Our ancestors knew the difference between "junk money" and value for their labor.

Why free market capitalism is a ghost haunting our collective minds.

Oil, like cotton or coffee, is traded on the commodities future market, usually having minimal effect on the average American. This type of trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange was started more

The size of government is truly huge. When one thinks of government, most look just at the Federal government workers which number 11,028,000 jobs. They include grantee jobs, uniformed military personnel, Federal civil servants, contractor jobs and postal jobs. Counting the unemployed, those collecting social security benefit checks, collecting welfare payment checks, local and state hourly workers, cops teachers, firemen, librarians, road departments and state legislature, those figures mushroom into a huge personalized income tax bill supported by taxpayers personalized checks!

Over the last few years we have all seen our economy fall, no matter which country you live in, no matter what industry you work in, everyone has been affected. Those companies that are still operating have been cutting costs, reducing staff, cutting salaries and setting higher expectations for their employees to produce more with less.

If government bail-outs are good for our economy, why not bail us all out?

According to the Brookings Institute, the total number of government jobs that includes all Federal civil servants, contractor jobs, grantee jobs, uniformed military personnel and postal jobs is 11,028,000 jobs. When one checks and takes into the account the huge amount of people who generally are not counted: the unemployed, those retired on social security, those on welfare public assistance, state and local workers, police, teachers, firemen, road departments and the legislature payroll, those figures become alarmingly large!

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The ancient Hebrew language is not static. During the last 25 years, over 10,000 words have been added to the Hebrew language. This was required to meet the exigencies of modern life in conversational usage. William Chomsky's "Hebrew: The Eternal Language" is full of examples.

During the holidays, it's easy to get caught up in celebrating and spending time with your friends and family. There's so much to do, from shopping to cooking to decorating, we all too often get wrapp

Over 2 million people are expected to be in Washington D.C. to watch in person as the 44th President of the United States is sworn in on Tuesday, January 20, 2009. If the bone chilling weather doesn'

With gas prices fluctuating as they have over the past year, from the $3 plus range about a year ago, to as much as $4.50 this past summer and now in the $2 price range at the end of the year, it surely makes you wonder why gas prices are high sometimes, but plummet rapidly when the economy is in poor health. It seems a bit suspicious, if you ask me.

Is the worst still to come? That is the $789 billion dollar question. Or in the case of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, the 2.5 trillion dollar question. Despite Congress getting ready to vote

The luxury jet Citigroup wanted to purchase made the news, as did the $35,000 commode and billions in bonuses credited to Merrill Lynch CEO, John Thain. What is less clear is exactly what effect the

The government says they employ 11,028,000 collecting pay checks. This includes contractor jobs, Federal civil servants, grantee jobs, uniformed military personnel and postal jobs. What it does not include are those unemployed, those collecting public assistance and social security payment checks. In essence, these people are on the payroll as well as local and state hourly workers, state police and cops, public school teachers, emergency workers and firemen, librarians, road department employees and state legislature workers. The burden of employing this huge infrastructure is supported by taxpayers personalized checks.

I was suddenly craving food last night at 11pm, so I picked up my keys and coat and headed for the nearest convenient store, the 7eleven. I grabbed some unhealthy snacks, and bought a lottery ticket before I jumped back to my car. I was cold, frosty cold with 28 degrees temperature. I turned on the heat, and started my car heading home, when I suddenly saw a little stranger waving for help in the middle of the road.

I spent all day and most of the night waiting on an MRI. The nurses woke me up at 8 AM to get ready to go. I finally got called at 1 AM this morning. (That's 17 hours later.) I rode through the eerily quiet hallways back to the nuclear med area that is normally bustling with people, and noticed that someone had waxed the floor recently with a high gloss shine.

The outlook is grim and the solution is costly. President-elect Barack Obama didn't have much in the way of positive news to give on the American economy in his recent speech at George Mason Universi

Prior to our most recent and historic Presidential election, the political discussion forums were jammed with people, voicing their opinions in sometimes quite vociferous and lively debates. Typically, after the election is over, the political discussion forums are sparsely populated. Not this time. Political junkies can smell big changes coming.

If it seems a little unusual that President-elect Barack Obama is holding daily press conferences and lining up legislation to be signed his first days in office that's because this is a presidential

As most people can see, the North American population as a whole is getting optimistic about the near future of our economy.

Go to thesyndicated news to purchase this story it is a Bomshell I just happened to review a Fox News article published on June 28, 2008 called Barbecue Diplomat. newsweek As a former military pros

I am amazed by some of the people whom I encounter every day who do not know anything about politics. Everyone should know how their government works so I am writing down my old college notes as a beg

In the Eighteenth Century, they found dishes, saws, knives, flints, a scraper, a prehistoric horn celt with strange markings, a spokeshave and some arrowheads from the Neolithic Period. These artifacts are safely ensconced in the Museum of Wales in Cardiff, but unfortunately, no one at the time thought the find significant enough to warrant a dig and now there are houses on it.

The government says they employ 11,028,000 collecting pay checks. This includes contractor jobs, Federal civil servants, grantee jobs, uniformed military personnel and postal jobs. What it does not include are those unemployed, those collecting public assistance and social security payment checks. In essence, these people are on the payroll as well as local and state hourly workers, state police and cops, public school teachers, emergency workers and firemen, librarians, road department employees and state legislature workers. The burden of employing this huge infrastructure is supported by taxpayers personalized checks.