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1.	Bookmarks: 0	The Economic Impact Of Politics On Investing Just six short months from now we will be asked to elect a leader for the still most powerful economic entity on the planet clearly, we need to focus on broad long term strategies that will create jobs and make it possible for both businesses and individuals to prosper.
2.	Bookmarks: 0	Let's Make 401k Plans Behave More Like Retirement Plans Although it is true that you do not pay taxes on your contributions during the earning years, you will absolutely pay through both nostrils when you retire. If your karma is off, you may find yourself retiring at a time when the stock market is not in a party mood and your shrinking mutual funds don't seem quite as secure as they did a few months earlier. We can deal with the market cycle; a saner tax code is a much bigger problem
3.	Bookmarks: 0	Social Security: Dear Congressman Nugent A letter to a Congreesman from Florida, written by a friend of mine. We both feel that there are viable replacement strategies for Social Security that don't involve the stock market. Please visit AmericareToday.com for the complete picture.
4.	Bookmarks: 0	How To Create A Fairer Tax Environment There are 44,000 pages in the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) alone, 5.5 million words, incomprehensible at best. Obviously, there is a lot more to be said about each of the ideas that follow. Here are the top survey ideas; the first two were discussed in previous results articles as consumer spending enhancers and job creators, respectively.
5.	Bookmarks: 0	How To Stimulate Consumer Spending And The Economy --- The Romney Plan? The single, easiest, fastest, biggest, consumer-spending instant winner bonanza is not even a twinkle in an old politician's eye --- and there are far too few new politicians. Replace the Social Security Retirement Program with a plain vanilla pension plan, pre-funded by smaller, mandated employee contributions.
6.	Bookmarks: 2	How To Create More Jobs, America Today, employers are reluctant to create jobs because the mandated non-productive overhead associated with each worker adds significantly to the cost of running the business--- worker's compensation, unemployment insurance, OSHA compliance, liability insurance, social security contributions, minimum wage/union pay scales, etc.
7.	Bookmarks: 0	An Investor's View of The Fair Tax: A 2012 Resolution A Government that bemoans the population's low savings and investment rates has only itself to blame. The majority of Americans would agree that investing, retirement planning, and estate preservation would be easier to manage if the Internal Revenue Code was comprehensible. A landslide of American voters would elect any candidate championing IRC replacement surgery.
8.	Bookmarks: 0	The Congressional Reform Act of 2012 - A Proposal You may not agree with all of these ideas, but this is the kind of change in government that many of us are looking for. It may be difficult to find candidates with the guts to push this agenda, but its worth the effort.
9.	Bookmarks: 0	An Investor's Eye View of the Corporate Income Tax Politicians have neither been shy about dictating proper behavior to individuals nor hesitant in shamelessly picking the pockets of businesses. At the root of the problem is the tremendous investment the major parties have in nurturing divisiveness, jealousy, and misunderstanding in the electorate. The corporate income tax is a non-productive weight on business decision makers, causing expenditures that would not be considered were they not tax deductible.
10.	Bookmarks: 6	Jobs - Permanent Jobs - Millions Of 'Em Today, in the very birthplace of capitalism, an entrenched, arrogant, and incompetent congress equates greedy executives with the demise of capitalism while the economic force field it demeans catapults third world nations onto the leader board of global economic growth potential. Capitalism dead? Hardly.
11.	Bookmarks: 0	US Congress Passes 3 Free-Trade Pacts The deal is expected to reduce prices for American consumers and increase foreign sales of American goods and services, providing a much-needed jolt to the sluggish economy.
12.	Bookmarks: 0	Handset Manufacturers Made The Most Spotlights At MWC As expected, the handset manufacturers categorically made the most spotlight in Mobile World Congress 2012 with their latest handset versions. All the major hosting brands were very noticeable and impressive.
