Posts Tagged ‘crisis’
by Mike McCune – The Employment Benefit Research Institute finished a survey of working Americans during the closing days of March. It reported the ‘startling’ fact a mere 13% of working Americans are “very confident” when it comes to having enough financial support to retire. To those of us in fly-over America this [...]
Tags: America, American, anything, budget, care, country, crisis, debt, EBRI, Faith, Federal Reserve, form, God, government, interest, man, Reserve, survey, today, Washington
Photo & Review by Stu Wright Japanese manufacturer Mazda Motor Corporation has been around since 1920 and has been selling vehicles in the United States since 1970. They are noted for having sold Wankel-rotary powered cars all over the world, a design that suffered a setback during the 1973 oil crisis. It remains an option [...]
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by Michael McCune – Attention, class: The word of the day is “Sequester.” Isn’t it funny how a word you really never heard before 2013 is now threatening to topple our economy? At least it is if you listen to the major media outlets you’d get that impression. But they are wrong, [...]
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by Jack Minor – The Communist Party USA, which supported Obama during the 2012 election, has now signed on board with the President’s economic plan and is calling on its members to work with unions to pressure Republicans in Congress to raise taxes and increase spending. During a recent conference call on the upcoming [...]
Tags: budget, call, class, Communist Party, Congress, CPUSA, crisis, debt, election, government, labor, negotiations, Obama, Party, reduction, Social, Social Security, tax, time, year
Give more now to get paid tomorrow!by Craig Masters This week Senator Udall sent out an email with the subject line: “Compromise isn’t a dirty word.” His message is that the Republicans need to be reprogrammed into believing that “compromise is not capitulation,” in working with the administration to solve the approaching budget crisis. Of [...]
Tags: budget, campaign, code, Colorado, Congress, crisis, government, job, letter, Mark, Mark Udall, Obama, photo, reduction, reform, Senate, Senator Mark Udall, support, tax, week
The Federal Reserve’s decision to proceed on an open-ended asset-buying policy is being well-received by other central banks but few others.(1) The problem for Ben Bernanke and the U.S. dollar is the move’s aim and its outcome are not the same. Bernanke wanted to address unemployment but, by buying American debt–caused by too much demand [...]
Tags: Bank, control, crisis, debt, ECB, Federal Reserve, form, God, government, Japan, man, money, policy, problem, rate, Reserve, size, The Federal Reserve, time, unemployment
by Mike McCune – As individuals, as a community, as business owners and workers, and as public employees we each have some difficult decisions to make in the near future. The unassailable problem is debt, public and private, that is threatening to overwhelm America. The problem simply cannot be moved down the road any [...]
Tags: America, choice, country, crisis, debt, form, God, government, income, man, Mike, PA, pay, problem, road, Social Security, state, Step, system, Thomas Jefferson
by Matt Lacy – A local Christian school will be hosting this year’s gathering of Greeley and Evans Christians as part of the nationwide events for the National Day of prayer. The event will be at Dayspring Christian Academy located at 3734 W. 20th Street from 11 to 1 p.m. on Thursday, May 3. [...]
Tags: Christian, Civil War, crisis, day, Dayspring Christian Academy, event, father, God, law, Matt Lacy, nation, National, National Day, President Harry Truman, right, Thomas, Thursday, tradition, walk, year
by Jack Minor – A blind Chinese dissident who exposed China’s forced abortion policy, could soon be free in the West if US and Chinese officials are able to successfully iron out a deal to secure his asylum. Bob Fu with ChinaAid, a Texas-based rights group said the two countries want to reach agreement on [...]
Tags: abortion, Beijing, Blind Chinese, Bob Fu, Chen Guangchen, China, Communist Party, country, crisis, decision, issue, Korea, network, Obama, someone, status, Taiwan, Thursday, US, week
By Craig Masters Washington Post today reports that gasoline prices have now exceeded $4.00 per gallon in at least four states. Prices at the pump are expected to continue to rise. But while President Obama is publicly blaming mid-east tensions, big-oil price gouging, and economic factors he inherited from George Bush, his Energy Secretary Steven [...]
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I Am An Optimist–I’m Sure We Have To Changeby Mike McCune – Merry Christmas! Sometimes the best present anyone can receive is a good wakeup call. Earlier this month a “Rant” about the declining wealth of the average American caused a stir among readers. Some contended I had misread the information, others claimed I had [...]
Tags: accounting, America, American, call, country, crisis, effort, government, Michael, Mike, month, opinion, paper, reason, stage, tax, time, today, unemployment, Washington
Housing Market Woes Still Threaten Economyby Mike McCune – The housing sector has long been one of the keystones of the U.S. economy. Between 2002 and 2007 there was a bubble between valuation and actual need that popped in late 2007 and became one of the major causes of the current economic lethargy America is fighting to [...]
