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Ron Paul video: Wall Street Gains, Main Street Pains
Bailed out banks are paying out record $140 BILLION in BONUS. “Wall Street pulls the strings in Washington” 10/20/2009 Ron Paul talks Economics on CNN American Morning ...
President Obama Stimulus Jobs
Our government has spent some big bucks to get this economy restarted. Originally, the claims that Obama and his economic advisers made earlier this year to get this stimulus package passed was that it would create or save 2 million, 3 million, and...
The U.S. Economy is Unsustainable
This video is from over a year ago. The amazing thing is it is probably more of a current issue now than ever. Head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) David Walker says that the U.S. economy is unsustainable and as the baby boomer ...
How high will gold go up?
I am not in the stock market right now, although I did buy some Gold ETFs much earlier. What I don’t really understand is that stocks, oil and gold are all going up at the same time. I thought stocks had an inverse relationship with oil and...
Cop assaults 15-year-old special needs student
In every profession there are always good people and bad people. In some professions we hold the people in them to a higher standard like law enforcement. The good thing is we have cameras that capture any abuses that normally would go unconteste...
Rising anti-war sentiment against the 8 year war in Afghanistan
It’s no secret that under the current stress or our Great Recession, most Americans no longer have any patience on wasting our resources overseas when we can’t even help our own citizens get a job or keep their house. Most Americans rec...
Underground cities: Dark Days video
I blogged about the Las Vegas underground city a couple of weeks ago. That reminded me of an old video documentary I had seen a few years back by Marc Singer called Dark Days. When the economy goes to pot and more people become homeless, the inst...
PBS Frontline – Obama’s War in Afghanistan
Thank goodness for technology and public funded television. I watched this video from PBS Frontline to get a better understanding of what is going on. Many people talk and think that our soldiers are fighting to protect our freedom, but when you ...
Ron Paul on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Ron Paul promoting his book “End the Fed”. This video is pretty good and Jon Stewart allows him to speak and answer the questions. Enjoy! Ron Paul on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart...
Charlie Sheen 9/11 truther video very interesting
Charlie Sheen is now a “truther” and feels a better investigation should be done on the events of the 9/11 tragedy. This short video was actually done well. Check it out. Reported by Charlie Sheen...
The recession is finally over. Whew, thank goodness.
At least that is what some economists are saying. Even some economists that predicted that the recession was coming back in 2007. They may be right. NEW YORK (Fortune) – When economist Dennis Gartman told subscribers of his newsletter in ...
Bill Clinton’s mad skills succeed in N. Korea where U.S. govt failed.
This is amazing that Bill Clinton was able to negotiate the 2 condemned American reporters from North Korea. It seemed like he just went over and asked with respect and politeness and tada! That is insane, but the results are excellent. I suspect...
Nine Lenders That Got Bailout Money paid at Least $1 Million Each to 5,000 Employees
Wall Street Bonuses exceed Profit Most Americans do not support the fraudulent bailouts passed under both the Bush and the Obama administrations. That is why there is always an uproar when we learn where some of the money went even though these c...
Obama troop withdrawal videos
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how pricey are these videos? Sometimes a politician is just a politician. People forget what they were once promised or heard, but in the internet age all you have to do is google it and pow, you have ...
Please listen to the U.S. Adviser’s Blunt Memo on Iraq: Time ‘to Go Home’
OK, you know I have been against this war from the beginning. I never bought in to the propaganda the media was feeding Americans that felt justified in invading Iraq. Frankly, if you thought or still think it was the right thing to do for what...
Audit the Fed – HR 1207 and S 604
There is a concerted effort to audit the Federal Reserve which is a bill sponsored by Ron Paul and has great support. Ben Bernanke is doing some public relations campaign to prevent it. Why do they want to keep everything a secret? Especially whe...
Lost Vegas: Vanguard
I think there are many cities experiencing the same thing as Las Vegas. Anyplace where there is high foreclosures will resemble the troubles this city is going through. Cities all over in California, Arizona, Florida, and other states with high u...
New health care reform plan is to rob from the poor to pay for everyone
Is it time to see where this money will come from to pay for health care for everyone? During the campaign, Obama made it sound like the program would pay for itself through incredible savings found from becoming a more efficient health care system...
Freddie Mac bailout is a perpetual money pit. sigh.
It is pretty obvious this failed venture to prop up an insolvent company isn’t working. Why does the Obama administration continue to throw taxpayer money away? Freddie Mac needs another $6.1B in aid Total bailout comes to $51.7 billion as mort...
Stock market up, economy down
When I went to college, the finance professors taught us that the stock market is suppose to be an indicator of the future of the economy. It’s been 20 years since I took that basic finance course. From what I have observed, there is no tru...
Swine flu starting to get scary
I don’t know how bad this epidemic is going to get, but it seems everyday they are finding more people in more countries affected. Mexico is less than a 2 hour drive for me and that is where they think it may have broken out. When the bird fl...
Housing crisis status update
If you watch main street media or listen to the government and its economic cheer-leading experts, then you would think that we were past the bottom of this economic cycle and things will get better in the next quarter or two. They like to point to...
Consititutional rights and police states
When Rodney King was beat up by multiple cops with other cops watching on the sideline, many people were shocked to see the brutal violence on TV because they have never seen it or it was because the cops were the bad guys or both. I have actually be...
Foreclosures will continue to increase and economy will get worse
I can’t understand how these experts are calling the end of the recession this year. It definitely has been a long recession at 18 months, but there is no true report or indicator that I think shows the bottom. All the major reports comin...
Bank stress tests stressing out the Obama administration
We are definitely in some weird times. There seems to be a movement only to hide the truth. Yesterday, Wells Fargo announced record earnings even though we just gave them $25 billion 3 months ago. Yet today, all the other banks are underwater b...
Ron Paul explains why TARP was wrong in the first place
I wasn’t always a Ron Paul fan. I thought he was smart when I first heard of him a few years ago, but I was a Democrat at the time and just didn’t agree with most of his conservative Republican values. I am now a registered Independ...
What the wasteful government FRAUD bailouts cost US taxpayers? $79,646 per household!
I think we have all become numb to the numbers that both the BUSH and OBAMA administrations have wasted on the government sponsored bailouts and stimulus bills. First of all, when you talk in billions and trillions it is a meaningless number and ha...
The latest layoffs: teachers and school employees
Just like firemen and policemen, teachers are necessary for communities to thrive. In my home state of California, one of the biggest cities just announced a major layoff. LA Times: L.A. Unified board OKs layoff notices to about 9,000 employees. ...
Understanding the Bush-Obama Depression 2.0
We may not want to hear it but I now believe those bloggers who predicted we would go into a depression. I believe this severe recession started by Bush will develop into a depression under Obama. There is no standard definition of this economic ...
Tent Cities in America-signs of a Depression
Recently, I watched Lisa Ling on the Oprah show covering the tent cities popping up all over America. We have always had a homeless problem even during our booming years, but now that the economy is busted, we are seeing the number of homeless grow...