13.	Bookmarks: 0	HTC announced to present new phone – HTC One series at Mobile World Congress 2012 HTC has learned from the rapid fall which was experienced at the end of last year and soon decided to launch new handset HTC One series to cover its market.
14.	Bookmarks: 0	Interesting Reading - - - Two Articles by Others Charlie Reese's Final Column: 555 People & A Constitutional Amendment to Reform Congress
15.	Bookmarks: 0	The Social Security Problem--- and Two Viable Solutions Social Security is a cancer that’s killing the American economy --- it must be replaced by something more constructive. Here are two interesting monologue's that describe the multi trillion dollar problem, and offer one man's workable (if complex) solution. Combine his program and mine and you've got something.
16.	Bookmarks: 2	Testing All Texas Schools Athletes For Steroids? It Could Happen Soon Professional athletes have been in the news a lot over the past few years, either being accused or admitting to taking performance-enhancing drugs. Major league baseball has taken several hits with accusations being brought against some of their top players, such as home-run king Mark McGwire, who took the fifth amendment to not incriminate himself during Congressional questioning on the subject. Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants, Jason Giambi of the New York Yankees, a...
17.	Bookmarks: 0	What Is The Fair Tax And Why Should You Care? The U.S. Federal Income Tax Code is a tax on the income of American companies and citizens enacted by the government. The U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to impose taxes, duties, imposts, and excises.The purpose of the Tax Code is to provide income for the operation of the government. The Tax Code is found in Title 26 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).Any U.S. citizen who has filled out a federal tax return knows how confusing the current U.S. T...
18.	Bookmarks: 0	401k Retirement Plans Explained 401k retirement plans are special types of accounts, financed through pre-tax payroll deductions. The funds in your account are invested in various ways. Your funds can be invested through any number of stocks, mutual funds, and other ways, and it is not taxed on any capital gains or interest until the money is pulled out or withdrawn. Congress approved this retirement savings plan in 1981, and its name was rooted from the section of the Internal Revenue Code that contains it...
19.	Bookmarks: 3	Congress Enacts New Laws Making Iras Better Than Ever! Have you heard of the non-deductible IRA? I'm not referring to the ROTH IRA, but a traditional IRA that many people are stuck with as their only option (for various reasons that make investing in other types of IRAs unavailable).In those cases, the IRS allows you to contribute to a traditional IRA, but NOT take a tax deduction for it.You still get tax-deferred growth, but during retirement your earnings (interest and capital gains) will be taxed, but not the contrib...
20.	Bookmarks: 0	Internet And Cable Tv Shake Up Democracy Very rarely are we given the opportunity as citizens to participate in a revolution. The citizens that founded our republic participated in a revolution that has affected every corner of the earth for more than 200 years now. Our grandfathers and fathers participated in a revolution during World War II when we successfully ridded the world of Adolph Hitler and his technology of death that was sweeping civilization.Finally we all participated in a quiet revolution when Com...
21.	Bookmarks: 0	Tock Research – As Hedge Fund Industry & Private Equity Gets Hotter – Heat Is Building On Them Too!!! Both the hedge fund and private equity industry had free rides during George Bush’s Administration when the Congress was safely in Republican hands. All that changed in November 06 when the Democrats swept the Congress, and with the change in control came new Democratic responsibilities to address the fiscal deficits generated during the time, the Republicans controlled both the executive and legislative branches of government. It is strange to ponder, but the Republican ...
22.	Bookmarks: 3	What Exactly Is Free Grant Money? You can apply for free grant money from various government agencies. But where exactly does this money come from? It all begins with what Congress allocates every year for funding of various programs. This runs into billions of dollars and they are for projects that will benefit the community. In fact, education itself sees over $67 billion being allocated to it every year.How free is free would be the question. This free money does necessitate spending time, effort and m...
