MORT ZUCKERMAN’s latest piece in the NY Daily News is a bit frightening. And if you care about the future of the United States it’s [sadly] a must read. His opinion piece “Drowning in Debt: Obama’s Spending and Borrowing Leaves U.S. Gasping for Air” is filled with conservative financial projections that will knock your socks [...]]]>

MORT ZUCKERMAN’s latest piece in the NY Daily News is a bit frightening. And if you care about the future of the United States it’s [sadly] a must read. His opinion piece “Drowning in Debt: Obama’s Spending and Borrowing Leaves U.S. Gasping for Air” is filled with conservative financial projections that will knock your socks off. Want to know what happens when the US’s skyrocketing debt meets the perfect storm of boomers cashing in on Medicare and Social Security? Plan on your taxes going up a bit. Quite a bit.

These are real hard questions that demand tough solutions. Read it, and than weigh in with your comments…

link: Drowning in Debt: Obama’s Spending and Borrowing Leaves U.S. Gasping for Air (NY Daily News)

As a Libertarian, I was really pleased to see FastCompany’s piece about ‘How High-Profile CEOs Could Revitalize the Libertarian Party.’ Very on point! With the Republicans having lost it during the Bush years and the Dems still fumbling about, it’s high time for a pragmatic party of fiscal conservancy + individual rights + small government! -B

link: How [...]]]>

As a Libertarian, I was really pleased to see FastCompany’s piece about ‘How High-Profile CEOs Could Revitalize the Libertarian Party.’ Very on point! With the Republicans having lost it during the Bush years and the Dems still fumbling about, it’s high time for a pragmatic party of fiscal conservancy + individual rights + small government! -B

link: How High-Profile CEOs Could Revitalize the Libertarian Party (FastCompany)

Brilliantly depressing article in the latest GQ by former Bush White House speechwriter Matt Latimer… Suppose I’m going to have to buy his new book now.

“Matt Latimer worked as one of Dubya’s speechwriters during the president’s final twenty-two months in office. He was there to help sell the surge to a skeptical public. He was [...]]]>

Brilliantly depressing article in the latest GQ by former Bush White House speechwriter Matt Latimer… Suppose I’m going to have to buy his new book now.

“Matt Latimer worked as one of Dubya’s speechwriters during the president’s final twenty-two months in office. He was there to help sell the surge to a skeptical public. He was there as we pretended that the fundamentals of the economy were strong. And he was there to see a president who failed to grasp his own $700 billion bailout package—even as he was pitching it to the American public on live TV. A disillusioned insider reveals for the first time just how messy things got.”

LINK: ME TALK PRESIDENTIAL ONE DAY, GQ

A new report just came out naming New York State’s MONROE COUNTY (where I live) as the second-highest taxes in the nation. Yet another reason Governor Patterson and NYS needs to get its act together and ball-up to making some badly needed reforms in our State. This can’t continue.

Solution? Know your legislators. Complain to them. [...]]]>

A new report just came out naming New York State’s MONROE COUNTY (where I live) as the second-highest taxes in the nation. Yet another reason Governor Patterson and NYS needs to get its act together and ball-up to making some badly needed reforms in our State. This can’t continue.

Solution? Know your legislators. Complain to them. Vote out every single incumbent in upcoming elections and hold the new ones accountable to making the necessary reforms our state so badly needs! -B

LINK: Monroe County taxpayers among the highest-taxed in nation

Think President Obama’s health care overhaul is dead? I wish. It’s not. Read the NY Times latest.

Make your voice heard and contact your legislators today to express the need for true health care reform… not the bureaucratic nightmare that Obama is proposing! -B