A cartoon provides a clear understanding of government efficiency, an oxymoron for all time!.

Sounds reasonable to me and I am sure that many in the U.S. agree and that it is a position that transcends political affiliation, socio-economic positioning, race, gender, age and various other demographic divisions in the country. Ray Rice, Ray MacDonald, Greg Hardy, Chris Brown, Charlie Sheen, Sean Penn Steven Seagall, Judge Mark Fuller, the list goes on and on. The famous people of...

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The unemployment rate fell in June and that is a good thing!There are reasons for the decline some of those reasons are readily apparent and some of those reasons are below the surface of the data and need to be ferreted out. The political messaging and rhetoric from all sectors of the political spectrum continue to use the jobs report, the unemployment rate, the overall economic recovery and...

A lot of folks here and o other sites regularly state that they want to talk about facts, rather than spin, opinions and distortion.But when given an article of containing facts about the current economic situation in the U.S. and asked to share what they conclude from the facts (extracted from the government web site) no one has anything to say.There is no one to bash, no one to blame, no one...

Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" is one of my favorite poems.I have come to think of one line in particular "Good fences make good neighbors" when getting along with individuals proved especially challenging, whether literally neighbors or simply people that I interact with either professionally, socially or simply by chance.NewsTalkers is no different from any other neighborhood and sometimes it...

I find it tiresome and annoying that many people do not want to discuss issues or postulate possible solutions and pathways to change regardless of the subject offered in an original article or a seeded article from the media. Instead most threads degenerate to blaming someone for what happened rather than talking about what needs to be done (other than getting the bums (right or left) out of...