Posts Tagged ‘national debt’

Today’s Friday Funny comes our way via Saturday Night Live.  In a skit with Steve Martin, the crew comes across the novel concept that you shouldn’t buy something if you can’t afford it. Certainly this is a lesson many Americans could stand to learn.  Witness many of the so-called ‘victims’ of the mortgage crisis who [...]

We close out the workweek with a video message for President Barack Obama and Congress:  Pay your #$%#^& bills! Warning: Adult language so be careful at work and around the kids!

Someone needs to explain to President Barack Obama one key phrase – “It’s the economy, stupid.”  This axiom seems to have fallen on deaf ears within the administration as today Obama blamed ‘skittish and nervous’ Americans and the ‘trauma’ that came before he took office. Stagnant unemployment.  Exploding debt.  An expanding deficit. An analysis released by [...]

There are many among the elected officials in Washington DC who provide some pretty extraordinary sound bites.  Few however reach the level of California’s Barbara Boxer whose stupidity is oftentimes on full display much to our delight. Nearly two years ago she dressed down an Army general for daring to call her ma’am.  Soon after [...]

The economy and more specifically the national debt was a key factor in this past November’s elections.  The American people have grown weary of a government that refuses to live within its means, something which we all individually do.  Analysis of the national debt since Democrats took over the House of Representatives in 2007 provides [...]

A man who grew up in a New Jersey tenement and went on to become co-founder of one of the largest retailers in the country knows a thing or two about the economy and about business.  Bernie Marcus of Home Depot fame appeared on CNBC last week and had less than kind words for those [...]

Time to wake up and smell the trash, folks!  As the bleeding from job losses and a sinking economy continues, our congress and president are intent on taking us down a path from which we will assuredly get lost if something isn’t done soon.  Emphasizing that point, the director of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office [...]

This is pretty eye opening.  How much is your money worth?  It is directly related to how much money is in circulation – the more money in circulation, the less ‘bang for the buck’ and the greater debt.  The ridiculous amount of spending implemented by President Obama and the Democrat led Congress has been well documented [...]