Political Equinox

He’s arguably one of the biggest names in renewable energy lately, as over the past few weeks he’s attempting to make himself a household name with a $58 million advertising blitz. The man’s name is T. Boone Pickens, and the self-proclaimed oil man brings an interesting proposal to the table just months before the ever-important presidential election.

While you have to give the man credit for bringing a well-conceived proposal to the table of this perpetual brainstorming session, he only scores just over half. In short, his idea of revitalizing the middle portion of the country by bringing “green jobs” (Sorry, but I couldn’t resist throwing in a few words Hillary Clinton buzzword vocabulary) to rural towns and utilizing the wind …

Tags: America, Gas, Hillary Clinton, natural gas, Oil, president, renewable energy, t boone pickens, wind power

Political statement or algorithm? I’ll give Google the benefit of the doubt and say algorithm.

Tags: Bush, george bush

Presumptive nominee Barack Obama promises a windfall profits tax on American Oil companies. He claims this will force them to bring jobs back overseas and that the proposed tax will help the middle class, but Obama seems to be missing a major point in the situation.

Like many companies in America, a majority of these companies are traded on a stock exchange, whether that be AMEX, NYSE, or NASDAQ. Therefore, when these publicly traded corporations make a profit, those profits head to the shareholders in the form of dividends. And when they don’t get dividends, the value of the company often rises which gives the shareholder an increased value for their shares. (Sorry to go through the stock market tutorial, but …

Tags: America, Barack Obama, Gas, IRS, Middle Class, obama, Oil, president, taxes

I’ve decided that I can’t keep bashing the Democrat’s Universal (Socialized - you can call it whatever you like, but it is what it is) Healthcare Plan without offering up a solution of my own. Now let me start by saying that I’m open to changing this plan. In fact, I’m all for scrapping the entire plan or at least large parts of it. But this the best solution I’ve been able to come up with that continues on with the free market American way (controlled with a standardized plan, mind that) and maintains the high-quality of healthcare in this country.

I’m come up with a plan that mixed the current system with some of the elements I feel are the …

Tags: America, controller general, david walker, Democrats, financial, health insurance, healthcare, healthcare costs, IRS, medicare, ny times, social security, socialized medicine, Universal Healthcare

Pretty scary when this guy gets going into his charts, graphs, facts, and figures. It’s not like he’s an activist either - he’s the government’s top accountant.

Tags: controller general, david walker, federal budget, federal deficit, medicare, social security