23.	Bookmarks: 0	Steroids: Could Your Child Be Next? Players that are guilty of taking steroids are not only cheaters, you are cowards. ...Show our kids that you're man enough to face authority, tell the truth and face the consequences.” — Donald Hooton of Plano, Texas, who testified before Congress that his son, Taylor, a high school baseball player, committed suicide in 2003 after steroid use.Does your child use steroids?Of course not.That's what concerned parents want to believe.Yet scores of young people ar...
24.	Bookmarks: 6	An Honor Roll, Not A Watch List, For Colleges Members of Congress on the House committee on education have come up with an absolute bonehead idea: to publish a watch list of schools that have increased tuition at rates higher than inflation.I am surprised when members of the House speak of reigning in college costs with measures such as this, when they fail to do the same for health care. I am sure the list of hospitals that have raised charges beyond inflation would be longer than the number of bad-behaving colleg...
25.	Bookmarks: 0	Janet Napolitano and Steve Selengut – Strange BlogFellows How many politicians, political appointees, and/or regulators does it take to change a light bulb?
26.	Bookmarks: 7	Health Care Belongs At Home - Not In The Halls of Congress! It's amazing to me how so many Americans have allowed themselves to be duped by politicians who claim they can provide health care for them. Do Americans not understand that their health is their individual responsibility? Do Americans understand so little about good health that they think it can be provided by a politician, or a health insurance company, or a doctor, or worse from taking a pill?
27.	Bookmarks: 0	Being An Executive Is Not Just A Look. When I think of an executive I think of powerful looking man in a sharp suit making large business deals with international big-wigs. I think of bank accounts in the Carribean and 2nd homes in Italy. I think about the dark limousines and the power ties and golfing with the president or a powerful person in Congress. I think of Martini’s and big cigars and lawyers and secret memos.Why do I think all these things about being an executive? Well the movies of course and why n...
28.	Bookmarks: 0	Baseball and The Steroids Issues In 5 last years the increasing popularity and the use of the illegal substances like steroids in the principal baseball of league created a public outcry and carried out to the bills of indictment, the arrests and congressional hearings. Some even put the principal baseball of league on the par with the
29.	Bookmarks: 1	Abe Lincoln: An Extraordinary Leader Perhaps noted as one of the greatest United States presidents of all time, Abraham Lincoln’s early life may not have reflected his potential greatness. He failed in business. He lost election to the state legislature, Speaker of the House, nomination for Congress, appointment of land officer, U.S. Senate twice and nomination for Vice President. After those eight major failures, Lincoln was elected President of the United States. How many of us would have kept going like Lincoln did?
30.	Bookmarks: 0	Student Loan Consolidation Rates Set to Increase on July 1 Congress voted on and passed Feb. 1 the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 that included massive cuts to federal student loan programs. The $11.9 billion in student loan cuts, including changes in laws regarding student loan consolidation, will negatively impact those students seeking a college education and others seeking to consolidate their higher interest loans. The industry expects a rush of students seeking to consolidate at the current low rates that are set to increase on July 1.
31.	Bookmarks: 5	The Real BP --- Something Else To Think About I recognize the enormity of the issue; however, Mr. President, you and your peer group have a drilling record, and that record is enough to make any grandma cringe. I refer to the current rig that began operation in 1983.
32.	Bookmarks: 0	Investment Scandals & Scams: What's Next! With every new Scandal, a voracious Media and a hypocritical Congress exacerbate the fear of shocked investors and call for more regulation of the very entities whose success, freedom, viability, and competitiveness they should be nurturing. Ironically, politicians are always the most outspoken critics... probably because of their familiarity with cover-ups and improprieties.
33.	Bookmarks: 0	Mysteries Unraveled One of the great mysteries of personal finance is: How are social security retirement benefits calculated? The computation itself is something of a mystery. It's so complex that I'm not sure who could have dreamed it up. I am sure that most in Congress don't understand it. In this article
34.	Bookmarks: 3	Congress Approves .9999 Fine Gold Coins New .9999 fine (24 karat) 1-oz legal tender $50 gold coins will be added to the U.S. Mint's line of gold bullion coins in 2006 when President Bush signs into law a bill that Congress passed in December. The legislation calls for the Mint to have the coins ready to distribute by June 2006, but the coins may be ready before then.
