Category Archives: Congress

What Kind of Government Do We Really Have?

By Tom Kiser

Governments of the kind that we have today in this nation are an unfunny, terminally sick joke! Does anyone really believe that the purchasing power that our federal government has stolen from our descendants will ever be repaid?

Governments have the power to take and make use of some part of the worth that is being produced by the economically productive members of the nation’s society, current … Read more...

Unwashed, but useful idiots – Just The Numbers, Mam

By Les Dunaway

The Occupy Wall Street demonstrations have brought up a subject that needs more scrutiny.  A member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, who dissented from the report, summarizes what happened in the Oct 12th Wall Street Journal.

Judging from the squealing from the left, below, he struck a nerve. Take a look a these videos, in light of what we know now, and see if … Read more...

‘a bunch of clowns’ – Just The Numbers, Mam

By Les Dunaway

Well, Charlie Rangel thinks Congress looks like a ‘bunch of clowns’ for not raising taxes. I got a news flash, or two, for you Charlie. First, yes, many in Congress do look like clowns for their complete lack of understanding of economics. Second, they’ve been looking like clowns for decades. Oh, and by the way, there’s several in the Executive Branch wearing fright wigs, rubber noses and … Read more...

Politics At Its Worst – And Best

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By Donald S. Conkey

How did the United States Congress ever allow the government of the United States to reach a point where a financial crisis could seriously jeopardize America’s financial creditability if the debt limit is not raised by August 2, 2011? This current scenario is politics at its worst – and at its best.

Politics at its worst because the politicians have allowed this crisis to happen … Read more...

R.I.P., UNCLE SAM

By Tom Kiser

It appears that the time may have come for We, the People, to have a nationwide Irish Wake. “Our” federal government has detached from the rest of the nation and in so doing is no longer in touch with its reason for being and thus has likely already committed suicide.

The reason that the rank and file members of the public sector unions won’t except that their … Read more...