Why you were hired - - -

A note to politicians: You weren't hired to get re-elected, you were hired to do what's right for your employers, "we the people."  --L. Reichard White, Tuesday, April 26, 2011 8:10 AM

The bad-guys: It's not who you think - - -

Remember, it's not the people who are paid to run it who are evil, stupid and incompetent, it's the system, the machine, itself. --L. Reichard White, Saturday, April 23, 2011 5:20 AM

A complete reversal of fortune?

"We used to pay off the mortgage and leave our kids the farm, now we mortgage the farm and leave our kids the payments." --The unknown truth-teller

The KEY economic insight - - -

"Money" obeys The Law of Supply and Demand. --L. Reichard White, Wednesday, April 20, 2011 7:50 AM

Dear Uncle --- by the way - - -

Dear Uncle Sam, why did you borrow $14.3 trillion instead of paying cash? --L. Reichard White, Tuesday, April 19, 2011 9:17 AM

By the way, what are you going to do about the estimated $65 trillion Medicare for our older folks is going to cost you? 

Rocket scientists - - -

"Attacking Iraq because of 9-11 would be like the U.S. attacking Mexico because of Pearl Harbor."  --White House terrorism adviser Richard Clark

"...the U.S. invaded a country [Iraq] that did not threaten us, had not attacked us and did not want war with us, to disarm it of weapons we have since discovered it did not have." --Patrick J. Buchanan, "Where The Right Went Wrong," quoted in --The Only Way to Make Your Vote Count

You can't handle the truth - - -

"Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied." --Arthur Miller (and thanks to Agente Snow)

What's "ours?"

"It's just fine if you call it 'our country,' but if you insist on calling it 'our government,' you haven't been paying attention." --L. Reichard White, April 16, 2011

Their Calculator doesn't go all the way to the top

The way the U.S. banker/government axis calculates unemployment, if things got so bad everyone gave up looking for work, the unemployment rate would be 0%.  No, I'm NOT making that up.  --L. Reichard White, Thursday, April 07, 2011 8:11 AM

Fair weather advocate -- or are you serious?

"Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons." --Ron Paul

Fringe benefit

If you learn how to win elections, afterwards, you can do pretty much whatever you want for at least the next four years. --L. Reichard White, Monday, April 04, 2011 5:46 AM

Re-mem-mem re-mem-mem-mem-ber when?

Remember when you "pledged allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands?"

When did it become a "democracy?"

Why?

--L. Reichard White Friday, March 25, 2011 5:21 AM

Three BIG whys

1. Instead of "National debt" why don't they call it what it really is: "Government debt?" 

2. Why did they borrow rather than pay cash? 

3. Why should we, let alone our kids, grand kids and the yet unborn, pay it? --L. Reichard White, Wednesday, March 23, 2011 8:52 AM

Unrecognized opportunity

It's not criticism, it's an invitation to learn. --L. Reichard White, Monday, March 14, 2011 6:02 AM

Where inflation ALWAYS comes from

"There is perhaps no empirical regularity among economic phenomena that is based on so much evidence for so wide a range of circumstances as the connection between substantial changes in the quantity of money and in the level of prices." ... "It follows ... that inflation is always and everwhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output."  --Milton Friedman, quoted in Judy Shelton, Money Meltdown (New York: The Free Press 1994), p. 176 & 177

There is no such thing

There is no such thing as a menial job. --L. Reichard White, Monday, March 07, 2011 6:10 AM

Meditation # zero

If it's not here-now, it's a prediction. OR a memory. --L. Reichard White, Sunday, March 06, 2011 9:38 PM

Of carts & horses

You have to be able to be wrong before you can be right. --L. Reichard White, Saturday, March 05, 2011 10:24 AM

Who do YOU trust?

I want community watch keeping markets honest, quality high, prices low, and products safe and evolving, not some tired, old, lazy, corruptible night watchman who lulls consumers into a false sense of security -- and in all likelihood has already been bought off by lobbyists, post-retirement job promises, or large campaign contributions. --L. Reichard White, Friday, March 04, 2011 8:51 AM

Easy way out?

It's easier to die than to be left behind. --L. Reichard White, Friday, March 04, 2011 8:36 AM