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Chickens, Eggs, and Scott Brown: Examiner Article

Posted: April 24, 2010 by datechguy in blogger for hire, elections, opinion/news, tea parties
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My latest article for the examiner, Chickens, Eggs and Scott Brown, is up an excerpt:

Politics and money, they go together like bacon and eggs, vodka and caviar, beer commercials and scantly clad ladies. It is inconceivable that you will see one without the other.

Once your candidate gets donated money, the questions arise: Did they support a position because of the money or did their support cause the money to come?

And that is the chair where the favorite candidate of Tea Party members all over Massachusetts and the nation, Scott Brown, finds himself today.

Please head on over and read the whole thing. If you subscribe to my articles over there that certainly won’t hurt my bottom line either.

And thanks to everyone who read my first Examiner article. It’s all about respect as well.

Update: Oh and in case it wasn’t clear from the article I don’t trust the new regulations, I’m glad Brown is opposing them and I don’t care that Goldman gave him 5k or so.

I know I’m just a fat man in a Fedora…

Posted: April 21, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…but wasn’t the whole idea of the bailouts to make banks etc solvent so they could make profits?

If a business makes profits they can hire workers. If they hire workers these people get paid, if they get paid they spend money and pay taxes.

If I’m not mistaken these are good things.

I didn’t agree with the bank bailouts nor how they were done, but if they were going to be done I presume this the above is the goal. If it was not then what was the point?

A few years ago I talked to a young lady who was in college, very nice girl. She was talked about her degree program she was studying finance, and was ridden quite a bit because she was not going into a field that “helped” people, the enviousness etc…I reminded her that she was in fact doing so. If she did her job properly, people could retire, go to college and have investment to make a business. It was those profits that allowed so much good.

None of this is possible without profit, the day we consider it a dirty word is the day we begin our final decline.

Morning Joe has Chris Christie on right now…

Posted: April 13, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…a million union leaders are going to be jumping off the bridge after this interview.

This guy had the answers to every question. When he said that teachers put in nothing to their pensions and he listed the benefits that was a body blow that it will be hard to spin, even to the MSNBC viewer.

They touched on the Teachers union “Praying for his death” business that was mentioned at Sister Toldjah mentioned here. Christie said the head of the union showed up to apologize, Christie said he suggested they show the apology was sincere by asked for that person’s resignation. The Union head stormed out.

If this is how Christie carries himself, the GOP should have him on every network show possible.

Ever have one of those days…

Posted: April 1, 2010 by datechguy in employment
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…when you just feel the grip of despair around your neck?

For whatever reason feeling that D-Day is coming seems particularly acute today. Not particularly sure why.

I guess I’d better spend less time worrying and more time hussling.

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