Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Why Those Who Oppose Obama Are Mostly White
August 27th, 2010 by JR GriggsIt seems like every time I see someone from the dying media talk about opposition to Obama and his plans, racism is brought into it. I can’t count how many times I have heard the phrase “mostly white”. You can hear it in the argument against the Tea Party, how the Tea Party is racist [...]
Tags: Obama, racism, tea party
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So Why Did We Buy GM?
October 15th, 2009 by JR GriggsWe were told that we had to give GM billions of dollars to stop them from going bankrupt. If we didn’t give them this money hundreds of thousands of people would lose their jobs and businesses would be shut down. Car dealers would lose their lots. It would be catastrophic. So we give them billions [...]
Tags: auto industry, bailout, bankruptcy, gm, Obama
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10 Men Go Out For A Beer (a look at our messed up tax system)
September 16th, 2009 by JR Griggsimage by wili It seems more and more that people today just do not get why our tax system is so messed up. All we hear is how unfair it is that the rich don’t pay more taxes. Somehow we have indoctrinated enough people into thinking that the rich should pay 70% of their income [...]
Tags: beer tax analogy, government, taxes
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Cash 4 Clunkers Nightmare (video)
September 2nd, 2009 by JR GriggsAs the Cash 4 Clunkers Nightmare has just ended, I thought I would try to explain exactly why it will ruin more of our economy. For some reason it has been really difficult to explain how economics work to liberals. They either are really really ignorant or they just don’t care. So although I know [...]
Tags: auto industry, cash 4 clunkers, cash for clunkers, economics, government, Obama, Politics
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How Stupidity and Laziness Can Destroy a Nation
August 26th, 2009 by JR GriggsImage by hiddedevries I get many opportunities to debate political issues with people on a regular basis. I don’t mind, in fact I think it is necessary. What does bother me though is how many people I speak with who are extremely uneducated in the facts. These are the type of people who usually have [...]
Tags: education, government, healthcare, laziness, Obama, Politics, stupidity
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