I wrote this column 12 years ago.  Unfortunately, there is no “Tea Party” now, although we could use one.  I’d change “Obama” to “Biden,” and otherwise, it’s pretty up to date. “In the 1939 film, “The Wizard of Oz,” Dorothy Gale, (Judy Garland), and her little dog Toto, were swept away from Aunt Em and […]

The first number, “2-33,” is the top 2% of tax payers, who spend 33% of the money.  They may earn it by having a great job.  They may have hit a jackpot in Las Vegas, or in some way earned more than 98% of the rest of the population.  Democrats seem to think they are […]

The word ‘antique,’ and ‘old,’ are very similar.  Antique, usually means valuable old, and just plain old, can mean anything that is just that; old in any condition.  Let’s just do ‘antique’ in this.  There car many forms, sizes, ages, makeups, and values of antique. Some really tiny, and others can weigh thousands of pounds, […]

Paper is an interesting item, and was fist invented about 200 BC, in China.  Today, there’s paper everywhere, even though a lot of it has been substituted by digital.  Therefore, I combine them both, because both have very useful purposes, and their use cannot be denied.  In hard times back in the 20’s and 30’s, […]

I hope your 2022 was successful, but Republicans really took a severe blow, thanks to ex-president Donald Trump.  There are a lot of Republicans, who still believe that Trump had the election ‘stolen’ from him, even though he still says that he ‘won it by a landslide,’ which we all wish were true.  Biden and […]

I hope your Christmas was great! Poor little Italy.  They only had 94,000 illegals invading them last year, compared to our close to five million this year so far. Thanks to Democrats, some Republicans, and Joe Biden. Why do they come here?  Admittedly, part of the reason is because their home nation is ruled by […]

I’m not certain I ever compared the two, but there seems to me that virtually all things we buy, rent, contribute to, use, wear, eat, drive, and I suspect the list is endless, involves “profit.”  Without profit, nothing would ever be grown, manufactured, bought, sold, eaten, worn, delivered, or any verb you can imagine.  None […]

I hate debt!  I have none, and if I did, I think I would not sleep well, and do everything in my power to pay it off.  I have never had a savings account either.  Before I started doing precious metals in November of 1977, I spent money as fast as I earned it.  I […]

1974, was a whole lot different than 2022.  In 1964, the U.S. stopped making 90% silver halves, quarters, and dimes.  Want to know how much silver each one had?  Silver dimes had .07234 of an ounce of silver.  Silver quarters, had .18084 of an ounce of silver, and the silver half dollar had .36169 of […]

‘Medium of exchange, ‘is just another way of saying ‘money.’  Actually, ‘money,’ started with barter.  Bartering equal valued things for equal, was obviously matters of opinion of value. Each side raised the value of theirs and the opposite also raised theirs, so it became necessary to find a medium of exchange, using a coin or […]