TEA PARTY ECONOMIST

The TEA PARTY ECONOMIST Ron Paul's original staff economist, Dr. Gary North! Thursday, April 25, 2013

Whango: Martian Land Rover Creates Symbolic Image of NASA’s Main Mission. What does this look like to you? Yes, it does, doesn’t it? This is why the image has received media attention. How is it that the two rovers, which cost about $800 million to build, have found nothing of value in 18 months, and whose only media-worth performance has been the creation of this image? [...] READ MORE Public Views All Four Congressional Leaders Unfavorably, But Pelosi Is Despised Most. A Gallup poll asked Americans what their views were of Pelosi, Reid, Boehner, and McConnell. The public responded: unfavorable. But, in this quartet of leaders, Pelosi won out: by far the most unfavorable. She continues to plummet. More Americans (79%) knew who she was than the other three, and of those who had heard of [...] READ MORE Tax Money: One Man Shot a Million Photos of President George W. Bush. The staff photographer for President Bush took a million photos. The President kept all of them. This week, the GWB Presidential library opens in Dallas. If someone wants to view a million photos of Bush, he can. I don’t know who goes to a Presidential library. There are 13 of these libraries. Bush’s cost $250 [...] READ MORE Scared Americans Close Their Wallets on Durable Goods. Orders for durable goods that are expected to last three years or longer fell 5.7% on March. This was a substantial decline. For the year, durable goods orders are unchanged from a year ago. Durable goods purchases indicate the willingness of Americans to buy goods that are not the normal day-by-day goods, which tend to [...] READ MORE Wanted: An Online High School Chemistry Course. Pay: A Permanent Passive Income Stream. If you have ever taught high school chemistry, here is an “annuity.” If you are an untenured college chemistry professor, but you can teach high school students, here is emergency income, just in case your contract is not renewed. If you are in the chemical industry, and you have thought about getting into teaching part-time, [...] READ MORE The Trusting Soul Who Tipped Off the Boston Invaders A man in Watertown, Massachusetts noticed something odd. It seemed as though his backyard boat had been disturbed. He tipped off the government. The various governments, which had locked down Boston in a vain attempt to find a missing teenager, sent troops into his back yard. They shot up his boat. To see the photos, [...] READ MORE A Swiss Bank Refuses to Hand Over an American Depositor’s Gold. The man is rich. He wanted delivery of his gold. The bank refused. It said it was not authorized to give him more than 200,000 euros worth of gold. It said it would deposit euros in his account. The gold was in a segregated account in his name. So sorry. He had been promised delivery [...] READ MORE Video: Residents Taken at Gunpoint Out of Their Home This video was shot by a neighbor. None of this did any good. An informant broke the case. He spotted changes in his backyard boat. For this act of patriotism, he was rewarded. The SWATs shot up his boat. READ MORE Second-Grade Teacher Suspended for Showing Children Garden Tools Yes, my friends, a 17-year teaching veteran did it. He showed garden tools to his class. It’s incredible. He actually showed them tools. That’s right. He got out a box of tools. There was a pair of pliers. There was a screwdriver. But the school’s authorities knew this was a cover. He showed the children [...] READ MORE FBI Failed to Track Boston Terrorist’s Flight to Russia: Misspelled Name It turns out that the FBI failed to register the fact that the Boston bomber flew to Russia in 2011. Someone misspelled his name when he got on the plane. You mean that the nation’s suspected-terrorist monitoring system is dependent on correctly spelled names? Yes. You mean that billions of dollars in sophisticated equipment can [...] READ MORE