Fixing Our Favorite, Federal, Fiduciary Falsehoods
We cannot even begin to address our rising national debt until we stop using false terms, false beliefs and stop ceding power to the Federal government.
Economy
Are You Tired of Winning Yet?
The White House had threatened mass layoffs of federal government employees if Senate Democrats didn’t end their filibuster of the continuing resolution to fund the government, and many of us were wondering when, or if, it was going to happen. From The Wall Street Journal: White House Starts Mass Layoffs of Government Workers Many …
A Self-Inflicted Wound
In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, New York City became a symbol of American resilience, unity, and patriotism. Over the past two decades, however, the city has undergone significant demographic and ideological changes. Leftist activism, illegal immigration, and a generational turnover have taken a hard bite out of the Big Apple’s core political landscape especially among younger voters.
‘Consumers Are Collapsing….Broke….17% Are Putting Groceries on (Layaway)’
US consumers have yet another hyper-interest-inflated debt to throw on the pile. Atop their hyper-interest-inflated mortgages, credit cards, cars, student loans,….
Trump Wants to Privatize Freddie and Fannie – Key Components in the 2008 Global Crash
Let’s examine why the Founding Fathers deemed such things as Freddie and Fannie unconstitutional: Their poisoning of the private sector.
Trump Tower vs. Obama Library; Capitalism defeats communism once again.
The tale of two buildings in Chicago says more about American politics than anything. The building above was built by a developer with his own money raised from banks who trusted him after decades of doing business with him. Please note the beauty and light from the 92-story skyscraper. It stands 1,388 feet tall.
While We Were Chasing Terrorists, China Was Chasing Power
While Uncle Sam was busy hunting down AK-wielding Toyota pickup convoys, Beijing was thinking long game. China didn’t care about al-Qaeda or ISIS. They cared about something bigger: power, influence, and global dominance.
Socialist Organizations Consume Everything – And Then Fail
All socialist organizations eventually exhaust the resources they need to survive. Opportunity and physical resources are moved from the accomplished to the unaccomplished, in the name of welfare and social justice, until everything is consumed.
Dave Ramsey: ‘The FICO (Credit Rating System)…It’s a Bankers’ Scam’
DC’s Cronies place their hands on pieces of paper. And DC traces them with law they write. Everything inside the hands represents the entirety of those businesses and their practices. And DC makes it all legal.
Xi Versus Trump on “World Peace” US actions trump Chinese slogans
Peace is in the air! President Trump campaigned in 2024 as a peacemaker and is delivering the bacon despite US media claims that his only motivation is to secure a Nobel Peace Prize
We’re (Almost) All Self-Delusional About the State of the US
DC is now a $7+ trillion per annum Titanic. And you have a panoply of icebergs from which to choose. About all of which DC is lying to US.
The $14 trillion emergency 25 years of trade deficits add up
The employment figures for August were lame. The good news was federal employment dropped another 15,000. The bad news was manufacturing lost another 12,000 jobs. The unemployment rate was listed at 4.3% but nobody believes that number anymore.
Why We Need a Long-Term National Security Strategy
How and why have China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran not only survived but advanced their strategic priorities at the expense of ours?
Living Behind Enemy Lines In Oregon, Tale #60: Being “Of Color” Immigrants Doesn’t Help Small Business Owners
The Marxist governor kept Oregon’s economy locked down from March 23, 2020 to April 1, 2022, despite the fact that specially trained Covid nurses were beginning to be laid off starting in April 2020 because Oregon did NOT have a Covid crisis.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, and Why It Still Stings in 2025
It is often said that Ayn Rand wrote not with a pen or a typewriter, but more likely, a sledgehammer. Still and all, Dave Cloft walks us through someof her concepts from Atlas shrugged that are still apt today.
Nobody Is Going to Stop This Insanity but Us
Our country is in a financial crisis. We have already amassed $37T in debt, and it’s growing at a rate of $1,000,000 every 20 seconds!
Latest Dashboard Light: Record Home Purchase Cancellations
You are living your life. You know things aren’t great. Your dashboard is lit up like a pinball machine. And the Institutional Obfuscators are all asking you a modified version of the classic question:
“Who are you going to believe? Me – or your lying wallet?”
More Firings, Please
Merry Labor Day! I am full of joy because most Americans no longer trust the federal government. Hooray! The Great Awakening from the Age of Stupidity (aka the last 16 years since Obama became president) has begun. Americans are tired of a federal government that lied about Covid, lied about trannies and lied about illegal …
Labor Day 2025
When I was sixteen, I didn’t get a car or anything like that. My grandmother gave me my late grandfather’s union card. She bequeathed me the legacy of the working man.
From Where Will All This Money Come?
The biggest issue in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia at the moment is more state funding for the Southeast Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, or SEPTA, the mass transit agency which run buses, trains, trollies, and subways in the metropolitan area. SEPTA has a projected $213 million deficit, and has instituted significant service cuts to try …