Cheating

Here’s one way to do it.  You own a small business which in turns owns a building you partially use.  You go to the bank for a loan and bank says you are already over extended with your building mortgage payments.  What do you do? You say no problem.  You sell off the building, pay [...]

Right to Work Compromise?

It is not clear at all whether a compromise in the standoff with Governor Scott Walker is possible.  It could be his way or the highway.  But consider this… Collective bargaining is a bed rock principle with American labor.  With a rich history of weak kneed or unabashedly opportunistic State political leaders, unionized State workers [...]

What’s Missing?

Politics and life in general are missing something today.  It certainly is not rage.  We have all too much of that.  It certainly is not tragedy.  We have too much of that too.  It is not the unexplained either.  That happens all the time. Is it the sense of helplessness?  Is it a paucity of [...]

DOMA Red Meat

Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, has spoken.  He has called for the GOP to nominate someone in 2012 who will put as a top priority the enforcement of DOMA.  Perkins joins a long list of terribly confused people who think that marriages are sacred, are the best and only example of how to [...]

DOMA – The End?

Big news today, well, at least fighting for front page space with the turmoil in Libya and the standoff with Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin, was the Justice Department’s announcement that it would no longer “defend” the Defensive of Marriage Act.  I wonder why? Could it be that marriage is no longer considered “sacred” and [...]

Does Majority Rule?

Most of us have been brought up to understand that if a majority votes for something, that’s the way it will be.  So what’s the big deal in Wisconsin.  Republicans won the election and now have a majority.  Why can’t they repeal collective bargaining for State workers? Well, there are two views on this subject.  [...]

Affordability

There is an ethics debate underway.  It may not be phrased that way.  It is more often referred to as an “affordability” issue.  Of course, I am referring to health care and its availability to all Americans. The affordability side points out that good health care is costly.  They claim that making it available to [...]

Customer, Service, and Care

Universal health care may not be the slam dunk answer to our current health care problems.  If you have great insurance coverage today, you probably do not see any problems anyways.  But with the US system the costliest in the world, not covering everyone, and with health outcomes below almost all other modern countries, I [...]

Rape or Negotiations?

Wisconsin has captured the eyes of the nation.  It might have preferred that its cheese or Green Bay Packers have been responsible.  That was not the case and now Wisconsin finds itself between a rock and a hard place. In the last election, Republicans swept to power in what is usually thought of as a [...]

Guidance

The huffers and puffers are taking center stage in Washington.  There, they proclaim their views on rescuing the Country from the deficit.  Some look to discretionary spending for their headlines.  Others zero in on Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid.  In separation, they all look silly.  In combination, there appears to be the basis for a serious [...]