The Social Security Trust Fund should be solvent and able to continue to pay all benefits (including cost-of-living adjustments each year), except for the fact that although everyone paid into the trust fund with every paycheck and their employers had to match it, Congress stole, pilfered, plundered, and embezzled it all. The term “trust fund”
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Solyndra was not the first alternative energy company to receive federal funding with little promise of repayment, nor will they be the last unless we make drastic changes to the way the federal government currently doles out assistance to energy companies. With no oversight from the general public, the federal government provided over $36 billion in funding for Solyndra development. The failure of companies like Solyndra and Abound Solar should prove that Obama’s green energy loan guarantee program is neither cost efficient nor effective. Time and time again, our government has handed billions of dollars
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Interest in alternative financing methods is accelerating all over America. This is no accident. It is a direct reaction to the way banks seem to have shut their doors for good. If you’re not trying to borrow a million bucks, they don’t want to talk to you. Even if they do “open a dialogue” with you, the conversation often stalls out. At the same time, favored business projects and big businesses seem to be getting handout after handout from the government. What’s going on? A large part of what’s going on is regulation. Red tape,
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We know that we are often called upon to give to others: to take care of the needs of the poor and to help those who have experienced devastation and catastrophe. But the questionable practices of many charities and philanthropic organizations have left many of us with a bad taste in our mouths for charitable
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