C'mon, Notredamemom, when was the last time you discovered a government agency making sure money is well-spent. About as close you can come is they are famous for ensuring that it is ALL SPENT! Setting back and relying on a government panel to decide that it is time the only treatment is to take a pain pill and call the undertaker in the morning, is what would be absurd. IPAB would function as a death panel, there's no doubt about it, Of course they could also make other decisions that a free market is also capable of making.

(cut off again): false pretenses during the campaign. Tomorrow's SOTU address ought to be a dilly, filled with his lies as usual. Listen to Senator Rand Paul's rebuttal to get the real story.

This is pretty much proof that Obama isn't an idiot. He knows that some people realize what he's been doing, despite the fact that he says he is doing just the opposite. He's squeezing out the military, financially, by the sequestration and other budget decisions, as he wants it weakened, while he strengthens his own private army. He also knows that he has to confiscate privately-owned firearms before he makes his move to be dictator, or he won't succeed. He's already doing away with senior military officers who won't assure him that they will direct their troops to fire on U.S. citizens if so ordered (probably while forcibly confiscating privately-owned firearms). This is a real ringer that half the population forced on us, under fals

Sounds fine, and the idea of having a farmette for subsistence is what I have in mind. But how can we count on the internet being a survivor? It is dependent on Government for existing, and the ads provide the funds for continuing programming and service. If the economy dumps, ads will be gone, since trade will most likely come to a screeching halt. The best country to locate to has been described as Uruguay. Right now, at least. Sure, you'd have to learn Spanish, but we've had to acquire some of the basics in this country already. The climate is good, and the country's stability is attractive right now.

To finish the post (cut short by Mr. Software, apparently) NRA has, or had, a RINO on their board who stabbed gunners in the back by supporting anti-gun legislation by in-house endorsement of said legislation. I've also learned that NRA schmoozes the beltway circles parties and in order to keep the invitations coming, and they betray their members in many ways. It's sort of like a money-raiser for cancer research that spends most of its donations on promotional expenses but convinces its donors that it's still a good charity because otherwise none of the money would be donated.

While the NRA is the most widely-known pro-gun organization, it is not gunners' best friend. I dropped my membership years ago, when NRA was supporting CARA, supposedly to open up more land to hunting and fishing. But it would have done just the opposite, since the government's buying up private acreages (where most owners allowed hunting and shooting) and giving it to The Nature Conservancy (famous for closing up their lands except to educational visits) would result in a net loss of dollars and a net loss of open hunting and shooting opportunities. Other gun organizations, like NAGR, CCRKBA, and SAF agreed with me and did not support CARA. To top that off, NRA donates money (your dues, members) to Democrats as well as to Republicans.

This is a much more meaty subject from Mr. Payne than a few years ago when he was touting INFOSEARCH on CNBC. I agree that one must, if one wants to be more efficient, consider the state-by-state taxation burden on their take-home pay. It used to be that CA had a low income tax and a fairly low sales tax, but that has all changed. The only redeeming feature CA offers its residents is Prop-13, the property tax limitation that was enacted in 1978 and was pushed by Howard Jarvis. It is responsible for keeping property taxes low and limited, enabling fixed-incomers to manage their property taxes. Of course, user fees went through the roof, but they are paid by those who get a direct benefit from the costs, rather than from "everybody."

Obama's flapping gums (to quote Judge Marilyn Milian) are meaningless to anyone who is looking for the truth. When enough people learn that he speaks with forked tongue, he will be discarded as the trash he has always been. Then we can look for a recovery.

(continued) that the young couple would bring groceries to the elderly lady every week. That was a deal not designed to promote longevity. (is there a word limitation on these replies, the above wouldn't go any farther)

Good thought, we must spend billions to keep that from happening - NOT. The whole amorphous global warming scam is just slightly less silly. That's just like ObamaCare, in that it is about POWER, not affordable health care. Also GUN control, same deal. How about this as a money-raising idea for the libs: Take out a term life policy on selected members of the public. That alone should shorten their life span considerably. When they meet their demise, the Treasury gains accordingly. That sounds like an elderly lady who lived on a semi-remote homestead in the Southwest. A young couple bought her land subject to the elderly lady's life estate, meaning that the lady could live on the property until her demise. But part of the deal was