CommentsDisplaying chrism's 10 most recent comments.

• The Ballooning Welfare State

  August 31, 2010 at 2:08am

  In reply to Philo Beddoe.

  I’m just trying to figure out why a family of four needs a house that costs $2500 a month.. Seems a bit much to me, but maybe you‘re talking about an area that’s a little overly extravagant for a $90k per year income.

• The Ballooning Welfare State

  August 31, 2010 at 1:50am

  In reply to Intelligentsia.

  I agree that some people take it to the extreme rather quickly when we talk about welfare programs, but unfortunately it is an emotional issue, and it’s hard for many to speak on it logically. The question, though, is how to make it better.

  When created, the welfare programs were to help veterans, and instead of having some type of sunset clause (as most bills created) it essentially used concrete to fix a broken window, and made a permanent ‘fix’. Welfare programs could be replaced by private companies if it were profitable. Now imagine if you could receive a tax break when you donated to a for-profit charity. Then we are using less government regulation as the charity is in control, so long as some percent (I’d say 75%-85%) of money donated was actually donated, or the charity would no longer receive the tax break.

  Now my idea is simple, and probably not the best, as I’m not an economist or anything, but these are the types of things we need to be thinking of instead of pointing fingers at each other.

• Homeowners Association Orders Cop to Remove ‘God Bless America’ Sign

  August 31, 2010 at 1:29am

  The constant struggles between home owners and various HOAs is why I don‘t give much thought to buying a home that falls under an HOA’s regulations. With that said, however unfortunate it may be, he did buy into it, and he should be willing to follow the rules of his contract. Now, most of those contracts will allow for some type of petition, and if he’s willing to do the work (and probably make sure he has a good design) he could probably get some variant of the sign allowed without all of the publicity. This screams out to me as an attempt at 15 minutes.