Authored: January 16th, 2012 @ 11:39 AM
Join your friends and neighbors at your Local Republican Precinct Caucus! This is a great opportunity to discuss issues, choose delegates and party leadership and vote in the 2012 Republican Presidential Straw Poll.
Authored: January 10th, 2012 @ 6:10 PM
ECONOMICS / BUSINESS
For those who do not understand how onerous the Sarbanes-Oxley reporting requirements are might be mystified by company’s wishing to list on another stock market to avoid them (an only be required to use one of the generally accepted international accounting standards), I can say that a large portion of my time is spent complying and I’m in operations trying to run a shop floor, not in accounting. It’s one of the most severely unfavorable laws related to business ever passed and it’s application is even worse. I, like the author, have no faith that the gargantuan behemoth of legislation called Dodd-Franks will be any better.
Hooray for us! Because “[i]n the grand scheme of things, even the poorest 5% of Americans are better off financially than two thirds of the entire world,” it’s important to remember that anyone living in the U.S. needs to be careful of what they wish for when they start complaining about income inequality.
Very interesting, but I have problems with a priori projections be it from the Bureau of Labor Statistics or this guy. That being said, when you are dealing with a statistical estimate it’s absolutely important that you use the same methodology and measures; which could be a problem with the workforce participation number.
GENERAL INTEREST
Here’s the latest in MN redistricting.
Is this the legal principle on which ObamaCare will be decided? I hope not, because that opens up another try, with a clearly limited mandate.
The always well spoken George Will takes on progressive redistributive tax policy (with a link to a stunning prescient article from 2 Professors at the University of Chicago written in 1952).
I’m not even sure how we got to the point that this could be news. I was taught that social welfare programs were for the indigent, not the not-quite-as-good-off as they used to be.
This article is one of the few I’ve ever seen reference Herbert Croly, one of those great intellectual villains of the 20th century, with whom most are unacquainted. I also find the article prescient, as I also fear we may be heading in the direction of a bureaucratic-authoritarian regime, which destroyed the prospects of many South American countries for most of the last century.
Here’s an article that begs the question that needs an answer; why won’t Mitt Romney embrace Reaganomics, the supply-side bedrock of the conservative movement. Without it, he will remain unacceptable (as will Rick Santorum) to the fiscal conservatives in the Party.
Enjoy,
Stephen Kallestad
Northfield
Authored: January 5th, 2012 @ 7:01 PM
We are gearing up for the 2012 caucuses and conventions and we need your support! Come meet our local candidates and hopefully some statewide candidates/celebrities!
What’s Happening……
| Otto Luknic
507.210.9404 (cell) 720 Central Ave Faribault, MN 55021 |
Bron Scherer
507.649.1903 |
Together, we can make it happen!
Good morning again. As you may know, Otto is organizing a BPOU fund raiser to be held on Sunday, January 15, 2012 from 4:00-7:00 pm at the Faribault Eagles Club (2027 Grant St. NW (Highway 60 west). A meal will be served (sloppy joes, potato salad, cole slaw and coffee). Tickets are $10 and we are also looking for silent auction items to be donated. Our local elected officials will be there as well as hopefully some statewide candidates/celebrities. I have 100 tickets from Otto and would like some help selling tickets over the next week or so. Please let me know if you are able to help. We really need to replenish our coffers as we have quite a few expenses coming up (caucuses/bpou convention, etc.). Thank you in advance for your help. Together let’s make it happen. Bron.