For all the talk of the economy, and the millions and billions and trillions of dollars in the US budget, it is hard to get a conceptual grasp of what the scale of the expenditures are. A college student does…
Category: The National Debt
Current Financial Problems Facing USA has Roots in Decisions Made Decades Ago
According to WikiPedia, the Nixon Shock was a series of economic measures taken by President Nixon back in the 1970s. Follow the link and read the WikiPedia article. It isn’t hard to see that today’s financial troubles began decades ago…
Two Trillon Tons
Pretty good parody of the “State of the Union”. Sung by the Ghost of Tennessee Ernie Ford And here is another version produced by NBRA, National Black Republican Association. And finally, just for kicks, if you want to hear the…
Straight Talk About the Bail-Outs
If you never read another article about the bailouts, read this one by Ann Coulter. The bail outs were unnecessary, as is evidenced by past instances (during the Regan administration) when the government refused to bail out Wall Street’s bad…