Government

My recent featured youtube videos from my homepage on SpokeUp.com - Duck Tales Inflation Lesson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_LWQQrpSc4 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as Tarp Advocates: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQfyOr3e-34 Han Solo as a Tarp Advocate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTB1uUpu-2w I'll start posting these every few days here on the blog so you ... read more

As I've been so vocal and adamant against all the forms of corporate welfare (you can call it "bailouts" if you want), I've gotten one question over and over as these two real quotes from my blog comments asked: "What should we do about it?" "What are you, we, going to do about all this?" So many people write to me saying they feel that, now more than ever, they don't have a voice as ... read more

Some thoughts that are kicking off the playoffs in my own head this weekend: * I'll introduce this more formally in an upcoming post this weekend, but I want to let readers know now that after two years of blood, sweat and tears, we're proud to beta-launch SpokeUp.com - The social network for individuals who speak up. You can visit my profile page at http://spokeup.com/pg/profile/cody and ... read more

Here's the intro to the latest bi-weekly RevolutioNewsletter that we published today. CLOCK IS TICKING ON THIS LIMITED TIME OFFER: Subscriptions to RevolutioNewsletter (including full access to RevolutionPicks.com) are $20/month or $200/year. But you can sign up before the end of the year and get your first year of the RevolutioNewsletter and access to ... read more

But give my daddy a job cause he needs one Hes got lots of mouths to feed But if youve got one, I'll have a machine gun So I can scare all the kids down the street Father christmas, give us some money We got no time for your silly toys We'll beat you up if you don't hand it over Give all the toys to the little rich boys -- The Kinks The liars and crooks who run the investment banks ... read more

My own version of Sunday Comics -- How are all these ad-hoc rules and bail outs supposed to create confidence, again?: - [The credit agencies]: "I'm not going to so my math homework. Look at these unsolved problems. Here's a number in mortal combat with another. One of them is going to get subtracted. But why? What will be left of him? If I answered these, it would kill the suspense. ... read more

So the Treasury/Fed/Administration is now giving the last $15 billion of the Wall Street Welfare Fund called TARP to the the to bail out the guys who TOOK RISK by buying stock or lending money to the auto industry, or the "blue collar" folks who work there making six figures every year. Perhaps the single biggest lie that these socialist Republican/Democrat bureaucrats tell you is that they can ... read more

The economy is in bad shape and as I’ve outlined repeatedly, the socialist Republican/Democrats that you guys keep voting into power are not going to be able to fix any of it. Remember always that the only thing that makes stocks go up in the long run is profits. And profits don’t come from the government. They come from you and me. And until the government gets at least ... read more

Here's a winning formula for our society, wouldn't you agree? Let's entrust our politicians to regulate an industry, then have the heads of that industry become the bureaucrats who are entrusted to carry out those regulations, and when things go wrong from all that cronyism, let's have give tons of welfare money to the giant corporations in that industry which can then use that money to donate to ... read more

Freedom, lord what a funny word, We search for it just like some kind of fool, Woman leaving home, man sits there all alone, Little child is paying all the dues -- The Allman Brothers I know most pundits and politicians and the company executives they cater too are all convinced that going into the markets and borrowing hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars that are then going ... read more