Residential Electric Rates By State JAN 2011 Most Expensive Electric Prices [Cents per kilowatthour] [Deregulated, yes or no] 1. Hawaii – 30.13 (no) 2. Connecticut – 18.03 (yes) 3. New York – 17.40 (yes) 4. Alaska – 16.61 (no) 5. New Hampshire – 16.34 (yes) 6. Rhode Island – 16.21 (yes) 7. New Jersey – [...]

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House Oversight Committee – The Future Of The Osprey V-22 [June 23, 2009] On 18 February 2011, Marine Commandant General Jim Amos indicated Marine MV-22s deployed to Afghanistan surpassed 100,000 flight hours and were noted as having become “the safest airplane, or close to the safest airplane” in the Marine Corps inventory (Source: Wikipedia). This [...]

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T minus zero $$$$$ The Endeavour successfully launched on 5/16/2011. The liftoff of the Endeavour was witnessed by thousands of people at Cape Canaveral and some said they had goosebumps during the process. The excitement that a launch creates is unquestionable. But can America really afford a space program anymore? Has the program served its [...]

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Leaked: Pay-by-the-mile-tax You have had enough of the Wall Strret fat cats and you’ve had it with the oil speculators. Right? What better way to beat them than by going out and buying yourself a new electric car. It requires no gas and this frees you from those money addicts. Right? The feds now have [...]

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Obama Doesn’t Care If 8.9 Million Residents Freeze The winter of 2011 has been a brutal one. Atlanta has iced over several times. Chicago has fought a blizzard. Tulsa is getting blanketed again. Road crews are busier than ever. Yet President Obama has come up with one way to slash the budget. He wants to cut [...]

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The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business Why is Wal-Mart so big and how did it get that way? Do you really know anything about the retail giant? Professor Nelson Lichtenstein tries to explain the background of Wal-Mart. If you’re interested at all about business and Big Box stores in [...]

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DIY Approach Versus National Chain Companies California is offering assistance for free tax filing. Workers that made less than $49,000 can get their taxes done for free. Californians are in company with tax clients from other states that are searching for money saving alternatives. Recessions and depressions, your preference of definition, demand action. Struggling families across the United [...]

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Best Undergrad Degrees From PayScale Best Undergrad College Degrees By Salary Click on chart for full details. Success is not always measured in the biggest paycheck but getting a degree that is applicable does matter. Here are the degrees that pay the most cash. It seems that engineers make the most, but there is plenty [...]

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Raising Taxes Has Become The Third Rail Of Politics Raising taxes is considered somewhat of a faux paux for Republicans in the White House. Democrats often rail on Reaganomics and the Trickle-down theory. But what do the Democrats intend do to about it? Instead of confronting the tax problem, Democrats opt to go along with it. Both parties [...]

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Spending cuts will push up unemployment to almost 3 million “Unemployment is not yet, but bids fair to be, the greatest of the British industries,” as was published in the Manchester Guardian in 1928. By the end of 1928, 1.2 million Brits were out of work. The national unemployment rate was 12.2%. In Wales and in [...]

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