January 2012 Blog Posts (17)

Today, 31 states are sponsoring public pension plans with funding ratios that are under 80 percent of what is needed to pay full benefits, says David John, a senior research fellow in retirement security and financial institutions at the Heritage Foundation.

• Funding ratios measure a pension plan's current assets, projected contributions and investment earnings in relation to its predicted benefit…

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Do you know your Rights?

---Rules and Regulations “Without Authority” are not Law---

Ga. Const. Art. III, § V, Para. V & VIII  (2011): ---No local bill or resolution shall become law, except by a majority vote by all members required of the General Assembly. --(Emphasis)

  To become Law every Local Rule and Regulation would have to be presented as a Bill to the State Legislature and passed and signed into law. This does…

More Taxation = More Freedoms Lost          2011-09-24   

When local officials all across our nation pass a new rule or regulations, code officers are necessary to enforce these rules and regulations. More Taxes!  The code officer gets a new car and before long wants a secretary, then the secretary wants an assistant, then more office space. More Taxes!  These Rules and Regulations are not Law; they should never be passed to start with.  As…

FIREARMS – DO YOU HAVE ANY?

We don't have any firearms!  The fact is that most Americans do not know what the term Firearm even means!  I do.  You know me.  I am a finder and a reader of the Law.  The official definition of "firearm" is contained in the National Firearms Act which was codified in Title 26 so that it could be implemented by the Secretary of the Treasury.  The Act was drafted to prevent people from using sawed off or "short barrel" shotguns and rifles, since…

In making the argument that the income gap is an ever-widening disparity, many economists point to studies of the progress of the rich and the poor over the previous decade.  The narrative portrayed by these studies paints the picture of an economic pie that is increasingly dominated by a small few at the expense of the public at large, says Veronique de Rugy, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

However,…

How Stimulus Spending Ruined Buffalo

In his State of the State Address this month, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced $1 billion in incentives to attract new investment to Buffalo.  Too bad Mr. Cuomo ignores the factors that help keep areas like Buffalo inhospitable to new investment -- namely steep tax rates and the high cost of government, says Steven Malanga, a senior fellow at the…

Much reporting on income inequality in America has suggested that the incomes of the rich have been rising, while incomes for the rest of us have been stagnant or even declining.  But that may represent a significant misreading of the data.  Most studies of inequality, including the recent widely reported study by the Congressional Budget Office, rely on IRS-reported taxable income.  This metric is inaccurate for…

Some say the tea party groups are losing their energy. Nothing could be further from the truth. Tea Party Patriots quietly continue to inform, educate and mobilize for the coming election knowing full well this election will determine if our Republic survives as a land of "we the people" or if it continues its light speed trajectory toward socialism.

Tea Party patriots are motivated by the knowledge that we are the hope of the world. The free world is praying for our succsess because…

Conservatives still outnumber liberals 2 to 1, but don’t expect the liberal media to tell the truth…

January 13, 2012

American doctors increasingly find themselves in financial trouble, with some even going broke.  This quiet reality is not isolated to a single area of medicine, but rather is affecting a wide range of doctors, including family physicians, cardiologists and oncologists.  Industry watchers say the trend is worrisome.  Because half of all doctors in the nation operate a private practice, financial insolvency can rob a community of a vital health care resource.  Among the most…

January 11, 2012

Scott Walker won a major victory in his battle against Unions and the Party of Corruption in Wisconsin today. Funny this has not made the headlines on any of the major new outlets.

 Waukesha County, WI - A Waukesha County judge today ruled the Government Accountability Board has to verify signatures on recall petitions against the Governor. The GAB now has to look for bogus names on recall petitions duplicate names and check if a signature is from a valid voter.

GAB…

The budget process is broken, and public interest in reforming it is keen.  But changing the budget rules alone is unlikely to fix our fiscal woes.  Even properly designed constraints, to be effective, would require credible external and internal enforcement backed by public opinion.  This is frustrated by the simple fact that populations have gigantic appetites for both necessities and desires.  A functional budget process should help lawmakers set…

Stabenow must go! As part of the DO NOTHING (Democrat controlled) SENATE, she/they failed to do their Constitutional duty and pass a Budget for 900+ days. When, in December, they finally passed Omnibus spending Bills for FY2012, they ignored "supposed cuts" agreed upon (Debt Ceiling agreement) and "automatic cuts" (Defense/Medicare) if the "Super Committee" failed; which the Democrats sabotaged from the start; spending (yet again) a new largest Budget deficit (though they tried to hide it by…

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 Budgets …… Explained with simple illustration.

Remember the outcry stemming from S&P's down grade of the US credit worthiness?  Well let's have a closer look! This really…