In the last piece, we sort of left off in the 1970’s, when OPEC raised oil prices, and auto imports were increasing. By this time of course, taxes were so high, that moms everywhere had to go to work, in reality, just to pay the taxes. Not only income, but FICA and municipal sales and […]

There is a reason for everything. A reason why jobs are out-sourced, prices go up, dollars go down, manufacturing shifts to China, the stock market varies, and a reason for everything. Some reasons are extended over a long period of time, and many reasons are interlocked, but there is a cause for every effect. I […]

I am not going to rehearse with you the fact that the so called “Trust Fund, hasn’t anything in it but government bonds, and nothing of actual value, other than the “Full faith and credit of the US government,” whatever that is. In other words, the Social Security trust fund is a sham, just like […]

Yeah, I watched it, but I can’t imagine why.  Just another football game with a half time show, consisting of a 64 year old Beetle, who can’t sing, accompanied by a lot of fireworks and teeny boppers who have been rehearsed to do a lot of cute things.  The beetles were popular before these kids […]

It means “forbidden” in German, and there are many “forbiddens” in our lifetime. Adultery, prohibition, and drugs instantly come to mind, but there are others. Did you know that a simple poker game is illegal in most places? Any gambling is illegal, unless of course, it is with a state sponsored lottery, or in places […]