Letter from Grandpa

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Oct 222009
 
Letter from Grandpa

Maybe this will wake some of the younger folks up and maybe some of you have already read it, but this is really hitting the nail on the head as far as I am concerned. John G. is 63 years old and owns a small business. He’s a life-long Republican and sees his dream of [Click here to continue reading the full article...]

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Van-da-alized Health Care Message

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Oct 222009
 
Van-da-alized Health Care Message

This just in… HR 3200 in any form is a crock of horse manure that will provide us with one thing for certain – a larger Government which in turn provides us with more taxes. ((Click the picture for full size view)) Just when you think something has died, someone in Washington will try to [Click here to continue reading the full article...]

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District 1 SC ~ House on Net Neutrality…

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Oct 212009
 

Here is the response to the request for “Net Neutrality” by our Federal Government. The stance I was presenting: Keep the FCC and any and all Federal Government (unelected) agencies out of the “free market” area called the Internet. It is “free market” in the sense that if an ISP (Internet Service Provider) can provide [Click here to continue reading the full article...]

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It ain’t just NY – it’s local!

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Oct 142009
 
It ain't just NY - it's local!

A link sent via a tweet from a friend has a story about a “landmark” commercial housing loan going default, but I get reports of this happening on the local level daily. Our County Council, Town Councils, and State Governments had better wake the heck up and listen to the screams coming from the trenches [Click here to continue reading the full article...]

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Dollar Reaches Breaking Point as Banks Shift Reserves

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Oct 132009
 

Not such great news for us stuck with no competing currency to contend with here in the States. Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) — Central banks flush with record reserves are increasingly snubbing dollars in favor of euros and yen, further pressuring the greenback after its biggest two- quarter rout in almost two decades. Policy makers boosted [Click here to continue reading the full article...]

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Jim Rogers: The Next 10 Years

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Oct 132009
 

This is a great article… I’m moving to China … possibly to live in a bunker. At least that was my inclination after listening to a presentation by Jim Rogers yesterday. Now don’t get me wrong?Mr. Commodities wasn’t all doom and gloom. In fact, his talk was both informative and highly entertaining. But Rogers doesn’t [Click here to continue reading the full article...]

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WSJ: The Young and the Jobless

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Oct 072009
 
WSJ: The Young and the Jobless

The minimum wage hike has driven the wages of teen employees down to $0.00. October 3, 2009 ((Sent via e-mail link from friend – Thx Bill | Re-printed without permission)) Yesterday’s September labor market report was lousy by any measure, with 263,000 lost jobs and the jobless rate climbing to 9.8%. But for one group [Click here to continue reading the full article...]

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When the servant becomes the slave-master.

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Oct 012009
 

In days of old we were taught that being a civil servant meant giving up on a high paying job because you were sacrificing for the public good. Well those days are long gone now folks. Because if you want to make the big bucks, you need a government job and all the insider trading [Click here to continue reading the full article...]

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Henry Brown Jr ~ E-mail Alert

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Sep 282009
 

This Beach Banter comes from an e-mail sent by Mr. Brown’s office today, enjoy Brown & SC Comptroller Agree, Stimulus Money Growing Government Instead of Economy A recent article in the Charleston Regional Business Journal reported that South Carolina State Comptroller Richard Eckstrom is concerned that the stimulus is growing government instead of our economy. [Click here to continue reading the full article...]

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Working Man’s Dead

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Mar 112009
 

In a reply to the MBO op-ed: Employee ‘free’ choice would kill American jobs No poop. But will Washington DC listen? Nope, I doubt it when the V-P has stated at a gathering in FL just a days ago to Unions and Labor: “… MIAMI BEACH — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. gave organized [Click here to continue reading the full article...]

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