up the taxes for everyone left in our bankrupt state.
When will we begin to see these parasites for what they really are?
Earth Day predictions of 1970. The reason you shouldn’t believe Earth Day predictions of 2009
Here are some of the hilarious, spectacularly wrong predictions made on the occasion of Earth Day 1970."
I'm thinking many of these same "experts" are around today.
Even abusive public employees can't get fired
"Some of the most stunning articles I've read in a long while were in the Los Angeles Times' 2009 investigative series, 'Failure gets a pass,' which documents the near impossibility of firing unionized public school teachers in the massive Los Angeles Unified School District -- even those teachers credibly accused of sexually molesting or harassing their students"
If we continue to allow this, it will continue to grow, their power will grow and the end of our republic will be near.
We can stop this if we start attending local governmental meetings...NOW!
Public-sector unions bankrupting America
"By 2013, the amount of retirement money promised to employees of these public entities will exceed cash on hand by more than a trillion dollars."
Why are no (except Gov. Cristie) republicans running on this issue?
Poll stunner: Sen. Bennett on brink of defeat
"A new Salt Lake Tribune poll of Republican delegates shows Bennett running in third, behind GOP challengers Mike Lee and Tim Bridgewater.
Lee logged 37 percent support in the survey, while Bridgewater came in at 20 percent, and Bennett lagged at 16 percent."
This is what the tea party movement MUST continue to do.
Oust the RINOS and win elections!
The New Fat Cats
"John Edwards was right.
There are two Americas, just not his two (the rich and powerful versus everyone else).
The real divide today is, on one side, the 20 million people who work for state and local governments and the additional 3 million who’ve retired with fat pensions.
On the other, the rest of us, roughly 280 million Americans.
In short, there’s a gulf between the bureaucrats and the people"
We tighten our belts so they can buy new, bigger belts.
Are we so timid that we will continue to let the unions destroy our fiscal lives....and out country?
Bill to check city bankruptcies advances
While San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders insists bankruptcy is not on the city’s agenda, his administration is nevertheless alarmed over a labor-mounted campaign to take away the right of municipalities to declare insolvency and cancel contracts with their public employee unions.
The Senate Local Government Committee on Monday approved legislation that would require cities to first secure permission from an obscure appointed state agency before they could file for bankruptcy.
This simply means that a democrat/union controlled "agency" would deny a city's obligation to declare bankruptcy when there was no other option..... unless there was the option of forcing taxpayers to pay more.
No need to change union pay/benefits/retirement just like any other bankruptcy,
This will doom any hope of our municipalities to survive the attack of the public service union onslaught.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Economists say the stimulus didn't help
"The recovery is picking up steam as employers boost payrolls, but economists think the government's stimulus package and jobs bill had little to do with the rebound, according to a survey released Monday.
In latest quarterly survey by the National Association for Business Economics, the index that measures employment showed job growth for the first time in two years -- but a majority of respondents felt the fiscal stimulus had no impact."
Carbon storage premise 'totally erroneous'
"A RESEARCH paper from American academics is threatening to blow a hole in growing political support for carbon capture and storage as a weapon against global warming.
The paper from Houston University says that governments wanting to use carbon sequestration have overestimated its value and says it would take a reservoir the size of a small US state to hold the carbon dioxide produced by one power station."
Remember that ash cloud? It didn't exist, says new evidence
"Jim McKenna, the Civil Aviation Authority's head of airworthiness, strategy and policy, admitted:
'It's obvious that at the start of this crisis there was a lack of definitive data."
This disaster cost hundreds of millions and more than a week of suffering and inconvenience.
And the nannies who made this decision had no "definitive" data?!!!
There's something in London......
Obama’s National Security Advisor Tells Joke Depicting Jews as Greedy Merchants
This guy is our country's National Security Advisor?!!!
Imagine the "outrage" if he was a republican.
Imagine the "outrage" if he'd made a similar "joke" about a black.... or a muslim!
Obama seeks to 'reconnect...young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women' for 2010
"The Democratic National Committee this morning released this clip of the president rallying the troops, if rather coolly, for 2010. Obama's express goal: 'reconnecting' with the voters who voted for the first time in 2008, but who may not plan to vote in the lower-profile Congressional elections this year.
Obama speaks with unusual demographic frankness about his coalition in his appeal to 'young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women who powered our victory in 2008 [to] stand together once again.'"
White males need not apply?
Imagine Mitch McConnell's comparable "speech".... "We want to reconnect with seniors, euro-Americans and of course, our manly-Americans, who all stand tall to propel our victory in 2010."
Why, in America today, is Obama be able to say what he said and a republican would be exoriated if he said the above?
The Big Brown Union Bailout: UPS and the Teamsters vs. FedEx
"If you can't beat 'em, have Congress hobble 'em.
That's the motto of some in corporate America, and Exhibit A might be United Parcel Service's campaign to get Washington to impose its labor woes on rival Federal Express.
This would be one more union bailout at the expense of business competition and economic efficiency.
House Transportation Chairman James Oberstar (D., Big Labor) last year slipped 230 words into a spending bill that would make it easier for the Teamsters to unionize FedEx.
This ambush was included at the urging of UPS, which has been saddled with the Teamsters for decades ..."
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Violent Pro Illegal Immgration Protest in Arizona
"Where is Bill Clinton?
This ain’t no Tea Party!
Really, where is Bill Clinton?
Wasn’t he lecturing us just a week ago that protests could lead to violence?
Where are all the media talking heads who echoed Clinton’s absurd attempt to link the Tea Partiers to violence?
Yet, here’s a riot started by protesters against the new law in Arizona to toughen up enforcement on illegal immigration in Phoenix on April 23. Bottles were hurled at police and threats of violence that make even the rowdiest Tea Party look like a church picnic.
You’ll see the bottles thrown here, striking police officers who try to usher a lone anti-illegal immigration protester from the scene for his own safety:"
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Media Heresy: Bill Clinton Helped Cause 2008 Financial Crisis
On Saturday, a former editorial page editor for the Wall Street Journal, George Melloan, made the connection even stronger as he pointed a finger at someone most in the media have shamelessly given a pass for his involvement in this crisis
To promote "affordable" housing, Bill Clinton had excused the two giant government-sponsored housing finance agencies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, from normal banking rules, allowing them leverage ratios far in excess of the limits on ordinary lenders.
Banks were forced to write risky mortgage loans, a large number of which were then folded into mortgage-backed securities that Fannie, Freddie and others sold internationally with triple-A ratings.
This business seized up, crippling banks throughout the world, when holders began to realize that the assets that backed the securities, home mortgages, were going under water at an alarming rate.
Cavuto: Obama Should Fix 'His' Street Before Wall Street - FOXBusiness.com
"President Obama wants to fix Wall Street.
May I suggest he start … on 'his' street.
Here's the deal:
'What' is the deal with castigating financial guys for being reckless, and saying nothing about Washington being, well, just a wreck?
What's the deal with blasting fat cats for showing little accountability and costing taxpayers billions…
And saying not a word about politicians in Washington showing 'no' accountability and costing taxpayers trillions?
And what's the deal demanding banks return every rescue dollar and never get too big to fail...
Not once acknowledging all those blown and now lost government dollars on spending programs too many to count?"