Political Smack

It all started after 9/11 when George Bush and the Republican Controlled Congress decided to spend more money than what the government took in. That meant the government had to borrow money. Who did the government borrow money from? Not from your rich Aunt in Topeka or Americans like her. No our creditors are now the likes of the Chinese, Indian, Japanese Central Banks. Big deal you say deficits aren't bad. Well deficits are beneficial in the short term as a means to jump start the economy. (By the way I am a Pro Life, Pro Gun, Fiscal Conservative who supported Bush's father (who ... Read Full Story

W's recipe for disaster: Cut taxes Raise spending Increase debt and deficits to record levels Get into an expensive prolonged war without an exit strategy Don't balance the budget. Dick Cheney said deficits don't matter. However, Greenspan , Buffet and 99% of the world's economists disagree. Cheney has no training in economics. By the way Cheney said Saddam had WMD and that there was a connection between Saddam and Bin Laden Have government borrowing crowd out corporate borrowing (the government can pay "risk free" interest. Thus setting the floor for interest rates. Companies now have to pay higher interest rate because corporate bonds are ... Read Full Story

© 2002, Rick Satterfield. The Mormon Temple has been the highest physical symbol of Godliness by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints here on the planet. According to their unique beliefs, gospel saving ordinances for the dead and ordinances such as eternal marriages are conducted only within the walls of such edifices. The Latter Day Saints (Mormons) consider such buildings so sacred that only worthy members of the church with Temple recommends signed off by the appropriate church leadership can enter and participate in the ordinances. Those who enter are asked to keep the experiences and ordinances in the temple to ... Read Full Story

Report by Terry Kroup, VA Chapter In a nation lead by self centered, power-hungry robber-barons, many Americans find it amazing that nearly every member of Congress can work so well together in a calculated effort to deprive the citizenry of the rights guaranteed them by the U.S. Constitution. “The key to their unparalleled working success,” according to an unnamed DC insider, goes by the name of Warren Buffet.” One need only to spend a few hours with any one of the countless old-time political pundits to learn that Congressmen (‘Sneetches’ as they are called in DC) didn’t always get along so well. What follows ... Read Full Story

Elizabeth Alexander It has been over a couple of weeks since the inauguration of President Obama. I wanted to look back on that day and especially on the poem that was read by Elizabeth Alexander. It was only the 4 th time in our nation’s history that a poet read a poem in that ceremony. It brings up powerful imagery that now has special resonance as we look back to that event a few steps forward in time from it. Praise Song for the Day By: Elizabeth Alexander Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each others’ eyes or ... Read Full Story