I Dare You to Actually Read the Budget

by AskTheActuary | 11:49 pm, May 13, 2010

I read through some of “The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2010 – 2020″, published by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in January 2010, by Doug Elemndorf, Director of the CBO.  Fascinating stuff… really… if you’re into horror stories. Given all of the recent talk about sovereign debt, potential downgrades of various countries’ credit [...]

New IRS Tax Form

by Justin Longo | 12:49 pm, December 18, 2009

Damn The Recession, Full Spending Ahead

by Ask The Actuary | 11:40 pm, December 12, 2009

Damn The Recession, Full Spending Ahead

This weekend Congress will vote to approve the final pieces of our country’s discretionary spending budget for fiscal Year 2010. Discretionary spending is all of the spending that Congress “appropriates” each year that is not already mandatory such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, interest on the debt, [...]

W.R. Grace Deficit Commercial – Prescient, and Delightfully Creepy

by T.L. James | 10:57 pm, April 6, 2009

I don’t remember seeing this commericial when it was originally on… …but I was surprised to discover that it had been made in 1986. By Ridley Scott. It looks newly-made, and it certainly fits the current situation. And it has a catchy retro feel to it, as if it had been made on the set [...]

Government employee unions? No way!

by John West | 2:48 pm, February 4, 2009

I was in a government building today and saw a sign posted that raised my ire.  It was a recruiting poster for a government employees union.  The first thing on the poster was the main reason they state for government employees to join their union.  The reason, “The THREAT:  Under way is a powerful and rapidly moving effort aimed [...]

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