There is much talk in Washington suggesting that the Federal Government should take over businesses and social programs based on the assumption that…
equality of results is essential to the success of everyday Americans
equality of opportunity - “the pursuit of happiness” - is inappropriate for the 21st century
An economics professor once faced a group of students [...]
Over the past decade or so, the fallacy that home equity should be “harvested” by means of mortgage refinancing or home equity loans and converted into equity in some other investment has been foisted upon Americans as a legitimate financial strategy.
The most common presentation of these schemes suggests that home equity should be redirected into what some advisors call ”investment grade life insurance.” Other schemes [...]
Planning vs. Management
The College for Financial Planning and the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. will likely object to the statement that their business is oxymoronic. They might be justified. Let me elaborate.
The Oxford Dictionary defines an oxymoron as “a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.” Claiming that financial [...]
The primary aim of this blog is to inform and educate Americans about ways to create and manage personal economies that thrive in good times and bad.
Unfortunately, in 2009 the Federal Government and the US Congress pose the greatest threat to our collective financial security. Their greed for the accretion of power and unparalleled confiscation [...]
No matter what President Obama says and regardless of his eloquence saying it, it would be a dire mistake, completely lacking in common sense, wisdom, and - mostly - regard for the US Constitution, for “We the People” to allow or accept any health care or health insurance program created by the US Congress and [...]
“The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Cometakes the form of a grim spectre, robed in black, who does not speak and whose body is entirely hidden except for one pointing hand. This spirit frightens Scrooge more than the others, and harrows him with a vision of a future Christmas with the Cratchit family bereft of [...]
“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” Cool Hand Luke, 1967
The US Congress and the Executive Branch of the US government are not listening to America. America wants “soulutions” to problems not government take-overs.
Put this simple diagram of a Universal Health Care Program, which is being ignored in DC, in the hands of every [...]
Dennis Prager recently commented that he has been carrying American values around in his pocket for his entire adult life. To clarify he reminded his audience that those values appear on the coins and currency of the United States: Liberty, E Pluribus Unum, In God We Trust. He referred to these values as the American Trinity.
These observations seem [...]
Ron Jennings, a successful Money for Life Guide in West Chester, Ohio, emailed this Adrian Rogers quote. While you are reading it, reflect on the policies and practices of the federal government during the Great Depression.
“You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without [...]
Change We can Believe In?
NOT!
Chains We Will Grieve In?
INDEED!
Chains on the Citizens of America?
Billions in Bank Bailouts that Bombed.
Uber-Billions in Un-stimulating Stimulus.
Trillions in Takeovers of the Auto Industry and the Health Care Industry.
Trillions in Taxes On the Engines of Job Creation Diverted to Bumbling Bureaucrats
Trillions Upon Trillions of Debt to Foreign Governments and Oil Cartels imposed on Unborn [...]
