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,...

In the latest Fox News poll approval has dropped to 39% opposition to ObamaCare now stands at 54% .  Fox News tends to be rather soft on the polling numbers in general showing Obama at 48/45 while Rasmussen has Obama at 46/53.  The break downs are interesting as Democrats continue with their head in sand approach while Independents have sharply broken away from most of Obama's policies. Position on ObamaCare Democrats:      73/17      Republicans:    10/86 Independents:  31/63 This of course should be no surprise as the direction of the debate in the Senate has taken an unexpected and strange turn.  In lieu of a public option Harry Reid has unveiled a proposal to expand Medicare by dropping the age limit from 65 to 55.  Why strange turn?  Because other than the AARP many Americans are very well aware that Medicare is a program fraught with corruption, waste and more importantly fisc...

I had the pleasure of interviewing Joe Kennedy ( website )  who is running as an independent for MA special election (January 19th, 2010) to fill the vacant seat of the late Ted Kennedy.  Joe Kennedy is a small government kind of guy and is not at all related to the famous Massachusetts family and in fact is offering voters something new and fresh as opposed to the two incumbent parties.   If you are tired of the federal government growing regardless of which party is in charge, understand that our entitlement programs are broken and believe that the media treats third party candidates unfairly - read on. RC: Congratulations on your successful ballot drive, what are your thoughts on your challengers this coming January; Democrat Attorney General Martha Coakley and Republican State Senator Scott Brown? JK: My challengers are both Party Candidates. For me the parties are very much 2 sides of the same coin. Both parties are for more wars, bigger government, more taxes ...

Obama today unveiled a plan to offer tax incentives for those individuals who are willing to retrofit and upgrade their homes in the name of energy efficiency.  No, this is not a sick joke, this is the brilliant economic plan of the Obama administration.  Don't believe me?  We know energy efficiency "creates jobs, saves money for families, and reduces the pollution that threatens our environment," Obama said. "With additional resources, in areas like advanced manufacturing of wind turbines and solar panels, for instance, we can help turn good ideas into good private-sector jobs." The administration didn't provide immediate details, but said it would work with Congress on crafting legislation. Steve Nadel, director at the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, who's helping write the bill, said a homeowner could receive up to $12,000 in rebates. So despite the Climategate, despite the failure of the 787 stimulus package we are going to ...

The race for the MA 2010 Senate is now heating up with prospective candidates blasting the airways and spamming the television channels.   I have already examined the Democrat candidates in an analysis of the first televised debate .  In summary, the four liberal democrats are all competing between themselves in who can expand government faster.  Virtually every one is a disgrace, could care less about our Constitution and has virtually no understanding about economics.  So now we turn to three other candidates. Republican Scott Brown Republican Jack E. Robinson Independent Joe Kennedy (no relation). Jack E. Robinson:   Appears to be an eccentric fellow, but unfortunately has been missing in action when it comes to any debate.  Ironically he claims that Scott Brown is the one dodging the debate, but in an opportunity to debate the issue on a local radio station 96.9 only Scott Brown showed up. Therefore Robinson's approach to this race leave...