Tom Cheek is a candidate in the Cobb County District 3 Commission race. Tom not only spoke to the Madison Forum about the reasons he felt compelled to jump into the Cobb County District 3 race, but also spent much of the time answering questions from voters attending the breakfast.
NOTE: Due to the length of this forum, we split the video into two parts; 1) Tom Speaking and 2) … Read more...
The Madison Forum was pleased to have former Dalton Mayor, candidate for Georgia Governor and Madison Forum member, David Pennington, speak at the luncheon meeting on Monday, December 12th at the Rib Ranch restaurant in Marietta Georgia. Pennington spoke on the topic of “Why Trump” and how to make America great again as well as what we need to do locally to reign in Georgia government.
… Read more...By: Les Dunaway
The subject of the Federal Reserve has generated a lot of smoke, but little light. In my opinion, the Federal Reserve must be changed, a LOT.
However, it performs required functions not related to the creation of imaginary wealth which has caused such suffering. Those who shout “Kill the Fed!” with no understanding of or consideration for those functions and their absolute necessity make the rest … Read more...
By: Les Dunaway
The term austerity has been misused hundreds of times daily for months now! It annoyed me the first time, as calling a leg a tail always does.
If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five?
No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg. Abraham Lincoln
It’s reached the point where I’ve got to talk about this latest foray … Read more...
Just The Numbers, Mam
By: Les Dunaway
As regular readers know, I’ve been less than optimistic about the prospects for recovery in the EU. I don’t believe that Greece, Portugal, Italy or, for that matter, France, will wean themselves from the socialist trough.
Sunday night, the most clueless of the clueless “mainstream media”, 60 Minutes, led with An Imperfect Union: Europe’s debt crisis [story] . Steve Kroft deserves … Read more...
Just The Numbers, Mam
By: Les Dunaway
An article by Alberto Mingardi was published in the Friday 23 March 2012 Wall Street Journal titled The European Union According to Hayek. It is an impressive, short summary of key ideas from Friedrich Hayek and an explanation of how Hayek predicted the collapse of the EU, which we are now witnessing. Notice that Mingardi refers to the breakdown of the European … Read more...
Just The Numbers, Mam
By Les Dunaway
Well the suspense is over – what little suspense there was.
“Super Committee Says It’s Unable to Agree on Debt Reduction Deal“
We all knew that Boehner got rolled on the debt limit deal. [read] [read] [read] He should have asked Bush I about trusting Democrats. At least, he called Obama out … Read more...
By Les Dunaway
This week was interesting! We had sort of a replay of how we got where we are – circling the drain, that is. We are running out of runway on the debt ceiling and on the general subject of getting spending under control.
First, we got the news that the housing crash has past the losses of the Great Depression [read]. The underlying causes of … Read more...
By Les Dunaway
Four stories were in the news this week. At first glance, three were financial, our normal subject area, and the other was about character and morality. However, upon reflection – which I had plenty of time for as I had a badly scattered series of appointments – all four are about what happens when voters fail to heed the the admonition which titles this article “Know your … Read more...
By Lamar Cheatham
The current battle for a successful continued resolution has presented the Tea Party with a wonderful opportunity to exercise its mandate to create major reductions in our Federal Budget. A strong point has been made and it has everyone’s attention. I am a firm believer in elimination and then streamlining of the extraordinary and superfluous spending. With continued resolutions this contentious there are created problems.
… Read more...By Les Dunaway
This week’s column is a commentary, with references, on the “chalk talk” that Paul Ryan (R-WI) Chairman House Budget Committee has been presenting to House Republicans to reach a clear understanding of the crisis our country faces. The presentation does not propose solutions, it is only intended to reach understanding of the problem. Below is the description of the sessions from Politico – Mar 6, 2011, pasted … Read more...