Fast Food Government

By: Frederick (Diary)  |  April 5th at 05:33 PM  | 

I was speaking with a co-worker the other day as she explained her issues with her new mortgage lender. It seems that her previous lender sold her loan, and now it has taken several months and multiple phone calls to get her payment plan set back up the way she wanted it before. It occurred to me awhile later that her frustration explains an awful | Read More »

A battle, not the war

By: Frederick (Diary)  |  November 16th at 05:55 PM  | 

As of now, we have won nothing.  The 2012 election was merely one battle in a war of ideologies, and those who call themselves our allies aren’t always fighting with us. Mitch McConnell and other Senate GOP leaders had to be bullied into embracing the “no earmarks” pledge, and others still don’t get it.  It’s not that earmarks represent a huge portion of Federal spending; | Read More »