Posts Tagged ‘michael mccune’

May 13, 2010

The Rant

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 [...]

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May 6, 2010

The Rant

By Michael McCune President Barack Obama has assembled a high-powered, well-connected, 18-member bipartisan economic panel to address the country’s fiscal debt. Without doing something positive about this problem, it is a forgone conclusion in Washington that Americans’ standard of living will take an abrupt nose-dive. As with any budget, deficits can be cut two ways, raise income or trim expenses. [...]

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Apr 23, 2010

“The Rant”

By Michael McCune I was fortunate enough to have been born to parents who had experienced the Great Depression and World War II. They educated me in the basics of this country and how to build and maintain a free republic. Both died before they could see the state of our country today. They hammered [...]

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Apr 8, 2010

Accounting tricks

by Michael McCune for the Greeley Gazette I’ve been trying to unravel the various reports coming from our elected government, the Federal Reserve and the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding the nation’s banking system’s financial situation and it isn’t very good. While most eyes are focused on the high unemployment rate, accounting tricks have left [...]

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