I suppose I will come out of my long blogging hibernation to comment on the bill that was just passed to increase the debt ceiling. I’m having a hard time reconciling the media perception of the budget cuts with the bill that actually passed. Everyone is screaming about huge cuts, but here are the facts. [...]
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Earlier today, a man named Joe Stack crashed his plane into an IRS building out of frustration with the federal government. In a long letter which he posted, full of misspellings and grammatical errors, he makes an interesting point: I remember reading about the stock market crash before the “great” depression and how there were [...]
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A truly awful post over at Queercents a few weeks ago deserves a proper analysis, and tonight I find myself with the time to do so. Ashley writes about the challenges of being transgendered: It seems to me that we Transgendered, as a group, are not overly prosperous. Oh, I know that some of us [...]
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The news is full of stories about auto dealerships closing and filing for bankruptcy, such as this one on Bloomberg: General Motors Corp. said it may lose as many as 500 dealers in its home market this year, an increase from 350 last year, as the largest U.S. automaker works toward a goal of cutting [...]
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Today on Queercents, I question the benefit of the stimulus package currently working its way through Congress: “The US government has been moving fairly quickly to pass some form of stimulus package to try to head off a recession. The stimulus package would basically amount to mailing $150 billion out to everyone, with the point [...]
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Today on Queercents, I posted about the good side of commercialism: “My partner and I went to Gay Days at Disney World in Orlando for the first time in June of this year. You may have read stories in the press about the economic impact of this yearly event, but it’s not news to the [...]
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My new post on Queercents today discusses Ron Paul’s position on getting rid of the Federal Reserve: “The Federal Reserve has been getting a lot of attention in the last few months. With the recent housing meltdown and market volatility, it’s hard to miss the articles in the financial press. Some have blamed the Fed [...]
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