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US Congress & The American Taxpayer; A Relationship?

InCoop — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 03:50:20 +0000

Fox Guarding The Henhouse Always Results in Tragedy The discourse voiced by the American public has become eerily similar to the divided Senate and House of Representatives. Senate - A Divided House "A 53-to-44 vote defeated a proposed 10-percent tax break in the Small Business Jobs and Tax Relief Act that would have encouraged new hires. The outcome [...]

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Notice: Bush Administration Added $4 Trillion To National Debt

InCoop — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:38:56 +0000

The Trouble With News Is That It Gets Old, But Doesn't Go Away! Fact: On the day President G.W. Bush took office, the national debt stood at $5.727 trillion. Fact: With Social Security removed from the equation, there was a surplus of $1.9 billion in fiscal 1999 and $86.4 billion in fiscal 2000. The party [...]

Tags: Barack Obama, Bureau of Public Debt, Bush, Bush-era, Debt Ceiling, George W Bush, Government debt, National Debt, Obama, Republican, Romney, United States, United States public debt

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Will Any Party Stand Up For The American People?

InCoop — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 21:55:43 +0000

Are Politicians Battling for "Votes" Concerned With "The People"? Dems' aim: Close the enthusiasm gap In the wake of the RNC, and on the verge of the DNC, at 63 days and counting down, voters will be bombarded by both of the prominent political parties with vehement and often untrue politically disparaging ads until the "General Election" on November [...]

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Why Does America Pay More At the Pump?

InCoop — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 03:15:00 +0000

Oil Futures Trading Contracts & Refinery Fires - Local Gasoline Effect? Gold Standard - Oil Climb Continues on Futures Trading Influence The price to purchase oil products and its derivative, gasoline, continues to climb at an alarming rate. Bright Hub's Tim Plaehn opines that "the price of oil futures provide an immediate picture on the cost of energy. A look at [...]

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What Do You Think America Needs?

InCoop — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:09:30 +0000

Congressional Approval Rating Continues Decline Let's Start With More "Conservative Democrats", and More "Liberal Republicans"! What Do We Have? In A Few Words, A Divided Nation! Recent years have delivered an America torn apart by class warfare, gigantic social issues and all types of economy related fiscal divides. All illustrated by the intransigence and partisan politics of [...]

Tags: 2010 mid-term elections, Alberto Gonzales, Arizona, Centrist Policy, Citizen's United, Congress, Daily Kos, Executive Branch, Executive privilege, George W Bush, Harriet Miers, individual mandate, IRS, Jeffrey Toobin, Joshua Bolten, Judicial Activism, Judicial Restraint, Mitch McConnell, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Obama, Public Policy Polling, Republican, SCOTUS, SEIU, Supreme Court of the United States

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Wrong Headed, Wrong Candidate, Wrong Message America?

InCoop — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:13:11 +0000

"If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down," Fit to legislate? American Voter You be the Judge... Seems many gaffes are routinely caught by the incessant view of the media. Whether it is on or off camera, mike, or podium. There is seldom a time [...]

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Next “How To” Best Seller – “Buying An Election!

InCoop — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 06:34:54 +0000

The "New" Constitution Embraces (Any Money) To Buy An Election.... Right? With the 2012 election day closing in, candidates from both parties begin to ramp up the political rhetoric. Rousing American voters from the comfort of their living rooms, engaging "Idol", "Survivor" & "NCIS" addictions will 'cost' politicians very large sums of money, and will not be easy. [...]

Tags: American Jobs, Articles of Confederation, Bain Capital, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney

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Keystone XL Pipeline – Is it ‘Key’ to Energy Independence or Environmental Disaster?

InCoop — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 22:48:42 +0000

To Key or Not to Key? What Kind of Tomorrow Does Pipeline Create Today? The Keystone XL Pipeline controversy questions many aspects affecting business, economics, and energy independence in an increasingly volatile world. Evaluating the project will require decisions linking today and tomorrow, business, economic interests, and political concerns. Weighing job creation, environmental considerations, and energy [...]

Tags: Canada, China, Congress, Congressional, Keystone, Keystone Pipeline, Keystone XL, Mexico, Middle East, PRC, Saudi Arabia, United States

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Jury Is In “Tax Cuts For All Americans”, Just Not “Poor & Middle America”

InCoop — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:49:56 +0000

Read my Lips, NO NEW Taxes! Except on You Over There, the POOR ! Present day tax mantra; Tax cuts, combined with massive spending cuts to social programs, and sustained defense spending levels can solve the federal deficit, sounds like a Republican recipe for disaster. For the uninformed, the vast majority of Republicans in Congress [...]

Tags: Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist, Jeb Bush, Middle class, Mitt Romney, Republicans, Romney, Tax cut, Tax Policy Center, University of Connecticut School of Law

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Returning A Nation To The “Middle America” Loves

InCoop — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:30:08 +0000

“Middle America” Wants America Back The rancor, derision, and divisiveness that has become a symbol of the alienated political compost employed by current politicians, is far removed from what America loves. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and John Fitzgerald Kennedy, politicians all, yet leaders somehow able to capture the hearts, minds, and political will of a [...]

