Archive for March, 2010

Author Tony De Maio Unfortunately, the following did not happen. Perhaps someday it will. The scene is a high school basketball gymnasium. An elected official has just taken the microphone and tells the audience that he is there to hear their concerns, that he is sympathetic to their needs and wants to know what they [...]

Author Linda Brady Traynham THE DEFICIT PROBLEM: 1. Instead of Obama, Harry, and Nancy going to the trouble of writing a budget proposal for 2011, simply pull out the budget for 2001 and use that. Win, lose, or draw, what each department got then is what it has to spend in FY 2011-12, and tough [...]

Author Essie Fedhacher I was doing some mental mullings comparing last month to this in the shopping and food sector. I feel something is afoot and dire. Elsewhere on forums and in the local Midwestern area, things are disconcerting. I don’t think we are that many months away from some dire straits with grub. Sharing [...]

Author Linda Brady Traynham An occasionally distasteful measure of how effective those who write on politics, economics, “memes,” and mores are is the quality of those who oppose them. This does not make receiving hate mail any more pleasant, and after reading Gary Gibson’s and mine today I am pondering the relative efficacy of a [...]

Author Tony De Maio (How to Fight a Fire) 　 Once upon a time in a land far, far away, there was a peaceful, prosperous town. The town was called “Gridlock”. This town was quite interesting. Most of the decisions were made democratically in town hall (sometimes called town howl) meetings. There were THREE politically [...]

Author Tex Norton Last July while many of us were in Vancouver attending the Agora Financial Symposium, the Congress of the USA passed yet another increase in the mandatory Minimum Wage. I wrote about it at the time (see Why Minimum Wage Means Maximum Slavery http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/why-minimum-wage-means-maximum-slavery/). In that article, I pointed-out that as the government-required [...]

Author Linda Brady Traynham WONK: We were without power for 8 days in January 2009. Although we had a generator, we had no water during the January ice storm because the generator was not wired in to the house, and we are not on city water. Once I wired it into the house, my furnace [...]

Author Tony DeMaio Everybody wants to be rich! Some say they just want to be “comfortable”–but they really mean “rich”. To some, being “rich” means a mansion, luxury cars, servants, fine restaurants, etc. To others, being “rich” means having enough to eat. Some people think I’m rich. I am. I define rich as having enough [...]

Author Tony DeMaio Once upon a time there was a peaceful valley. In this valley, the people worked hard. They believed in thrift, hard work, and hard play. The people valued education, and were very proud of their school district, which they supported through their taxes—though their taxes were not very high. The district consisted [...]

Author Essie Feldhacher I love plastic, airtight, snap-lock tubs. And I remember when they were ‘invented’. But then, being born in the 4th year of the Baby Boom Generation, (1946-1964) I recall when a lot of items people take for granted today came into existence. For Yours Truly, among the most appreciated – the vast [...]