By: mlgoodell (Diary)  |  September 20th at 12:59 PM  | 

http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com President Hosni Mubarack Obama (D-Chi) has decided to preempt the so-called Congressional Debt Supercommittee by announcing whatever they decide, their deficit reduction plan had better include $1.5 trillion dollars in new taxes. While declaring that his proposal “is not class warfare,” Obama also noted that “Middle-class families shouldn’t pay higher taxes than millionaires and billionaires.” Since the President knows middle class families don’t pay | Read More »

By: mlgoodell (Diary)  |  August 24th at 05:44 PM  | 

A Stuttering Economy by Michael Goodell http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com The otherwise astute Gerald F. Seib, in a Capital Journal post in yesterday’s “Wall Street Journal,” entitled, “Democrats Have Reason to Be Nervous About 2012,” wrote this curious line, “Economic trend lines have turned downward at precisely the wrong time for a president preparing to seek reelection.” One can’t help which president he is referring to. It can’t | Read More »

By: mlgoodell (Diary)  |  August 8th at 12:55 PM  | 

http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com A friend forwarded an email called Federal Budget 101 which explains our fiscal crisis with stunning clarity, in terms so simple even a public employee union member could understand it. The author, an engineer, provided the basic numbers: .        Federal Revenues:     $2,170,000,000,000 .        Federal Budget:      $3,820,000,000,000 .        Budget Deficit:      $1,650,000,000,000 .        National Debt:            $14,271,000,000,000 .        Amount cut | Read More »

By: mlgoodell (Diary)  |  August 2nd at 04:45 PM  | 

http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com The other day Bob Schieffer, who has what passes for gravitas in this age of cultural decline, who works for some television station or other, quoted a slur he stole from a Facebook follower, which pretty much sums up how pathetic our society has become. “Why are Republicans allowing freshman congressmen to control this debate?” Schieffer quoted the social media maven. “It’s like letting | Read More »

By: mlgoodell (Diary)  |  July 25th at 04:43 PM  | 

http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com Word has it that the Republicans are losing the debt ceiling fight. According to some polls, while most Americans are opposed to raising the debt ceiling, they blame Republicans for failing to raise the debt ceiling. These polls also show that, having voted for Republicans in response to what was generally agreed to be out-of-control spending, the voters are angry at Republicans for attacking | Read More »

By: mlgoodell (Diary)  |  July 13th at 04:42 PM  | 

http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com Government spending is out of control in the United States. It has been for decades. Everyone knows this, but no one wants to do the hard work of trying to solve the problem. Faced with the need to raise the debt ceiling, some Republicans, despairing of ever seeing Senate Democrats fulfill their constitutional requirements to put forth a budget, saw this as an opportunity | Read More »

By: mlgoodell (Diary)  |  June 27th at 02:17 PM  | 

http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com If the title evokes memories of an old rock standard, that’s okay, because that sums up my feelings lately–a little bit moody and a whole lot of the blues. Each day, it seems, another bit of light in my life flickers and begins to die. The name Miniver Cheevy is often on my lips and almost always on my mind. The things I most | Read More »

By: mlgoodell (Diary)  |  May 27th at 01:13 PM  | 

http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com During last month’s  bizarrely partisan ambush of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis), President Hosni Obama (D-Chi) said the Republican budget plan would “end Medicare as we know it.” Since then, Democrats have been demagoging seniors, blatantly lying, and jeopardizing national security, in a naked bid to reclaim control of the House of Representatives. Obviously Ryan’s plan, which isn’t scheduled to begin for ten years, won’t | Read More »

By: mlgoodell (Diary)  |  May 5th at 12:25 PM  | 

http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com His HuffPo hagiographers notwithstanding, President Barack Obama did not plan the mission to take out Osama bin Laden. And rightfully so. He has no military experience, and therefore, no standing, to directly plan a combat mission. He would have needlessly and recklessly endangered American soldiers’ lives if he had. The sad thing is, his abject supporters had no reason to give voice to such | Read More »

By: mlgoodell (Diary)  |  April 20th at 03:59 PM  | 

http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com Tavis Smiley, a host on the as yet still-funded PBS, recently called the 2011 Budget agreement an immoral document. If he had been referring to the last Congress’ blatant abdication of duty in failing, for crass political purposes, to even propose a 2011 budget, he would have been right. Unfortunately, he was referring to the attempt to inject some fiscal sanity into the federal | Read More »