http://www.mdgpledge.org Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:47:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.mdgpledge.org/some-thoughts-on-noonan-the-power-of-bad-ideas/ http://www.mdgpledge.org/some-thoughts-on-noonan-the-power-of-bad-ideas/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:47:35 +0000 admin http://www.mdgpledge.org/some-thoughts-on-noonan-the-power-of-bad-ideas/ Michael yes I did and also Friday but I cannot connnect the 2012 tax estimator elections to the DOW. If the DOW is the leading inciator for the 2012 election then stay tuned for a very unpleasant ecomimic news over the next 4 to 6 quarters. Prehaps you are correct and I accept your point for I do not have any More]]> http://www.mdgpledge.org/some-thoughts-on-noonan-the-power-of-bad-ideas/feed/ 0 http://www.mdgpledge.org/my-view-on-steven-e.-landsburg-how-the-death-tax-hurts-the-poor/ http://www.mdgpledge.org/my-view-on-steven-e.-landsburg-how-the-death-tax-hurts-the-poor/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:45:09 +0000 admin http://www.mdgpledge.org/my-view-on-steven-e.-landsburg-how-the-death-tax-hurts-the-poor/ Start with a wife and add two kids. Shake well. Then create a Hong Kong corporation tax rates. Give yourself 40% of outstanding shares and give each wife and kid 20%. So the 3 of them together own control of the corporation. Get one of them to give you proxy so you control your own comany while you live. Give More]]> http://www.mdgpledge.org/my-view-on-steven-e.-landsburg-how-the-death-tax-hurts-the-poor/feed/ 0 http://www.mdgpledge.org/opinion-on-the-weekend-interview-with-larry-silverstein-the-man-who-is-rebuilding-ground-zero/ http://www.mdgpledge.org/opinion-on-the-weekend-interview-with-larry-silverstein-the-man-who-is-rebuilding-ground-zero/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:43:52 +0000 admin http://www.mdgpledge.org/opinion-on-the-weekend-interview-with-larry-silverstein-the-man-who-is-rebuilding-ground-zero/ I see most of these comments are written with strong viewpoints on different aspects of that historical day nine years ago. I have perhaps a bit different view because I lived with and worked for Mr. & Mrs. Silverstein forty years ago when I was a teenager. I served as a lifeguard and babysitter during several More]]> http://www.mdgpledge.org/opinion-on-the-weekend-interview-with-larry-silverstein-the-man-who-is-rebuilding-ground-zero/feed/ 0 http://www.mdgpledge.org/views-on-murkowskis-lead-begins-to-appear-challenge/ http://www.mdgpledge.org/views-on-murkowskis-lead-begins-to-appear-challenge/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:38:37 +0000 admin http://www.mdgpledge.org/views-on-murkowskis-lead-begins-to-appear-challenge/ What is with the food obsession about Sarah Palin? The reason Murks won is that there was no reason to vote for the Dem since he was so far behind. So a vote for Murky was a vote against Sarah Palin? Why the obsession? She has no power to tax you or give you government bounty. She has no ability to affect your More]]> http://www.mdgpledge.org/views-on-murkowskis-lead-begins-to-appear-challenge/feed/ 0 http://www.mdgpledge.org/my-analysis-on-obama-and-the-debt-crisis/ http://www.mdgpledge.org/my-analysis-on-obama-and-the-debt-crisis/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:36:09 +0000 admin http://www.mdgpledge.org/my-analysis-on-obama-and-the-debt-crisis/ Harold, your diatribe is not only inane and stereotypical, it has absolutely nothing to do with my post.The only hope you had was that this President-probably the only one in the last 75 years with whom you would find and ear-would be enough of a leader to carry the vote. He's failed, just as the ideas you promote More]]> http://www.mdgpledge.org/my-analysis-on-obama-and-the-debt-crisis/feed/ 0 http://www.mdgpledge.org/some-thoughts-on-mistakes-in-scientific-studies-surge/ http://www.mdgpledge.org/some-thoughts-on-mistakes-in-scientific-studies-surge/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:36:05 +0000 admin http://www.mdgpledge.org/some-thoughts-on-mistakes-in-scientific-studies-surge/ Hi Glen, You are correct in saying that ideals and organizational values are different from a morality derived by religion. However, I think it you surveyed world religions (I have) you would find some things in common. Murder, adultery, theft are all things that Jews, Hindus, Muslims and Christians believe More]]> http://www.mdgpledge.org/some-thoughts-on-mistakes-in-scientific-studies-surge/feed/ 0 http://www.mdgpledge.org/thoughts-on-aprs-le-dluge-what/ http://www.mdgpledge.org/thoughts-on-aprs-le-dluge-what/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:35:05 +0000 admin http://www.mdgpledge.org/thoughts-on-aprs-le-dluge-what/ The very frightening thing in America is that this is not just the single parent, no father, minority group young person that is a possible contributor to flash mobs or disrepect for property or people. Some of these young children have been ignored by blackberry, Iphone, texting parents that are too busy to More]]> http://www.mdgpledge.org/thoughts-on-aprs-le-dluge-what/feed/ 0 http://www.mdgpledge.org/opinion-on-steve-malanga-the-local-government-pension-squeeze/ http://www.mdgpledge.org/opinion-on-steve-malanga-the-local-government-pension-squeeze/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:30:58 +0000 admin http://www.mdgpledge.org/opinion-on-steve-malanga-the-local-government-pension-squeeze/ Fire and Police departments in a company must be reformed. As the military became a voluntary force the same needs to be applied to fire and police. Fire departments have almost 90% idle time and police departments are as much a major strain on society both financially and legally. They have become hero's for More]]> http://www.mdgpledge.org/opinion-on-steve-malanga-the-local-government-pension-squeeze/feed/ 0 http://www.mdgpledge.org/my-analysis-on-payroll/ http://www.mdgpledge.org/my-analysis-on-payroll/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:54:40 +0000 admin http://www.mdgpledge.org/my-analysis-on-payroll/ Can't afford the Bush tax extension 2012 cuts either, will you be calling your congressmen to not extend those as well. In one year those cuts add more to the national debt than 5 years of this tax cut. Can't be pro tax cut when R's want one and then be anti tax cuts when D's want one. I'll tell you what, if More]]> http://www.mdgpledge.org/my-analysis-on-payroll/feed/ 0 http://www.mdgpledge.org/an-opinion-on-stephen-moore-a-fairness-quiz-for-the-president/ http://www.mdgpledge.org/an-opinion-on-stephen-moore-a-fairness-quiz-for-the-president/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:10:14 +0000 admin http://www.mdgpledge.org/an-opinion-on-stephen-moore-a-fairness-quiz-for-the-president/ What is fair about some people paying HIGH TAXES (both as a percentage of income tax refund calculator AND in raw dollar amounts) while others pay NOTHING? What is fair about people who pay NO TAXES GETTING A REFUND? (And how do you call it a refund when no taxes were paid in the first place?) What is fair about More]]> http://www.mdgpledge.org/an-opinion-on-stephen-moore-a-fairness-quiz-for-the-president/feed/ 0