20 July 2011 - Granite Grok

July 20, 2011

Data Point – Let’s add in House Size

A follow on to the comparison of All US household material wealth to Poor US household material wealth is the comparison of the sizes of various countries’ houses. From ApartmentTherapy:   US: 2,300 sf Australia: 2,217 sf Denmark: 1,475 sf France: 1,216 sf Spain: 1,044 sf Ireland: 947 sf UK: 818 sf

Barrington / Lee / Madbury TEA Party – Presidential Candidate Picnic

TEA Party Presidential candidate Picnic WHEN:     Saturday, August 6, 2011 TIME:       11:30am WHERE:   Dante’s Pasta & Vino / Soccer Field                320 Route 125, Barrington, NH Live music, burgers, hot dogs, chicken, software drinks, and speakers! ================================================== Personal Note: The organizer has told me that Dante’s …

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Data Point – Job picture BEFORE Obamacare enacted / Job picture AFTER Obamacare enacted

Do you see that plateau…..?  Certainly, there are a whole host of other things going on that can affect that but my, it does at least look fairly locked in timewise.  Heritage adds: Businesses with fewer than 50 workers have a strong incentive to maintain this size, which allows them to avoid the mandate to …

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Obama to Blame if Social Security Checks Withheld

Our government funds thousands of programs that should be eliminated or severely cut because they provide little or no value to American citizens. Here are a few examples: $2.6 million to train Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly, promotion of rural tourism in Lebanon, $12 million to promote economic growth in Lebanon….

If You Are Not Following Me On Twitter….

Twitter inspires the opportunity to aggravate the leftists who insist on following conservatives there. Not every witticism will fit on Twitter. Sometimes you have to write a blog and post a link. And then there are the thoughts that are too short to blog and too long to tweet. (Some things can’t be said in under 140 characters.)