35.	Bookmarks: 26	Rude Behavior by Celebrities It is unfortunate that Serena Williams, Congressman Wilson, and Kanye West had to make their mistakes in an international arena, but they are celebrities and they should know better. We expect more from them because they are in the limelight. Whether we like it or not, they are role models and their rude and obnoxious behavior says to many that it is ok to behave this way.
36.	Bookmarks: 0	Solving Social Security is No Big Deal - The Solution (August, 2006) Are you surprised that there is no Social Security Trust Fund... no investments and no Investment Managers. This is a gigantic Government designed and controlled Ponzi scheme that has worked incredibly well in spite of congressional tinkering and prohibitively high cost. There was always a tax plan for funding the benefits, but never an Investment Plan.
37.	Bookmarks: 0	Solving Social Security is No Big Deal - Details (August, 2006) Are you surprised that there is no Social Security Trust Fund... no investments and no Investment Managers. This is a gigantic Government designed and controlled Ponzi scheme that has worked incredibly well in spite of congressional tinkering and prohibitively high cost. There was always a tax plan for funding the benefits, but never an Investment Plan.
38.	Bookmarks: 5	Stock Market Meltdown – Watching Rome Burn (September 2008) Both presidential candidates want to crucify SEC Chairman Cox for failing to control our creative financial institutions. But rumor has it that Congress specifically excluded the devilish derivatives from SEC purview. Let's fire the right bunch of "poips" for a change!
39.	Bookmarks: 0	Wall Street Bailout, Congressional Cover-up, or Sarbanes-Oxley? (September 2008) Both presidential candidates want to crucify SEC Chairman Cox for failing to control our creative financial institutions. But rumor has it that Congress specifically excluded the devilish derivatives from SEC purview. Let's fire the right bunch of "poips" for a change!
40.	Bookmarks: 0	Last Bank Standing - The Wall Street Mega-Crash (October 2008) Today's Congress is ignoring its role as the primary creative force in today's problems. This transfusion is needed because: bad laws have obscured the values on financial institution balance sheets, and have created a clot in the credit arteries that keep the economy alive.
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42.	Bookmarks: 0	How to Protest the Online Gambling Ban Protesting is relatively easy, all you have to do is let people know you do not agree with something and you are protesting it. But to hold a successful protest takes much more time and effort.
43.	Bookmarks: 2	How the Online Gambling Ban helps Al Qaeda One of the justifications used to ban online gambling in the USA was that online gambling was supporting terrorism and groups like Al Qaeda, But does a ban on online gambling help or hurt them.
44.	Bookmarks: 0	Red Light Opportunity Shuffling along the sidewalk with no place to go neither time to be of a concern, I was trying to think of what to do today. Making my way slowly down this avenue of congress of this capital city I already had a free meal at the eleven o’clock serving. As I strolled under the tall buildings casting shadows across the workers of commerce scurrying their way between the doors of the high structures I remembered what day of the week it was. Today was the day I could give plasma...
45.	Bookmarks: 7	Will the Democrats be able to Reverse the Online Gambling Ban Thanks to a mid term election win the Democrats now control both houses of congress for the first time in 12 years, but will they try to reverse the online casino ban and if they do will they be successful.
46.	Bookmarks: 0	How to Protest the Online Gambling Ban Protesting is relatively easy, all you have to do is let people know you do not agree with something and you are protesting it. But to hold a successful protest takes much more time and effort.
47.	Bookmarks: 2	How the Online Gambling Ban helps Al Qaeda One of the justifications used to ban online gambling in the USA was that online gambling was supporting terrorism and groups like Al Qaeda, But does a ban on online gambling help or hurt them.