Economy

Recovery Within 1 Year

Posted by Josh Ferguson on February 3, 2010 at 9:54 am

Here’s my plan to get us out of this mess and into full recovery within 1 year.
First, freeze all spending this year. It’s nice to announce that you want to freeze spending starting next year on a small fraction of programs but not until you jack up the spending this year first. Freeze [...]

Reuters Story Pulled at White House Request

Posted by Josh Ferguson on February 2, 2010 at 3:30 pm

Today Reuters put out a story rightly criticizing Obama’s new budget for all of it’s back-door tax hikes on the middle class. The White House called Reuters and asked them to pull the story because of “inaccuracies” which they promptly did.
I found the story in Yahoo! News’ cache and I reprint it [...]

Not Everyone Thrilled With Obama’s New Tax Hike

Posted by Josh Ferguson on May 5, 2009 at 1:13 pm

Obama is receiving resistance, even from his own party on his new proposal to close corporate tax “loopholes” for American companies operating internationally. It seems most people can see how ill-conceived his plan really is.
The supposed “loophole” that Obama is trying to close is a law that says that companies that make profits oversees [...]

GM’s New Tagline

Posted by Josh Ferguson on April 30, 2009 at 9:01 am

After hearing about the bailouts of GM and Chrysler, I thought of a new tagline they can add to every commercial and advertisement they put out:
GM – You can pay us now or you can pay us later!
What do you think? Catchy, isn’t it?