Recent Discussions

Obama is bound and determined to get health care reform one way or another. The methods do not have to be legal, and they do not have to be constitutional. If reconciliation will not work, they will try something else to ram it through. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) agrees with the Obama tactics, (Full article here.) But given the high stakes, “policy trumps process’’ on health care. Meanwhile Pe...

Counting illegal immigrants or even legal non-citizens in the 2010 census seems unconstitutional to me. Why should California, Illinois, Texas, etc be REWARDED for their illegal immigrant and non-citizen population at the expense of other states that do not have as many? This is a conflict with the earlier story I posted today where Congress wants to keep illegal immigrants from being hired by creating biometri...

I am not computer expert, but I fail to see how a biometric card is any better at solving the illegal issue than a driver’s license, which until recently, was not available to illegals. A biometric card could be forged. Data bases could be hacked. It will be slightly more difficult, but not impossible. It is certainly more expensive. It gives more personal info to the government. It is subject to abuse. ...

Violence has again broken out on California University campuses. Only one problem. And this is the disturbing part. The people who frequent this site and attend Tea Parties are angry that the government is spending too much and selling our kids into slavery. Those who are doing the VIOLENT protesting are angry because they are no longer getting something for nothing. Those who are taking to the streets in Greec...

Well here you go then. No suckers are borrowing from the US banks -- apart from the too-big-to-fall banks borrowing from themselves (investment banks borrowing discreetly from their own associated normal bank arms) in order to play roulette on the markets. This lack of private borrowing is bound to create further GDP growth and liquidity problems as the economic deflationary contraction in the US is well set t...

And hereeeeeeeeeees..... CENSUS! In February, employment in the federal government edged up. The hiring of 15,000 temporary workers for Census 2010 was partially offset by a decline in U.S. Postal Service employment. Yep. Headline number was -35,000 and the unemployment rate held at 9.7%, both headline. Everyone's fear of a huge weather impact was instantly dashed, as the BLS said they cou...

In the previous three articles in this series (click here for part 2) the definitions of recession and depression have been discussed based on the NBER (National Bureau of Economic Analysis) definition of recession and a modified definition of the business cycle. The previous articles have had an analysis of GDP (Gross Domestic Product) that explicitly separates the rebound from the bottom of the business cycle...

"America the Empire." "We Occupy 130 Countries" and "America has 750 military bases encircling the globe." "Amerika enslaves the world at the Bankers' Behest." So cry and lie the neolibs. To them, the wars we fought in the last 100 years have all been about Empire-building. Never mind the facts, Amerika is Evil and All Our Troops Should Come Home. We do a...