Tags: aid, America, area, authority, country, crisis, debt, form, government, home, law, paper, Philadelphia, problem, property, sale, system, TARP, week, woman
by Matt Lacy – The Federal Reserve announced it will crank up the printing presses to provide Europe with billions of dollars to prop up their economy, a move critics say will result in Americans paying more for services through inflation. The Federal Reserve announced it, along with five other central banks will make it [...]
Tags: Congress, crisis, Europe, Federal Reserve, help, interview, Mark Weisbrot, money, OECD, organization, Paul, pay, percent, reason, Reserve, show, Stuart Varney, The Fed, The Federal Reserve, US
Obama intent to weaken U.S.?The cover story of the August 22 issue of Time magazine focuses on the financial collapse of the European Union and the common currency, the never popular Euro. The article, by Rana Foroohar, treats the impending collapse of the Euro as some sort precursor to the break-up of the European Union. [...]
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Limits donations to $100 maximum by Jack Minor – While the country focuses on Republican candidates in Iowa, another individual is running for the Republican nomination with a novel approach, limiting all campaign contributions to a $100 donation. Former Louisiana Governor, Buddy Roemer, announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination several weeks ago. Roemer [...]
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by Jack Minor – During the debt limit debate, financial institutions warned that the U.S. stood in danger of having its credit rating downgraded if it did not take steps to reduce its debt. The national debt is well over $14 trillion dollars and increasing by almost $4 billion per day. To put [...]
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Russian agency says plant another Japan disaster, suffered “catastrophic meltdown”by Jack Minor Following news that radiation from three of the six reactors at the Fukushima power plants did not result in nuclear armageddon, alarmists are now saying a Nebraska nuclear plant is in danger of a similar catastrophe. Reports have been circulating on [...]
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Guest Column By Marvin Wirth First I laughed till I cried, then I just cried at the Bruce Broderius Editorial of June 5th in the Greeley Tribune. His arguments were so pathetic. The function of government is to protect the people. And who was that guy who said, “Government of the people, by the people [...]
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By Mike Bauman On Tuesday Japan raised its estimation of the radiation leaked from its crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant. New measurements showed more radiation than had previously been thought had leaked during the early days following the earthquake and tsunami. The increase changed the international scale of the disaster from a level 5 to a [...]
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Matthew McGovern We are on a precipice. Economic problems have shaken Americans to their core and created an unprecedented level of activism on the right. Unfortunately, the Tea Party has grossly misunderstood the problems and focused their energy in the wrong direction. Efforts have been mis-focused on deregulation, repealing health care and directing capital to [...]
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Matthew McGovernIt approaches swiftly and quietly, as it does year after year. A day that the American right reviles as a representation of government intrusion, inefficiency and greed. Yes, tax day is within sight. For all the rhetoric and vitriol directed at taxes, Americans know very little about their tax system and where their money [...]
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Story and Photo By Jack Minor At a recent forum on agriculture Weld County Commissioner Sean Conway had some sharp words for a Senate staffer asking her boss to lay off local community banks. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and staffers from both Sen. Michael Bennet’s office and Rep Betsy Markey’s office hosted a forum [...]
Tags: agriculture, Bennet, Bennett, campus, capital, College, credit, crisis, development, Farm, farmer, food stamps, Frontier, government, loan, Michael, place, Rep. Betsy Markey, staffer
By Vanessa Dominguez In the United States, someone commits suicide every fifteen minutes. Suicide is the sixth leading cause of death in Colorado. Last Year, Colorado had 28 deaths that were caused by suicide. Mayor Norton has declared the week of September 5th-11th Suicide Prevention Week. According to the Suicide Education and Support Services, the [...]
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Guest Columnist Mike McCune Winston Churchill: The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. RAMBLING THOUGHTS There are many small things to be looked at today, not one is big enough for a “Rant” by itself. Most have gotten no more [...]
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By Jack Minor Despite chilly temperatures and constant rain, the spirits of seven Weld County District Attorney’s Office employees were not dampened on Saturday when they arrived at A Woman’s Place to update a room. A Woman’s Place serves victims and survivors of domestic violence in Weld County by providing safe housing, crisis support, legal [...]
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Guest Column By Michael McCune With the announced retirement of David Obey, the third most powerful Democrat in the Congress, Wednesday afternoon, the Progressive’s control of Congress is even more uncertain after this fall’s elections. That got me playing the old Defense Department game of “What if…?” in which the participants think of potential problems [...]
Tags: America, control, crisis, David Obey, Don, drug cartels, election, government, major meltdown, michael mccune, militia groups, oil spill, POWER, USA, Wall Street
Dear Mr. President: During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and who chatted on a [...]
Tags: care, crisis, culture, culture crisis, gold tooth, Health, health care crisis, JONES, Mr. President, patient, purchase health insurance, quality hospitals
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