August, 2010
Tea Party candidate loses to John McCain
Old dogs do have to learn new tricks. John McCain's main goal lately was to beat J.D. Hayworth, from the Tea Party, in the Arizona Republican Primary elections. Other individuals had candidates like McCain had. Luckily, John McCain was quite good at making sure his campaign went through. Hayworth could have to wait six ...
Criminals John McCluskey and Casslyn Welch arrested
The man hunt is over. Casslyn Welch and John McCluskey are back captured. For some reason, there are repeated comparisons to Clyde and Bonnie. 3 weeks ago, they escaped from a prison in Arizona. Places the two were thought to have been spotted in ranged from Yellowstone National Park to Arkansas. The two were captured ...
Forgetting to tell consumers about credit card limit drops
A final round of new credit card rules intended to protect consumers goes into effect on Aug. 22. Many of the credit card companies and banks are cutting credit limits, fees and rates on their credit in order to help bring these new laws into place. Slashing credit card limits is a common practice during ...
Deficit help from ending social security not wanted by Americans
The firm GfK Roper had a poll they did that was funded by AARP explaining that American's do not like the concept of helping the National deficit by cutting Social Security. The Huffington Post reports that polls results show that 85 percent of adults are against cutting Social Security. A large sample (72 percent) "strongly ...
Americans live in a plutonomy
It has been posited numerous times the United States functions as a "plutonomy." The word plutonomy is a portmanteau of "plutocracy" and "economy," meaning an economy based on a plutocracy, which means the richest few command the economy. It's been argued that it was always that way. Some just lately published figures indicate that recent ...
