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Now we know why decades of deficit spending and debt accumulation, even through times of fake prosperity, storing our national wealth in ridiculously inflated stock…
Posted in Economics, Social Spending, and Taxes
In the 1800’s, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, with little government oversight or involvement, spent his life building transportation and financial infrastructure that made him possibly the…
The classic “guns or butter” dilemma concerning use of federal tax revenues (and borrowed money) suggests a choice between spending on national defense or welfare.…
Posted in Politics, and Social Spending
The item below is from the August 1, 2016, Time Magazine. Search “universal Income” and you will find recent much longer articles from The New…
Sometimes it helps to provide some historical context for currently observed phenomena. The chart below shows total federal, state, and local social benefit spending for…
Posted in Jobs, Politicians, Poverty, and Social Spending
My grandparents, Oscar and Ezalee, Hobart and Bessie, were born in 1895, 1895, 1897, and 1898 respectively. Their children, three sisters in the first case…