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The Key To Downsizing Govt

April 9, 2014 • Top Story • 1260

The key to downsizing government lies in guys like Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) and the reports he puts out. The Senator puts out two annual reports that are of particular note, the Wastebook and the Duplication Report. While the Wastebook is a wealth of stupid spending and questionable grant programs, the Duplication Report is a outline of the multiple different governmental agencies doing the same thing. To date, the retiring Senator and the rest of the non-partisans at the Government Accountability Office have found 188 areas where the fat could be trimmed and save US tens of billions of dollars, a year. But that’d make too much sense.

Links

-> 10 Agencies, One Job

-> 10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell

-> Survey: US Sees Sharpest Health Insurance Premium Increases in Years

-> IRS: 90 Percent of Confused Taxpayers Seek Help in Preparing Their Returns

-> Special Interests Say Special Interests Are Buying the 2014 Election

-> Global Warming Scare Tactics

-> Blame Your Parents for Your Procrastinating Ways

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Hypocritical Wealth

April 8, 2014 • Top Story • 6189

The Left wants you to believe that they are party of the poor, working class and that the Right is bunch of out of touch, billionaires. Ha. The truth is, both sides are out of touch, wealthy hypocrites, and so our their donors. If you picked, at random, a Super PAC on either side of the aisle, odds are they have at least one billionaire on their donor list. Next time you see a campaign ad telling candidate ‘A’ is out of touch and candidate ‘B’ is a working class American, remember where the money to broadcast that ad came from.

Links

-> The Left’s “Billionaire Outsider” Hypocrisy

-> 10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell

-> ‘Tax Freedom Day’ Falls Three Days Later This Year

-> S&P 500 Erases 2014 Gain As Stocks Close Lower For Third Day

-> Citi Is Bracing to Miss a Profit Target

-> ‘Starving’ UConn Player Has ‘Unlimited Access’ Dining Opportunity

-> Stop Being So Nice. It’s Hurting Your Company

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Cork It On The Jobs Celebration

April 7, 2014 • Top Story • 1347

The Jobs Report came out last Friday and it’s surprising there wasn’t another Rose Garden victory lap by the Commander & Chief. Maybe he knows the truth behind the numbers? The truth is, that even though we hit ‘milestones’ like exceeding the number of private-sector jobs in America just before the recession took hold, we are WAY behind any true growth. In reality – since the recession began to drag US down, we’ve added 11,000 total jobs, but the labor force has grown by 12 million. If we were on leaking ship we’d be fish food by now.

Links

-> Hold The Champagne On That Jobs Report

-> $6 Billion Goes Missing at State Department

-> 10 Things In Tech You Need To Know This Morning

-> Vice President Joe Biden’s Twitter Account Is Getting New Life

-> Pelosi on Democrats’ Budget: ‘Growth Will Take Us to Balance’

-> This Week’s: Awesome Tech Can’t Buy Yet

-> The Case for Staying Private (and Why IPOs Are Overrated)

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When The Govt Chooses Not To Watch You

April 4, 2014 • Top Story • 1607

By now we’ve all heard about the big, bad NSA snooping on our phone calls and skimming our emails, but there’s is a bit of oversight (or lack there of) that is much more concerning. In Iowa, the powers that be have actively chosen to hand over your tax dollars to citizens they deem worthy, in return, those citizens must prove absolutely nothing. They don’t have to account for what they spend, where they spend it, or what they spend it on. You’d think that would be the most acceptable use of oversight in this country, but you’d be wrong.

Links

-> What Oversight? Iowa Wont Track Welfare Card Use

-> Obama Champion of Change Amnesty Advocate Indicted For Immigration Fraud

-> MF Global’s Customers To Get Full Repayment Worth $6.7B In Final Payout

-> The Cultivation of Shame

-> It’s a Loss in Md: 73K Lose Insurance; 60K Enroll on Exchange

-> These Maps Show That Android Is For People With Less Money

-> 3 Unexpected (and Easy) Ways to Cut Travel Costs

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Cashing In on Free Speech

April 3, 2014 • Top Story • 1687

The Supreme Court loosened the reigns on campaign donations limits for individuals this week, eliminating the aggregate cap, all the in the name of Free Speech. While they may have a point, this ruling will not be good for politics, at least not for a while. This ruling will certainly allow the super rich to have a super influence on who is elected to what office, but it will eventually lead to diminished contributions and political corruption. You see, people with considerable wealth don’t like to give up their money without the promise of a great return, and they certainly don’t want to spend lots of it. So here are two plausible effects of eliminating contribution caps: 1) The cost of influencing an election becomes SO expensive that the ultra wealthy themselves decided it is not worth wasting their money when a smart tax lawyer can get them the same return. 2) As the cost of running a campaign skyrockets, more and more soulless politicians will be overcome by greed and get in trouble taking from their own coffers. But hey, Free Speech isn’t really free, right?

Photo via TradingAcademy.com

Links

-> Supreme Court Loosens the Reins on Campaign Cash

-> 10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell

-> The Minimum Wage Debate Starts to Boil

-> Is High-Frequency Trading a Digital Age Menace?

