Ken Martin's Blog

This Ken Martin from Minnesota (who is not the MN DFL chair) would be just fine with Tim Pawlenty becoming U.S. president, thank you. “That” Ken Martin has been mentioned here before, for his campaigning for the very bad idea called the ”Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment.” Which, sadly, passed.

This one is more fun. :) Philadelphia July 3d. 1776 Had a Declaration of Independency been made seven Months ago, it would have been attended with many great and glorious Effects …. We might before this Hour, have formed Alliances with foreign States. — We should have mastered Quebec and been in Possession of Canada [...]

July 1 1776 A Resolution of the Convention of Maryland, passed the 28th. of June was laid before Congress and read: as follows: That the Instructions given to their Deputies in December last, be recalled, and the restrictions therein contained, removed, and that their Deputies be authorised to concur with the other Colonies, or a [...]

Dear Congresswoman McCollum, Please consider voting no or abstaining from voting on the “Cap and Trade” bill so quickly coming to a vote today. I have a family of eight in your district. The CBO estimates concerning the financial impact on my family have varied wildly – from $7,000 to $700 for a family of [...]

While I well understand that things were a little tense when President Obama spoke at Notre Dame’s commencement, one would think that grads at this level might have put a little more thought into the counter-protest: Obama entered the arena to thunderous applause and a standing ovation from many in the crowd of 12,000. But as [...]

OK, folks. This will take about one minute and you don’t need your thinking cap. It’s about budgets and stimulus and stuff. Total U. S. Population: $280,000,000 Proposed 2010 U.S. spending: $3,400,000,000,000 So, 2010 per person (man, woman, and child) spending: $12,000 Average number of people in a family: 3.1 So, 2010 per family spending [...]

Two images. Interesting juxtaposition, I think. Especially considering President Obama’s recent words: “It’s with a budget that leads to broad economic growth by moving from an era of borrow and spend to one where we save and invest.” (Emphasis mine.) First, our projected deficit: And then this: Updated: A couple more recent quotes from President [...]

Well, probably. But I saw this commentary on the economic plan by Jim Cramer of Mad Money With Jim Cramer (a show which I’ve only seen when I travel because long ago I trimmed down my cable… see post below). Basically, he’s really worried about the “stimulus plan”, too. And if you read the article, you [...]

So, let me get the straight. Those who are close to defaulting on their mortgages (and also those who have defaulted?) can get their mortgage interest rates reduced to a set percentage of their income. “The Treasury Department” would subsibize this: For a loan modification, lenders would have to reduce the mortgage payments to no [...]

Sigh.