If only conceit could create jobs.

Posted on January 28, 2010 - Filed Under Jobs | 3 Comments

Click here to listen to the broadcast of You Tell Me on KTBB AM & FM, Friday, January 29, 2010. Two weeks ago, a friend of mine in Tyler, whom I’m going to call Bill, a good vendor to my company and a good businessman, called to tell me that he was shutting his doors. [...]

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Thomas Jefferson saw 220 years into the future.

Posted on January 21, 2010 - Filed Under Constitution, Government, Health Care | 2 Comments

Click here to listen to the broadcast of You Tell Me on KTBB AM & FM, Friday, January 22, 2010. “It is to me a new and consolatory proof that wherever the people are well-informed they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, [...]

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Health care costs? Don’t ask Congress. Ask a plumber.

Posted on January 15, 2010 - Filed Under Health Care | 3 Comments

Click here to listen to the broadcast of You Tell Me on KTBB AM  & FM, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. If history is a guide, by now, more than 14 months into a steep recession, a very sharp recovery should be underway. Businesses should be looking out and saying, “You know, Charlie over there has [...]

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Here comes the Tax Man.

Posted on January 4, 2010 - Filed Under Taxes | 2 Comments

Click here to listen to the broadcast of You Tell Me on KTBB AM & FM, Friday, January 8, 2010. We’re about to get walloped by taxes. Between the hidden taxes buried in looming health care reform, the targeting of those that earn $250,000 or more and the expiration at the end of this year [...]

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