Even though American lifestyle has reverted back to the early 1960’s or late 1950’s, because of the degraded dollar (The buck has lost a third of its value in the last five years), there are still those who live as we lived 100 years ago, or as we might live 50 years from now, if […]

I think the word ’gradualism’ maybe the correct one.  In previous columns I have shown how the dollar has been degraded endlessly by various welfare programs, increased bureaucracy, wars, handouts, Medicare, Social Security, earmarks, and endless spending.  It has happened because politicians have been unable to get re-elected without continual promises of largess from the […]

I don’t really know where this series will stop, because there is so much gobbledygook emanating from the bowels of Washington D.C. and its environs which have become headquarters of the federal government as it has expanded hundreds of percentages from the time of FDR.  As a classic example of a federal agency, formed in […]

In the previous piece, I mentioned that discount selling and bare bones discount stores began in the 1960’s, which they did. Target, K Mart and Wal Mart all got their start in 1962, although Sam Walton, had got started a couple of years earlier in Rogers Arkansas.  Sam used to advertise that everything in his […]

As the presses rolled and the dollar supply increased, those in charge of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and in general those politicians who knew, but didn’t want to admit it, refused to confess that inflation is, as the dictionary says it is, “an increase in the money supply.”  Inflation continued, and prices rose slowly but […]

World War Two Will remain in my mind a long time, after viewing Ken Burn’s “WAR” on PBS!  But after that war, which Truman ended by bombing the smithereens out of the Japs with the world’s first atomic bombs, things got a lot better. Before we go any further, let me point out that even […]

World War Two was tragic.  In watching Ken Burns’ nine part series “War,” one can’t help bringing back all the old feelings of hatred of the Japanese torture, beheading, and starving of their prisoners.  As one watches helpless B-17s plummet to earth after having been shot down by German fighter planes, it’s just so numbing […]

I have a lot of books, and read usually about 40 a year.  I mention this, because when I begin to write about the folly of FDR getting us into WW II, it is a terribly complex and controversial thing to write about, but I’ll try.  FDR is a folk hero to most Democrats and […]

Taxes, taxes, taxes, is mostly what we pay.From state, local, property, FICA, federalincome, utility, stock transfer,utilities, telephone, fuel, etc., taxes consume over 50% of the ordinary income, and far more of a higher one.  Were the total truth be known, if the chain of taxes on all labor, property, fuels, transport, distribution, and materials of everything […]

There are two methods of government’s getting its way with its subjects.  The first if force, and the second is to make them dependent.  Make them think you are the issuer and provider of all that’s wonderful and good.  Make them so dependent, that they can’t continue without government handouts, assistance, and largess…or at least […]