Archive for 2013

The Land of the Walking Dead

The Land of the Walking Dead

Imagine a land with 47 million people who can’t afford food on their table. A new apocalypse movie blockbuster? It’s worse than that … it’s the United States of America — today. We have become The Land of the Walking Dead.

The Weekly Standard revealed that the United States Department of Agriculture “quietly released new statistics related to the food stamps program, officially known as SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). The numbers reveal, in 2012, the food stamps program was ...

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Made in America Panel Urges Veto of Interstate Sales Taxes for Internet Retailers

Made in America Panel Urges Veto of Interstate Sales Taxes for Internet Retailers

Neal Asbury opened his nationally syndicated “Neal Asbury’s Made in America” show on Radio America (now on 44 stations) by making reference to the nation’s bipolar economy where the DOW is soaring while there are no jobs. Meanwhile, the nation added another $1 trillion in taxes.

Co-host Dr. Rich Roffman concurred, adding that there are 47 million Americans on food stamps and 89 million can’t find jobs.  What’s more, government spending has continued to increase—adding perhaps an additional 62 percent over ...

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Raising the Minimum Wage Brings Minimum Benefits

Raising the Minimum Wage Brings Minimum Benefits

The president made the case during his most recent State of the Union address that the way to prosperity was to raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour by 2015, from $7.25, where it has been since 2009. The rationale is that raising the minimum wage would help the middle class and businesses alike.

If that were the case, how do we explain the fact that since the federal minimum wage was instituted in 1938, it has been raised ...

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Made in America Panel Concurs that Small Business Must Fight Against Government Interference that Hampers Job Creation

Made in America Panel Concurs that Small Business Must Fight Against Government Interference that Hampers Job Creation

Neal Asbury opened his nationally syndicated “Neal Asbury’s Made in America” show on Radio America (now on 44 stations) by making reference to a Reader’s Digest story that estimated that the U.S. government wastes more than $1 trillion a year. He added that when you factor in the $1 trillion of regulations costs directly affecting American business productivity, more than $2 trillion is being taken out of the economy, and along with it, U.S. jobs.

Joining the show as a first ...

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Our Bipolar Economy

Our Bipolar Economy

For the 26 million unemployed and underemployed Americans, this economy has got to be mind-blowing. On one hand, the Shadow Government Statistics’ “Alternate Unemployment Rate” remained at 23 percent in January, its highest level ever.

On the other hand, the Dow Jones Industrial Average just zoomed past 14,000, hitting record highs.

In addition, Dean Maki, chief U.S. economist at Barclays, is quoted as saying: “As a percentage of national income, corporate profits stood at 14.2 percent in the third quarter of 2012, ...

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