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More on the cost of reality
I love that the debate over stripping public unions of the collective bargaining rights has degenerated into an argument, essentially, about protecting union negotiated entitlements. In embracing this debate, both sides have distracted themselves from reality again–that is, the thing … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Education, Government, Nations, News, Politics, Society, Spending, United States, World Watch
Tagged Budgets, crises, Debates, deficits, disasters, failures, Insolvency, missing the point, money, Ohio, partisan, Politics, unions, Wisconsin
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Learning from my mistakes
One of the advantages of reading weblogs written by honest people is that they tend to share their experiences, even when they happen to be negative or embarrassing. I try to do that very thing with my weblog, and I do … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Society
Tagged banks, credit cards, debit cards, fraud, identity theft, mistakes, money, Theft
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The razor’s edge
Last January, I started an experiment to see how many times I could use a single disposable razor blade before it was unusable. I discovered several years ago that the thing most likely to cause the blade to become dull … Continue reading
Posted in Amatuer, Economy, Preparedness, Quid Facis, Science and Technology
Tagged blades, Experiments, frugality, money, razor, shaving, success
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The stimulus is over
So, now it hits the fan. You see, the about $1 trillion the Obama administration spent over the past two years stimulating the economy had exactly the effect people who try to understand the actual economy expected it to: those … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Government, Nations, Philosophy, Politics, Society, Spending, United States, World Watch
Tagged Americans, Business, Control, Economy, Future, Government, jobs, money, Spending, stimulus, taxes
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