Two years ago, at just about this point on the pre-election calendar, people of all ages were wearing pins , donning T-shirts and slapping stickers on their cars in support of the idea of hope and change as the battle cry for fixing whatever was wrong with America.
Today, there is growing anger among many regarding [...]
When you look at the research, it’s hard to believe that the people at home actually voted for those who were sent to the nation’s capital to represent the voters’ interests. Polling shows 57% of the sample believe the party in power has an agenda that is too extreme. Put another way, 56% say Congress [...]
We worked, we saved and we believed retirement could be a relatively stable period for us. Boy, were we wrong. The lose of value in our pension accounts, low returns on the investments we still had, home prices falling, freezing of Social Security benefits and severe cut backs in Medicare add up to fear of [...]
American citizens are hopping mad with government, in their cities, states and with the federal government in Washington. While 68% of those polled think the political class doesn’t care about what the public thinks, about the same number of politicians’ claim the country is on the right track. And, elected officials are held in such [...]
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Stimulus spending did not create the new jobs as promised, but it did add nearly a trillion dollars to the country’s deepening deficit. Other efforts to reduce unemployment have been spectacularly unsuccessful. The only significant drop in the numbers came from the government hiring of temporary workers to conduct the census. What will [...]
