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“At the news conference Booker also quoted as saying, “Call me Mr. Scrooge, if you want, but they’ll be no Christmas decorations around the city.”
The average taxpayer sees government waste every day, yet the politicians are blind to it.
It’s not a matter of cutting a hundred million here and there. It’s a matter of stopping [...]

“Up to 60,000 police officer jobs could be lost in the next five years as the government seeks to eliminate the national debt, according to research published today.”
What are some solutions to this budget crisis? make the existing officers more effective. Stop the theatrics involved in a pulling over a motorist to issue a [...]

“.. just last week, the United Nations released a report concluding that the dollar should no longer be the world’s reserve currency because it is not stable enough. The dollar is down 5% over the past month, and even currency traders don’t see it as a safe haven any more.”
The US dollar would almost certainly [...]

“Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses” — (Juvenal, Satire 10.77–81)
By Alex Jones [...]

Free Trade is not about manufacturing. It is about allowing the Rich Folks unfettered access to banking centers and investment houses off shore. It is about the establishment of a world government with common humans nothing more than livestock to be used.
Free Trade is an “Impossible Ideal”. It was a lie! A Charade because [...]

“Those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it…there was a head and shoulders pattern that developed before the Depression in 1929, then with the recovery in 1930 we had another head and shoulders pattern that preceded a fall in the market, and in the current Dow situation we see an exact repeat of [...]

“Those folks are coming here seeking opportunities. Those folks are coming here seeking the American dream.” Pierre told us.
here are an estimated 460,000 ILLEGAL immigrants in Arizona.
These illegal immigrants do not pay taxes on the wages they earn, yet US law allows them medical care and their children to attend school at the expense of [...]

“The reason that consumers are not spending more money has nothing to do with attitudes. The reason that most consumers aren’t spending is the same reason that homeless people aren’t spending much money: They don’t have any money.” — Dean Barker, Counterpunch
Credit cards are the bane of Western society’s existence. Perhaps they are a [...]

“Mr Monks, now head of the European TUC, said: ‘I had a discussion with Barroso last Friday about what can be done for Greece, Spain, Portugal and the rest and his message was blunt: “Look, if they do not carry out these austerity packages, these countries could virtually disappear in the way that we know [...]

“One of the reasons that Canadians (and international commentators, other finance ministers and global financial institutions) buy this Canadian banking fairy tale is the way the government accounts for the money borrowed to support the banks.”

The sorry spectacle of Conservative cabinet ministers flying around the world defending banks from a tax to cover their next, [...]

“According to several reports, a spokesman for the new prime minister of Hungary, a member of the European Union that does not use the euro currency, said that talk of a Hungarian default is not “an exaggeration.”

Hungary truly is a welfare state. It’s a nation of 10 million that has three million pensioners. Besides money [...]

“Ontario says healthcare could eat up 70 percent of its budget in 12 years, if all these costs are left unchecked. “Why are we paying more or the same for cataract surgery when it costs substantially less today than it did 10 years ago? There’s going to be a finer look at what we’re paying [...]

“Europe’s top job-creator only two years ago, Spain now has the region’s highest unemployment rate, at just over 20 percent, and is the slowest of the major economies to emerge from the global recession. Meanwhile, the ratings agency dealt a blow to state efforts to shore up confidence in its finances by cutting the [...]

“We [Miami] are not the only city, municipality to be going through this. It looks like Los Angeles sometime next week or the week after will be going bankrupt. It looks like there will be 30 more cities following suit.” New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said the state is “careening our way toward becoming [...]

“That’s an incredible surge,” Adrian Aguirre, an economist at Caracas-based Bancaribe SA, said in a telephone interview. “The fact that food prices rose by more than 11 percent is something we’ve never seen in the last decade.”

Consumer prices rose 5.2 percent in April from March, according to the central bank’s benchmark Caracas price index, released [...]

“Carolyn Angelette said around 100 clients have canceled summer rentals in Grand Isle, LA. Other clients have postponed plans to buy a home until they see the full extent of oil damage. At this rate, she warns, her Century 21 office will go out of business.”

It is obvious BP will be in litigation for decades [...]

“People have looked at Greece over the last three to four months and now they’re focusing their attention on Spain and its banking sector,” said Aroop Chatterjee. Tensions on the Korea peninsula also buoyed the dollar and yen after South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had told his troops [...]

“When asked whether the hirings are a gamble based on the state of the economy, Marchionne smiled and said: “Don’t be so skeptical. It’s a good day. Enjoy it.” — Fiat Head

Chrysler Group LLC gave a big boost to the battered Michigan economy Friday when it announced plans to add about 1,100 workers to help [...]

“”I’m very concerned we’re headed down the same path as Greece,” Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., told Fox News. “Greece found itself in a situation where its public debt was 113 percent of its GDP. They had taken on all this debt, expanded programs and America is headed down the same path.” — Cathy McMorris

The [...]

“Papaconstantinou confirmed Sunday that the government would tighten its belt significantly, despite the protests. “The expenses of the public sector will go down very considerably,” he said. Prime Minister George Papandreou earlier Sunday tried to rally the country behind the government. “We will do everything possible. We are planning very serious changes,” Papandreou [...]