Category: Spending

The Great Bamboozle

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of it; we’re no longer interested in finding out the truth; the bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too…

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Massaging the Truth

By now you’ve more than likely figured out that Media coverage of anything coming out of D.C. is tainted.  The same holds true in all the fear mongering about the debt ceiling.  The truth is not nearly as cut-and-dry as…

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America’s Biggest Ponzi Scheme

Bernie Madoff ran the world’s largest Ponzi scheme by promising to invest his client’s money in productive enterprises and pay them generous returns, when in fact he spent the money and manufactured fake statements.  Those returns, if any, were funded…

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Hooked on Red Ink

President Biden has assured the nation that America is out of its dire economic situation. If he is to be believed, inflation and high gas prices are a thing of the past. But is there more to the narrative than…

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The Games Politicians Play

Democrat Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia wanted regulatory reform, in part, he claimed, to reverse some of Biden’s reversals of Trump-era reforms for fossil fuel projects.  Majority Leader Chuck Schumer needed Manchin’s vote to enact Biden’s cash cow for…

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With RINOs Like McConnell

According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, McConnell Casts Ukraine Vote as Victory over Republican Party’s Isolation Wing, during a big media tour McConnell not only praised Biden’s foreign policy, but virulently attacked the “Isolation Wing” of…

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Spin, Lie, Duck and Dodge

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”  Thomas Sowell The Fed insists that persistent high inflation, clocking in at its highest level…

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Who Hates America More Than Biden?

Writing in “The Mountain Democrat,” a Lake Tahoe regional website, Larry Weitzman asks the question in the title of his article – “Who hates America more? Russia, China or Joe Biden and Democrats?” Some might say that it is only…

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Manipulating Inflation Numbers

Imagine a world in which I was legally allowed to steal 13–30% of your wealth every single year, and lie to you about how much I’m stealing.  Welcome to Planet Earth, 2021.  Strange Sounds The U.S. has fallen to 20th…

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The Government Family Plan

No amount of money can replace the moral problems that plague society.  John Horvat II Biden, working on the so-called American Families Plan is facing pressure from Pelosi and Bernie Sanders over whether to use the plan to strengthen ObamaCare…

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Build Back What!!!!!

Deficit Spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth. Alan Greenspan The Tax Foundation estimates that Biden’s “Build Back Better” tax and spending legislation will reduce long-run economic output by 0.98%, and eliminate 303,000 full-time equivalent jobs.…

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Sticking It To The Rich?

Bernie Sanders claims that those who have billions shouldn’t exist because, as a true socialist, he believes that if the state taxes wealth away from those in possession of an “unacceptable” amount of wealth and then redistributes it to lower…

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Using Digital Dollars to Control

“Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws.”  Mayer Amschel Rothschild Did you know that bill denominations of $500, $1000, $5,000 and $10,000 were removed from circulation in 1969 by order of…

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Swamponomics

NEWS FLASH:   Experts say there is no inflation  – unless you eat, rent or own your home, or seek medical care. The U.S. government claims that there is no increase in prices, except for things that consumers are buying. That…

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