Opinion Forum

Debt Limit Talks Collapse – Again

July 22nd, 2011

By Dan Miller According to this breaking news from the Washington Post, the debt limit talks have, once again, collapsed and House leaders are now working with Senate leaders to craft an alternative plan to raise the federal debt limit, but so far they have not reached agreement on a way to meet an Aug. [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: budget, debt limit, deficit, election, negotiations, spending, taxes
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Options Limited in Debt Ceiling Mess

July 21st, 2011

By Dan Miller There are many approaches to the current debt limit mess and few of them are likely to work. The Cut, Cap and Balance bill that recently passed the House is unlikely to pass the Democratic-controlled Senate and, even if it did, President Obama has said that he would veto it. Even if [...]

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Tags: budget, debt limit, deficit, election, negotiations, spending, taxes
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Wanted: Sacrifices for Obama’s Reelection Campaign

July 19th, 2011

By Dan Miller President Obama and others negotiating an end to the debt limit mess are searching for ways out of a political crisis of their own making and trying desperately to kick cans full of worms and of blame down the road to avoid losses during next year’s elections. Solving the underlying problems would [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: crisis, debt limit, entitlements, Medicare, negotiations, pandering, SS, taxes
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Set Your Children’s “Defaults” Early

July 13th, 2011

By Dr. Jim Taylor For you to send the healthiest possible messages to your children requires that you fully buy into my notion that children become the messages they get the most. Though it seems to be a pretty intuitive and reasonable concept, I feel the need to thoroughly convince you of the profound value of [...]

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Tags: children, culture, defaults, habits, parenting, responses, society, values
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Advance Text of President Obama’s Best Speech Ever

July 13th, 2011

By Dan Miller This is an advance text of the speech President Obama is scheduled to deliver to the nation following the partisan rejection of his final compromise to end the debt standoff and to ensure enduring national prosperity. Provided by a highly placed source at the White House who for obvious reasons insists on [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: campaign, debt limit, distortion, economy, satire, speech, unemployment
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How Do You Solve a Problem like the National Debt?

July 11th, 2011

By Dan Miller Like a leaky faucet wasting water, it’s time to stop the careless flow of taxpayer money. Also see Video: President Obama promises ‘massive job-killing taxes’ if he is re-elected, at The PJ Tatler. * * * The sky is falling! Quick! Run hide under your made-in-China umbrella before it’s too late! As [...]

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Tags: 14th Amendment, debt, deficit, entitlements, negotiations, spending, taxes
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Social Security Is a Ponzi Scheme … But

July 9th, 2011

By Dan Miller It is claimed by President Obama and many others that Social Security retirement benefits must be on the cutting table during negotiations over raising the national debt limit. It may happen, and then we will see which party does the better job of playing the blame game. According to this article, Entitlement [...]

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Tags: contributions, debt, deficit, entitlements, Ponzi, retirement, Social Security
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If Chavez Dies, What Happens to Cuba?

July 4th, 2011

By Tom Carter We may have a new crisis brewing right outside our back door. Americans, aside from a few dunderheads on the far left, don’t think much of Hugo Chavez, the President of Venezuela. He oppresses his own people and demonizes America at every turn, and if he dies from his current illness few [...]

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Tags: Chavez, Cuba, death, Florida, health, instability, oil, refugees, Venezuela
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Blood for Oil!

July 2nd, 2011

By Dan Miller When we went to war in Iraq, those on the left yelled that we were shedding blood for oil. It seems that they may have been right — oil for our great friend and ally China. According to this article, China starts oil pumping in Iraq China has begun pumping oil [...]

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Tags: China, domestic, drilling, Iraq, oil, satire, U.S.
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There Are Two Different Subsets of Economics

June 28th, 2011

By Dan Miller Bryan Preston’s recent article about another “unexpected” fall in consumer confidence caused me to reflect a bit on different branches of economics. An analogy could be drawn to the different branches of medicine: if you fall, can’t walk, your leg hurts and a piece of bone is sticking out, it would be [...]

