Your first step should be to buy I-Bonds directly from the U.S. Treasury. No middle man fees and no federal income taxes until you cash the bonds. You'll get an inflation adjusted return, and you'll avoid the skim from the financial services industry (that's a beautiful thing). If your employer provides a match in its ...more

To answer the question, hell yes.

What a facile analysis.  Independent registrations up, and Democratic ones down, so that must mean the newly minted independents won't vote Democrat.  I bet many of those new independents are fed-up progressives who will support Obama because he's the lesser of two evils.

I agree with your characterization, but not your remedy.  The tea party is nothing but a propaganda machine created by the Koch brothers, who are a big part of the problem.  If only Americans stood up, like their immigrant forebears, and fought for fundamental fairness in this country, instead of allowing themselves to...more

Laughable.

How about the entitlement certain business interests feel about subsidies paid by the taxpayers?  They cost us all much more than the example you cited.

Wow, great article.  When is the middle class going to wake up to the fact that corporate welfare and obscenely low tax rates for big money interests are what's bankrupting the country?  The same big money interests that rely on the children of the middle class and poor to secure this country by risking their lives in ...more

Inflation in a depressed economy?  Not likely.  I agree with infrastructure spending, though - finance it by cutting corporate welfare, which simply lines the pockets of big money interests at everyone else's expense.  You know, the guys who talk about personal responsibility and small government, until they want a sub...more

And pay off the debt when growth returns.  But you won't hear the right wing say that.  You know, the guys who spent like drunken sailors when W was in office and they controlled Congress - creating the largest deficit in American history.  But now that a Democrat is in the White House, they're screaming about debt.  P...more