Anymore, We Don’t Value Our Citizens First

Anymore, it seems public figures and politicians are tripping over each other to highlight the need to care for illegal immigrants, or refugees of foreign wars, displaced individuals around the globe, or nearly anybody except “Joe Plumber,” citizen of the U.S.A. Continue reading

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Surveillance Keeps Power in Power

You are monitored everywhere – license plates on passing cars, cameras on roads, shopping malls, gas stations, airports. It has begun to bother me, yet my friends advise “If you’re not doing anything wrong, why do you care if you are monitored?” I now know why I care. Continue reading

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Guaranteed Returns: Loans and Zero Coupon Bonds

There are at least two ways to guarantee investment returns. Continue reading

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Trouble Today or Tomorrow

Thomas Paine wrote on December 23, 1776 in his first edition of “The Crisis”: Continue reading

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Pay back (Repay) salary to DFAS and you lose tax money

As a government civilian employee, if DFAS pays you too much in any given year and then later collects the amount back from you, there can be no way to recover up to $960 income tax you already paid on the amount. Continue reading

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