Interesting article on USA Today about the “cash for clunkers” program. What did people use the program for? To upgrade their pickup trucks and SUVs. FAIL. AP reports that for 8,200 deals — the most common — buyers traded in their old Ford 150 pickups for new Ford 150 pickups. Fuel economy for the new [...]
Read more →Peter Schiff: How He Would Fix America I don’t know how anyone can disagree with all that. And the ones who agree have started a grassroots campaign asking him to run for U.S. Senate. It’s at www.schiff2010.com.
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Read more →The more I read, the more I like this guy. Here’s Peter Schiff in US News talking about how dumb it is for the government to be trying to create the illusion of value in the real estate market: “They are trying to maintain high home prices by keeping interest rates low. That’s how they [...]
Read more →Our new president will likely soon sign the biggest financial swindle ever put over by the US government on its people. If you want to know where your money is going, you may want to ReadTheStimulus.org It’s searchable, too. Type in “highway” or “bridge” or whatever floats your boat and see what they’re spending money [...]
Read more →In tough times like this, it seems some of our fellow Tri-Citians have found a novel way of making a few extra bucks: by turning in criminals. So far this year, Crime Stoppers has paid out $3,800 in rewards to 20 people, with $1,400 given just in October and November, said Mike Blatman, the law [...]
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