by altha-admin | Aug 7, 2011 | Articles
Today's economists attack without respite the prodigal ways of Republican rule during the Bush Administration. True, Republican one-party government never let a crisis go to waste, turning the attacks on 9-11 to grant military-minded minions in Congress free reign...
by altha-admin | Aug 7, 2011 | Articles
Does anyone really think that credit ratings in faraway China, a nation servicing much of the United States' debt, or the precipitous AAA to AA+ downgrade by Standard and Poor's will set off a firestorm of compromise throughout the halls of Congress?If elected...
by altha-admin | Aug 7, 2011 | Articles
The proverb goes: "Can you draw blood from a turnip, or stone?" Yet the Russian Prime Minister Vladmir Putin contents himself to lambaste the United States as a blood-sucking vampire leeching of the global economy. His anemic rationale: "They are living...
by altha-admin | Aug 7, 2011 | Articles
The American People's ire against Congress has a reached a record high of 82%, which is right where it should be.We should not like government. We must respect its necessary role in our lives, yet we should not pride ourselves on relying on its hand-outs while...
by altha-admin | Aug 7, 2011 | Articles
Admiral Mike Mullen is a class act all the way.Acknowledging the need for fiscal discipline, he submits that the nation will have to make cuts to the military. Deficit Reduction is not only in the best interests of the United States domestically, but it is a certain...
by altha-admin | Aug 7, 2011 | Articles
What does Washington do when big decisions need to be made but no one wants to make them? Set up an ad hoc committee! Have a selected bunch of experts, plus a balance of politicians from both sides of the aisle, bunch together and hunch over the same deleterious...
