• The Lure of Multi-Level Marketing

    I constantly marvel at how multi-level marketing (MLM) can continue to lure in millions of people a year, who collectively pump billions of dollars into these losers. Time and again, industry experts calculate a failure rate of 99% (failure = […]

  • The UFF Money Merge Account Money Shuffle Explained

    Guest post by Joe Taxpayer As I looked at multiple United First Financial agents’ sites, I found the common thread was the claim that one simply can’t do this on their own, that the shifting of funds from a checking […]

  • Cookies and Coffee Now Mean “Come Join Our Church.”

    From the “how many ways can we waste taxpayer dollars” file… Daniel B. Kapustin has filed a complaint with the state’s Government Accountability board about the September 9 elections held at Christ the King Lutheran Church in Delafield. City buildings […]

  • Mark Cuban’s Idea On a Private Bailout of the Financial Sector

    Mark Cuban has an idea: Let’s scrap this government bailout of the financial sector and instead make it private. Create an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) that buys the distressed securities these companies want to get rid of, as well as […]

  • The problem is not the funding formula!

    Tonight the Milwaukee Public Schools board met to discuss the possibility of dissolving the district. The consensus is that they can’t do it. But the sheer ignorance is stunning. The sound bytes from board members went like this: “The problem […]

  • Somebody please check Henry Paulson

    This whole “bailout” of the financial sector bothers me. It bothers me that as a taxpayer, I will be on the hook for a nice chunk of the $500 billion to $1 trillion that this will cost. (And the way […]

  • Bailout to Include Consumer Debt?

    The Wall Street bailout, publicly estimated to cost taxpayers somewhere between $700 billion and $1 trillion or more, could end up to be bigger than we ever imagined. Now added to the bailout plan: student loans, auto loans, credit card […]

  • Would You Sleep on a Wet Mattress for 59 Days for $295,000?

    How much money would it take for you to agree to sleep on a wet matress for 59 days?  The mattress keeps getting wet over the 59 days, so it gets a little moldy and a little smelly. But would […]

  • The End of Life As We Know It

    We now have a Socialist marketplace. I thought that the Democrats were the ones who would lead us there, but I was wrong. It is a Republican administration that has taken us down this road to ruin. No longer does […]

  • Dissolve MPS? Yes, please!

    Late this past week, the Milwaukee Public Schools board voted 6 to 3 in favor of “examining” the possibility of dissolving the district. This would be a sort of bankruptcy situation, and basically that is where the district is headed […]