The U.S. isn’t Greece but . . . It takes twice as many firefighters to put out half as many fires as it did 30 years ago. Fewer fires because of better fire safety is one reason, but another is the dispatch of overqualified firefighters and their vehicles to things that aren’t fires. In Orange County, Calif., only 2% of responses involve... Read more
Archive for the ‘Debt’ Category
$25 Trillion in Debt by 2022
August 6 | Posted by mrossol | Debt, Obama“When Obama took office in 2009 he promised to slow the growth of the debt by cutting the annual deficit in half. At the time he said “We cannot and will not sustain deficits like these without end. Contrary to the prevailing wisdom in Washington these past few years, we cannot simply spend as we please and defer the consequences... Read more
Ryan and the Right
March 29 | Posted by mrossol | Debt, Economics, Tax IssuesToo logical for most on both the right and left to consider… ===== It’s no surprise that the White House has denounced Paul Ryan’s new House budget as the end of welfare-state civilization. The puzzle is why some conservatives are taking shots at the best chance in decades for serious government reform. A pair of freshman Republicans, Tim Huelskamp of Kansas and Justin... Read more
Paul Ryan: The GOP Budget and Americas Future
March 23 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Debt, US DebtYou seen anything better? =========== By PAUL RYAN Less than a year ago, the House of Representatives passed a budget that took on our generation’s greatest domestic challenge: reforming and modernizing government to prevent an explosion of debt from crippling our nation and robbing our children of their future. Absent reform, government programs designed in the middle of the 20th century cannot fulfill their... Read more
Greek crisis .. it’s game theory
February 23 | Posted by mrossol | Debt, EconomicsBy Matthew Lynn LONDON (MarketWatch 2/23/12) — What movie should you watch to try and understand the torturous progress of Europe’s debt crisis? “Zorba the Greek,” maybe? “The Never-Ending Story,” perhaps? In fact, the best thing you could slot into the DVD player would be ‘A Beautiful Mind’, Ron Howard’s well-crafted film about the mathematical genius John Nash. The latest round of... Read more
