by Matt Lacy – Showing an incredible vote of “no confidence” in President Obama’s economy, several companies immediately announced a wave of layoffs with many more to follow. During the election, Obama insisted the economy under his watch was improving and that the “private sector was doing fine.” The first lady echoed similar [...]
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America’s Vanishing Wealth Is Government Legacyby Mike McCune – Washington is having a nasty debate over “taxing the wealthy” these days. By good fortune or bad more Americans than ever before don’t have to worry about the ramifications of the debate because they don’t qualify as wealthy even by some Third World countries’ standards. [...]
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by Jack Minor – A local leader with the tea party has taken issue with statements made by former Gen. Colin Powell saying the Tea Party was to blame for the divisiveness in Washington, while omitting any similar criticism of leftist groups. In an interview with ABC’s Christiane Amanpour, Powell was asked about the “poisonous” [...]
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Debt, America’s Recurring NightmareGuest Column: by Mike McCune As former Yankee great Yogi Berra would say, “It’s deja vu all over again.” Did somebody flip the calendar back three and a half months? Wasn’t this (the debt debate) a raging topic then? As was stated when Congress approved a new debt ceiling limit [...]
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