Arkady's Thoughts

Kamal Jain is an Independent candidate running for MA State Auditor in 2010.  If you have no idea what an auditor does and what crucial role this individual plays in your government, then allow Mr. Jain to inform you.   If you have no knowledge of Massachusetts state budget and how your hard earned money is being spent or if you have downloaded and perused the budget reports to be left puzzled and confused - discover how Kamal Jain plans to fix this issue once and for all.  1) RC: Kamal Jain, thank you for giving us the opportunity to find out more about your campaign. What is your political background? KJ: Thank you giving me the opportunity to talk about my campaign. Growing up, I always felt disenfranchised from the political system. I could see that everything was run by the Democrats or Republicans, and neither of those groups represented my values, so for many years I stayed away from politics and just complained about ever-growing...

In a swift maneuver Barney Frank bypassed his own committee and within two days of introduction squeaked the biggest and most expansive financial regulatory bill since the Great Depression!  This 1,300 page mammoth contains everything from new regulatory commissions to 3 billion dollars in free mortgages.  The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009 authored by Barney Frank is an excellent example of our government in action.  First, due to intrusive social engineering our government has perpetrated and engineered a gigantic housing bubble fueled by cheap credit streaming out of the Federal Reserve.  Virtually none of the people tasked with regulation including ex-chairman Alan Greenspan, current chairman Ben Burbank, current congressman Barney Frank of the House finance committee understood, envisioned or stopped the coming collapse.  In fact we have video of Barney Frank as far as back 2003 maintaining that Freddie and Fannie are perfe...

USA Today's fine reporting has unearthed a troubling trend , it would appear that there is indeed a recession proof industry and this industry is the government where six figure salaries have exploded.  While the trend of America's free market system moves rapidly towards corporate fascism and domestic socialism, the seat of government is transforming into a Soviet style conglomerate where the best and most lucrative jobs can be found. During this recession the average salary of a federal employee has gone up 6.6% to $71,208 while the private sector went up only 3.9% to $40,331 .  Don't feel too impinged though, because state and local government employees' salaries also went up 3.9% although even they have higher average salaries at $54,101.  It gets worse though. The highest-paid federal employees are doing best of all on salary increases. Defense Department civilian employees earning $150,000 or more increased from 1,868 in December 2007 to 10,100 in June 2009,...