the 47% are not all deadbeats as you make them out.  If you make 80K and have 10 kids - you will pay no income taxes. Eliminate exemptions and tax credits for children, and these people will have to pay their share.

looks like bad math to me. For tampa at 144K, with a 10% down, and 3.5% interest, Principal+interest comes to abt $736, then add property tax and insurance, est 125 monthly, add mortgage insurance as well, looks like at least  $900, or 50% of gross income. I thought rule of thumb was to loan no more than 33% of income....more

IQs really have dropped. I lost money buying property, I lost my job, Im not personally better off, my dog ate my homework - It must be the work of the devil - I mean Obama!! What has your congress done to fix the problem? They make the laws of the land - the president only signs them.  Why haven't they fixed the econo...more

The whole issue is irrelevant - Im not under the mistaken assumption that a president can fix a broken economy.

The consumer always pays for R&D costs. Look at the drug industry. If you buy medications, you are not only paying the R&D for for billions in advertising costs to boot. Why do you think new technologies are more expensive? How much were the first flat screen TVs. I recall some over $8000 when they first started appear...more

think of all the resources it takes to get oil, drilling, spilling, cleanups, transporting it everywhere (using more of it), poison in the air, the water, our food supply. At least electricity CAN be made cleaner. How much pollution comes out of Hoover Dam? There is no one answer - but electricity is one of them.

So you think an SUV lets you compete with a semi??

This article appears a bit slanted. Why figure how long to pay off a Volt? How long does it take to payoff a Suburban? The correct comparison is based on how much you save on fuel yearly, to pay the difference between the hybrid and a regular vehicle- which is really about 10-15K. If you save 2K a year in fuel, then it...more

Why is our government loaning to banks at all? They should be borrowing from their members. They are a business. A savings account pays almost nothing in interest - why? Because they banks can borrow from our govenment for almost nothing. Its not like there is no money out there.