Posts tagged with ‘washington dc’

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The Payroll Tax Needs a Vacation

June 26, 2011

This guy is right on the money. Everyone forgets that after an 8 year economic growth cycle, our deficits turned to surpluses because tax revenues went up so much. Greenspan was on Capitol Hill screaming that we should have paid down the National Debt. It will happen again… IF we get employment up. Cutting payroll [...]

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God Bless the Soldiers

August 25, 2010

Just watched the movie “We Were Soldiers” again. Check out this post: http://www.galago.net/blog/travel/god-bless-ed-freeman Panel 3, East, at the Vietnam War Memorial has the names of the soldiers that died at LZ XRay in Ia Drang Valley.

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Steve Wynn on Washington

August 6, 2010

Here’s an interview with Steve Wynn from May of 2010. He talks about how badly Washington is damaging the economy by overspending and by making bad decisions that create uncertainty. Most of what he says is very accurate, and his comments about moving his company’s headquarter to Asia because “that’s where the opportunity is” strikes [...]

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W in DC

April 9, 2010

Funny quote from the Conde Nast Traveler Article about Michelle & DC: “George W. Bush, in bed every night by 9:30, had no use for grass-fed beef or freshly picked chanterelles—even less for taking his wife out to an environmentally responsible restaurant tucked into the artistic hub of D.C.’s well-established gay and lesbian scene. In [...]