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  • Haiti – After the Dust and Tears

    [This post by Mr Steven Frisch is an expansion of the comment thread for ‘Haiti and Compassion’.  Steve is the president of the Sierra Business Council and frequently offers a more progressive perspective to RR posts.  Here he kindly accepted my invitation to post his more comprehensive thoughts on post-disaster US policy toward Haiti.  gjr]…

  • Jobs Gone … and Coming

    George Rebane [This editorial appears today (16 January 2010) in The Union’s print and online (here) opinion sections.  This is the submitted version.] Some people around here have given up on real economic development for our county.  They see that the federal trough has been slopped and ready for all the little piggies who can recite…

  • ARRA for China? (updated)

    George Rebane It’s been about a year down the pike since the $787 billion American Redistribution and Re-election Act of 2009 was passed to claim the award as the greatest Congressional bum’s rush in history.  I wonder how this all strikes those holding their breath for the new green industries to be funded by such means.    …

  • Haiti and Compassion

    George Rebane The devastating earthquake on Tuesday (12jan10) that pretty much leveled the Port-au-Prince region of Haiti is almost too big to get my mind around.  Thinking about the real size of that disaster must include the world’s response to it, and it promises to be colossal. Haiti is a country that by all objective…

  • Ruminations – 12jan2009

    George Rebane Windfall profit taxes on bankers Green Banks fund green jobs We are now assured that the feds will slap an extra tax on “windfall profits” that banks make from future risky investments.  These are the kinds of government induced investments that inflated the last bubble of outlandish real estate prices and sophisticated (beyond…

  • Harry Reid being Screwed, Blued, and Tattooed

    George Rebane Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is being done dirty for his spot on assessment of candidate Barack Hussein Obama.  Obama’s candidacy was being framed in the aura of his ability to become the first ‘black’ president.  Actually, Obama is a mulatto, but in our society that makes him more black than white.  And…

  • Stimulus on Indefinite Hold

    George Rebane Can anyone still remember the dire consequences predicted last February when this $787 billion disaster was rushed through on a weekend?

  • Ruminations – 9jan2010

    George Rebane Pat Butler’s Nevada City Advocate Tea Party Patriots lunch Local cartoonist Robert Crabb’s iconic Nevada City Hall starship (nearby) gives a hint to the kwai loh as to how the city is viewed locally and with good reason.  My only nit with Crabb’s tag line is that Nevada City has already boldly gone…

  • No Line in the Sand

    George Rebane Paid tax preparers will now have to get certified by the IRS and keep their skills updated with continuing education.  This is yet another layer of government ‘protection’ for the consumer that is designed to raise costs, limit competition, and stifle innovation. This latest encroachment was announced by IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman who…

  • Obamacare on home stretch (Shhh!)

    George Rebane You would think that, after candidate Obama promised unprecedented transparency, the representatives of a free people would make sure that the transformation of one sixth of our economy into socialism would be exposed during its passage to every available instrument of advise and consent?  Check it out here.

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