AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL (does it need just a touch of makeup….or an extreme make-over?) Most of us think that America is stumbling and bumbling about right now, and its reflections in the mirror are not looking so good anymore. The
A WORD TO THE WISE (a cautionary tale for voters in November 2010) I’m borrowing from a delightful piece by Pep Red Vasquez’s – Pep Talk- column in a recent issue of the Philippines Today newspaper, and adapting it as
RESURRECTING DETROIT (might be good for the country as well) It’s been a year since Uncle Sam moved in to bail out GM and Chrysler (Ford decided to tough it out, and declined). At the time most of us were
A PYRRHIC POLITICAL VICTORY (with unknown negative consequences) After a year of effort President Obama has scored a political victory by steamrolling his health care reform plans through Congress. Legislation that he and his cohorts in Congress barely managed to
A FAILSAFE OPTION FOR HEALTH CARE (by a useful and creative application of the existing Tax Code) What the Obama Administration and it s cohorts in Congress have done for the past year concerning health care reform does not appear
HOW TO DEAL WITH A POLITICAL HOT POTATO (palm it off to a bi-partisan Commission) President Obama’s executive order – setting up a bi-partisan Commission to deal with our escalating load of budget deficits and debt – is clearly a
THE FINEST DYSFUNCTIONAL GOVERNMENT DEBT CAN BUY (how to become a banana republic without hardly trying) The Obama Administration has just handed us a $3.6 Trillion budget for the coming fiscal year, which starts next October. Such a load of
NOT ALL EARTHQUAKES ARE PHYSICAL (sometimes they can be….political) There was another kind of earthquake last week, in Massachusetts, where a relatively unknown state senator was overwhelmingly voted in to replace the late Senator Kennedy. The aftershocks of that event
HAITI (a state of multi-dimensional nightmares) Haiti has to be one of the unluckiest places in the Western Hemisphere, rivaling such other sinkholes of human misery and poverty as Bangladesh, in far-off Asia. Clobbered on an almost annual basis by
IN A STATE OF DISARRAY (we’re still looking for a Mr. Goodbar fix) A President’s – State of the Union – address to Congress is usually anticipated with great expectations. Whatever our nation’s condition of the moment, everyone expects