I think the point My Bank is making is that when you are challenged with either (a) work hard to get ahead and your incentive is to not do what you don't want to do, or (b) take what is offered and don't complain.  I fully agree with that approach, those who work hard to get a leg up on the competition will get the bet...more

k 65- Actually Obama flew on Air Force One many a time to spend 5% of his time on "official business" and then 95% of his time campaigning.  The tax payer paid for the majority of those trips where he was on 'official' business but still campaigned.  All presidents do this to some extent, however undeniably Obama did...more

Someone   One item that you may have over looked. The issue is that MANY don't pay taxes and get money from the federal government.  That is why if everyone paid 15% on earned income then there would be more in the pot than taxing a portion of the people at above 30%.

Anyone notice the trend here on MSN, the AP, etc. since the election?  It seems that that there are a lot of folks being cast as villains because Obama won; it is as if there is this attitude of that everything that people are worried about has now been proven wrong and now all the sudden no issues exist.  I don’t nece...more

It is the WOODWARD Dream Cruise.  Woodward is not only in Detoit but goes up to Pontiac.

Exactly.  Let's look at what the home looked like before foreclosure and what it looked like after foreclosure.  Usually the surrounding neighborhood is a depliction of what the house was like before foreclosure.  This should be the basis of the report.

To all the people who thought that bailing out GM saved jobs, the reality is that tax money has subsidized GM cars over Ford, Honda, Toyota, etc. (BTW, most of those are also manufactured in the U.S., and GM had plants in Mexico, Canada, etc.).  People would have simply shifted from buying GM to companies who were more...more

Come on now, there are some good points.  I liken it to my philosophy that we should all hope wheat prices go to $30/bushel.  Think of the benefits: people wouldn't be able to afford to eat an so they would die, which would reduce farming from less demand which would reduce greenhouse gasses from farm machinery and foo...more

When Clinton made it illegal to use rational judgement to lend to money (i.e., lending those who could repay) that is what cause "THE" bubble (you know, the bubble that inflatted the construction job market, building materials market, the real estate market, all the trickel down affect from these industries).   Now w...more