Tags: Barack Obama, Donald L. Barlett, Economics, George Washington, government, Huffington Post, Immigration reform, Mitt Romney, politicians, politics, President Abraham Lincoln, Roger B. Taney, Stephen Douglas, United States Constitution

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Leadership In America – Don’t You Deserve the Truth?

InCoop — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:16:31 +0000

American Leadership failures quite often present glaring errors in judgement, acumen, and acceptability. I'm Afraid of America - Baby Crying Leadership Errors - Lead to War Political parties and candidates continue to push people into the public arena who are sorely lacking the skills required of leaders. Zealots capable of lying, deceit, casting blame and aspersions, and misleading a completely [...]

Tags: Dick Cheney, Ed Rollins, George W Bush, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Huma Abedin, John Boehner, John Kerry, John McCain, Michele Bachmann, Washington Post

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America, One Bag – Many Flavors! Diversity Through Education & Immigration Reform

InCoop — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:01:30 +0000

Improve Education and Immigration Reform Enhance Economic Performance America (Photo credit: acb) Improving education and increasing access to the cream of the creative, innovative, and entrepreneurial crop must become the primary thrust in American economic recovery, both in the short and long-term. Craig R. Barrett, Former CEO and Chairman at Intel reminds us that "To compete [...]

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Whistleblower Errors Cost Who? Congress Underfunds Watchdogs

InCoop — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:53:39 +0000

Drinking From The Taxpayer Fountain Government Watchdog Agencies, like SEC, OCC, and GAO most often fail in their appointed missions Congressional leaders cite many failures by government watchdog agencies as just cause for reducing budgets while simultaneously expanding the enforcement and detection roles which the agencies are responsible for. A recently denied budget request by the Security and Exchange Commission [...]

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Wall Street & Ethics, Everyone Knew Better

InCoop — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:43:31 +0000

Wall Street & Ethics? Everyone Knew Better Han Shan, an Occupy Wall Street protester, makes a 1 percent shirt while protesting outside of the annual Bank of America Corp. shareholders meeting on May 9, in Charlotte, NC. (Getty Images) Multiple issues came to light in the wake the 2007-08 domestic recession. Over-leveraged, under-capitalized Wall Street operators placed "profit" [...]

Tags: Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, Ethics, Financial services, Getty Images, JPMorgan Chase, London Interbank Offered Rate, New York Times, Occupy Wall Street, Royal Bank of Scotland, United States, Wall Street

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Houston, We Have a Problem! Dour Economic News Revealed

InCoop — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 04:10:45 +0000

Houston, We Have a Problem! U.S. Household net worth graphic (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Anyone slightly familiar with a long-lost era in the American ontological can experiment can attest to the downward spiral economics, recession, and the brutal fiscal attack mounted on the middle-class by a rising 1% population, the space race, recalls that when the [...]

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Business and Education, News & Global Growth

InCoop — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:01:18 +0000

Business, and Education education (Photo credit: Sean MacEntee) The notion that education is the key to future competitiveness in the global business environment is neither new nor novel. Participant’s in a forum hosted by the Business Round-table (BRT) state; “In today’s world, where education and skill levels decide future earnings, the economic and social costs to people, [...]

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Where’s the Common Sense, I Mean Really?

InCoop — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 01:52:08 +0000

Convicted Sex Offender on School Board,I Mean Really? Goodbye Sex Offenders, We'll Always Have Twitter - The Controverse 54 REMIX (Photo credit: oxmour) America it must be asked now, given the scenario happening in the Granite-School District. So the question is, are we as a society are now willing to expose our kids to a convicted sex offender? [...]

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Business, Politics, Education & Immigration Reform

InCoop — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 03:24:08 +0000

BERLIN - NOVEMBER 03: German Chancellor Angela Merkel (2nd from R) poses with immigrant group delegates at the 4th summit on the integration of foreigners in Germany at the Chancellery (Bundeskanzleramt) on November 3, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The summit comes on the heels of recent heated public debates on immigration policy and the integration of [...]

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GOP Lawmaker, Berates his Opponents Military Service

InCoop — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:15:45 +0000

Lawmaker, Joe Walsh, Berates Double Amputee In a startling op-ed, Agence France-Presse reports an event which flys in the face of decency. Representative Joe Walsh of Illinois enraged veterans with comments about Tammy Duckworth, a decorated U.S. Army pilot who in 2004 lost both her legs and nearly died when the Blackhawk helicopter she was co-piloting [...]

Tags: Agence France-Presse, Barack Obama, Duckworth, Huffington Post, Illinois, Iraq, Iraqi insurgency, Joe Walsh, John McCain, Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk, Tammy Duckworth, United States, Veteran, Walsh

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Taxpayer Funds Wall Street, “Best & Brightest” Reap Undeserved Benefit

InCoop — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:33:17 +0000

Everyone, Even Wall Street Business' Falls back on the Taxpayer: Addendum Despite the luxury props, expensive dinners, and automobiles, it seems that even Wall Street looks to continue raiding the coffers of the American taxpayer. Despite as reported in a CNNMoney article, “Opinion: End Wall Street's welfare hypocrisy” Octavio Blanco reports that “manufacturing activity unexpectedly contracted in June [...]

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