-> Amazon Announces A New Streaming Box

-> 5 Top China Stocks With Great Long-Term Fundamentals

-> 3 Ways to Make Your Marketing Stick

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Free Unfairness From Political Foolishness

April 2, 2014 • Top Story • 1457

Sen Dick Durbin (D-IL) was on the Senate floor yesterday ranting about the dangers of ‘Free Enterprise.’ The Senator from the Land of Lincoln said ‘”The free enterprise system is a strong system,” he said, but it “created unfairness and injustice when it came to health care.” He went on to say that the government needed to step in to fix the problems and pointed to the ‘success’ of Obamacare. Unfairness? Injustice? What is fair about taking away choice? What is just about dictating where money is spent? The Senator is certainly living up to his name.

Links

-> Dick Durbin Criticizes Free Enterprise: ‘Created Unfairness and Injustice’

-> 10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell

-> The Progressive End to Working Your Way Through College

-> Hong Kong Buyers Send London Real Estate Soaring

-> Facebook CEO Reaps $3.3B Gain From Stock Options

-> The 50 Most Dominant Athletes Alive

-> The Most Innovative Cities in America

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Model UN Scare Tactics

April 1, 2014 • Top Story • 1335

The United Nations is at it again, trying to scare US and the rest of the world into taxation. This week the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is releasing a doomsday report that claims global warming will end US all. But there is hope, if we allow the UN to tax US and allow them to regulate our emissions. Except, the IPCC lies. According to a review of the IPCC’s current and previous reports by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), the IPCC omit and tweaks data to only prove their agenda. Beware the scary UN.

Links

> UN Scare Tactics: Pay Taxes Or Perish

-> 10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell

-> Lois Lerner Could Go to Jail

-> Women Now 33% More Likely Than Men to Earn College Degrees

–> What Is ‘Yellen-esque’?

-> Jennifer Rubin’s Amazingly Dishonest Rand Paul Hit Piece

-> 6 Ways Selling Will Change by 2024

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Thoughts on Market Leninism

March 31, 2014 • Top Story • 1220

Politics in America is a broken, complicated mess, so much so that barely half of all Americans show up to vote when it matters and less than 1 in 5 when the stakes aren’t so high. But when we do show up, the guys we elect only make things worse and it’s this disenfranchisement makes lets terrible alternatives look better. Alternatives like ‘Market Leninism’, wherein freedoms are traded for the ‘security’ of an omnipotent nanny state. But the joke is on US, the nanny state is run by the same ineffective buffoons that sold us down the river.

Links

-> America’s Poisonous Politics & ‘Market Leninism’

-> 10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell

-> ‘Obamacare hasn’t put a dent in number of unisrued.’

-> Bipartisan Pitch: Top 10 Reasons to Approve the Keystone XL Pipeline

-> For Bitcoin, Lessons In The History Of Failed Currencies

-> Awesome Tech You Can’t Buy Yet

-> Real Leadership Means Owning Your Disasters

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WTF-EPA

March 28, 2014 • Top Story • 1488

The EPA is ripping US off. The EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) Ozone Review Panel apparently suffers from MASSIVE conflicts of interest. This blackhole of bureaucracy at the EPA reviews grants and ‘scientific’ proposals to decide whether or not they are worthy of you tax dollars. The problem? The reviewers are reviewing their own work! It’s one greedy hand washing the other, it’s no wonder we waste so much money on ‘green’ energy.

Links

-> EPA’s ‘Independent’ Science Advisers Get Government Grants, ‘Peer Review’ Own Work

-> 10 Things You Need To Know Before the Opening Bell

-> Energy Boom Spurs Growth West of The Mississippi

-> Postal Service Employees Use Travel Cards to Gamble, Pay Bills and Go Bowling

-> There’s An Internal Correction Happening In The Stock Market

-> DOJ Splitting Hairs

-> Why LinkedIn’s New Analytics Tools Are Actually Helpful

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You Don’t Know Dick

March 27, 2014 • Top Story • 1235

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin (R) has made some news lately regarding his condemnation of Vladimir Putin, but there is more to Dick than timely fervor over Ukraine, a lot more. For instance, Dick has voted 3 times to increase federal spending to fight ‘Global Warming’ and has himself sponsored legislation to establish a UN ‘Climate Change Convention.’ Durbin has also voted numerous times to force companies to fund green energy initiatives. In Durbin’s 30 years in office, a span that George Washington go to war over, the debt in this nation has skyrocketed, education levels have plummeted, and healthcare has become a joke. See Dick, see Dick run, see Dick run this country into the ground. Bad Dick.

Links

-> On The Record: Dick Durbin Makes Bad Choices

-> 10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell

-> Citigroup Fails Fed Stress Test as Goldman, BofA Alter Plans

-> Beating The Obamacare ‘Liberty Tax’

-> I.R.S. Takes a Position on Bitcoin: It’s Property

-> 63% of Federal Workers Earning $100K+ Are Men

-> How to Tell If Stress Is Destroying Your Performance

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