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Tags: consumers, demand, macroeconomics, microeconomics, regulation, supply
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Obama’s America in Black & White

June 23rd, 2011

By Seth Forman Black political segregation, nurtured by the policies of the 1960s, has only hardened in the Obama years. Platitudes about the civic utopia that would spring forth from the election of Barack Obama have vanished. Thomas Friedman’s claim that “the American Civil War ended, as a black man … became president of the [...]

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Tags: African American, black, dependence, polarization, race, welfare, white
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Where Are Diogenes and His Lantern?

May 27th, 2011

By Dan Miller Diogenes is known for having traveled about ancient Greece with his lantern looking for an honest man. It was a different age and he may not also have looked for honest women. Perhaps there was no need because in those times all women were honest. Whatever. Now it seems that Christine Lagarde, [...]

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Tags: Digenes, honest, IMF, Lagarde, lantern, man, prosecution, scandal, woman
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A Letter from Fly-Over Country

May 16th, 2011

By Nancy Morgan Dear President Obama, My neighbors here in Murrells Inlet have appointed me their spokesman in order to relay to you the results of our latest kitchen cabinet meeting. We believe we’ve come up with some great solutions to many of America’s pressing problems. Of course, not a one of us is an [...]

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Tags: economy, energy, entitlements, federal, fly-over, immigration, policy
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National Financial Recovery Requires Sacrifice

May 16th, 2011

By Tom Carter Robert Samuelson has been writing on economics and business for well over 30 years. However, he’s not an economist; his academic field at Harvard was government and politics. That alone may explain why his views on economics are more logical than those of professional economists. It should be clear to everyone at [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: crisis, cuts, debt, deficits, financial, fiscal, Medicare, Social Security
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Is Obama a Serial Liar?

May 10th, 2011

By Nancy Morgan Accusing someone of lying is a serious matter. Especially when that someone is the President of the United States. Charges of that nature should be leveled based only on absolute proof of a deliberate statement, intentionally made, whose sole purpose is to deceive. Based on this criteria, President Obama is a liar. [...]

Articles written by Nancy Morgan
Tags: bin Laden, budget, deficits, gas, immigration, liar, lies, Obama, prices, taxes
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Statistical Confusion and Sensual Economics

May 5th, 2011

By Tom Carter Seems the only thing people can agree on about the nation’s economic health is that the patient isn’t feeling well. Beyond that, diagnoses and prognoses and treatment regimens are all different, depending on the ideologies of the political physicians in attendance as well as the rubes in the hallway. The most logical [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: confusion, economy, ideology, partisanship, spending, statistics, taxes
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An Immodest Proposal

April 21st, 2011

By Brian Bagent I may be mistaken, but it has probably been a couple years since a trial-balloon was floated regarding implementing a Value-Added Tax (VAT) here in the States. With the way the budget, revenue, and debt are being discussed, it is bound to come up again as a means to “solve” the problems [...]

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Tags: business, debt, Europe, Fair Tax, income tax, profit, taxes, U.S., VAT
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Bad News and Worse News

April 19th, 2011

By Tom Carter Which do you want first — the bad news on the economy or the worse news? OK, the bad news is that our economy continues to swirl around the drain, and it’s inexorably glugging away. Witness, for example, that Standard & Poor’s has just affirmed the U.S. government’s AAA credit rating, but [...]

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Tags: 2012, economy, election, partisanship, politicians, spending, taxes, voters
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It Was a Great Speech!

April 14th, 2011

By Dan Miller It was a masterstroke which should be recorded as the high point of his presidency. As I read the advance text of President Obama’s thoughtfully smart proposals to reduce the deficit, some options British Prime Minister Hacker (fictitious) considered for a party political — his first after becoming PM in Yes, Prime [...]

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Tags: budget, debt, deficit, Medicare, Social Security, spending, taxes
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Too Bad Kids Can’t Vote

April 11th, 2011

By Dr. Jim Taylor If children could vote, then I’m sure politicians in both our federal and state governments would demonstrate some actual concern for them rather than demonstrating a wanton disregard for these little citizens who are the future of America. This profound indifference to the needs of our children is displayed starkly in [...]

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Tags: budget, children, cuts, federal, politicians, spending, taxes, vote, voting
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