Buds Blog

The Corruption Of Politics

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:23:02 +0000

January 11, 2012: There is an economic and political analysis circulating written by Porter Stansberry, an investment manager in Maryland, who has some pretty startling opinions about corruption in Politics. He says: “One of the biggest factors in the decline of the American civilization is the link between welfare, education, crime and politics.” It has [...]

Obama’s Solution For Saving The Middle Class-Egalitarianism

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:56:04 +0000

December 6, 2011: In a major policy speech in the Kansas town of Osawatomie, President O’bama gave a semi ambiguous talk that laid down a direction for tax policy that would enable Americans to build a nation where everyone receives their fair share. If you worked hard, you’d take enough home to raise your family, [...]

Disparity In Income – Fair Or Unfair?

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:31:29 +0000

October 31, 2011: The popular theme you hear today from some individuals, politicians and the liberal media is that the top 20% of income earners have seen their income grow by more than 250% during the last 25 years while middle class incomes have grown less than 40%. On its surface this fact suggests a [...]

DOWN WITH MERITOCRACY

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:11:44 +0000

October 24, 2011: Recently Newsweek reported that the “Wall Street Occupiers” were just regular folks like you and me who simply have had enough of our unfair economic system, and they went on to say “What’s wrong with that? But surveys taken of the New York “Occupy Wall Street” gang reflected that just 15% of [...]

The Big Lie: Tax Policy Has Made The Wealthy Richer And The Poor Relatively More Poor!

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:02:44 +0000

October 6, 2011: I listened to an interesting debate this morning among guests on a show called “Morning Joe” The Joe is Joe Scarborough, former member of the House of Representatives, and middle of the spectrum Republican. His co-host is Mika Brzezinski, whose father, Zibignieu Brzeinski, is a global political analyst and was once a [...]

“Risk Aversion” Is It An Inevitable Or An Adjustable Worry?

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:35:47 +0000

October 3, 2011: Recently Robert J. Samuelson of the Washington Post wrote an article entitled “Risk Aversion”. In reading the piece, I was reminded of my fear during the summer of 2008 that, if elected, the Obama Presidency would create a wider than usual division of attitudes held among conservative and liberal voters making up [...]

A Game For All Ages

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:49:28 +0000

Here is an article that appeared in the ACBL Bulletin, September Edition. Click on this link to read: Bulletin Digital Article

FIVE PILLARS OF AMERICA’S GREATNESS

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 05:14:27 +0000

Sunday September 4, 2011: On Meet the Press, hosted by DAVID GREGORY, TOM FRIEDMAN, Wall Street Journal columnist, PAUL GIGOT, Historian and author, DORIS KEARNS, Political Strategist MARK MCKINNON, and Representative MAXINE WATERS sat down and had a very interesting discussion regarding where we are as a country, how we got here and how can [...]