Stimulus
7.8 Percent Unemployment Is Nothing to Brag About
©2012 Susan Stamper Brown.
If the federal government was meant to create jobs, it would have created a surplus of them by now, and unemployment would be far below 7.8 percent — considering the exorbitant amount of money the Obama administration has, as it says, “invested” to do so. Read the rest of this entry »
Voter’s Best Choice Revealed With the Restatement of the Obvious
Copyright 2012 Susan Stamper Brown
“We have now sunk to a depth where the restatement of the obvious is the duty of intelligent men.” –George Orwell
Unlike children, who often surprise parents with their simple logic, adults have the propensity to over-think things. So often, the answers we seek are directly in front of us, but we fail to see them because they are too obvious. Politicians take advantage of this nearsightedness when they distract us with hoards of information labeled as fact, but in the end, it doesn’t really give us an accurate picture of anything. George Orwell described this political-speak as a “Political language… designed to make lies sound truthful,” and he wasn’t kidding. 
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Marching Behind Europe Toward Cliff’s Edge
© Copyright 2012 Susan Stamper Brown
Freedom is a two-edged sword in that it grants us the opportunity to destroy our own destiny should we make wrong choices. But it doesn’t have to be that way, should we choose to learn from others’ mistakes. Read the rest of this entry »