Jul

22

Newark mayor says No toilet paper for city offices

July 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment

In an attempt to fill a $70 million budget hole, Newark's mayor is taking dramatic action in regards to the town's budget. He is even going so far as to cut toilet paper from the 2010 budget. The reductions include not buying toilet paper for city offices, cutting the work week to four days for [...]

Jun

8

How to Afford Anything

June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/how-to-afford-anything.htm The point here is that you shouldn't skimp on the items you really want. In his cases nice cars and cameras, just so you can have a decent house and a new mid-size car. The difference is frugal vs cheap. I'm thinking about this as I contemplate a $2700 treadmill and $1000 TV for [...]

Feb

19

President orders debt panel

February 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment

President Obama has issued an executive order that creates a bipartisan fiscal commission, the first step in deciding painful decisions that are needed to get the U.S. debt under control. The commission has to deliver a report to the president by Dec. 1 that makes recommendations for bringing annual deficits to no more than 3% [...]

Aug

13

5 School Cutbacks Students Will Feel

August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment

MSN has an interesting article that is worth a read. As students get ready to return to school, school boards are dealing with huge budget shortfalls and they have to make some painful cuts. Cutting school budgets is probably one of the worst places we can cut spending. The old saying that children are our [...]

Jul

9

Pro-Marijuana Ad Pushes Pot As Budget Fix

July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment

A pro-marijuana group is launching another television bid to legalize pot in California, but this time their pitch is that legalizing and taxing the drug could help solve the state's massive budget deficit. And California needs to do something drastic, now more than ever. The 30-second ad aired on Wednesday and features a retired 58-year-old [...]

May

7

Obama Vows To Cut Government Waste

May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Looks like I was right on target with my article about cutting waste in the goverment. On Thursday President Obama vowed to cut "stunning" waste in the US government budget, as he laid out details of his sweeping budget for 2010. "There is a lot of money being spent inefficiently, ineffectively, and — in some [...]

Aug

21

Spending More on Luxuries Than Necessities

August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

America is supposedly in a recession and people are suffering.  Parents can't afford to send their kids to school in new clothes and people are starving to death because they can't afford the gas to drive to the grocery store.  I think the news (as usual) is making a crisis where none exists.  The only [...]