IS IT TRUE that Mole #23 tells us there is a move afoot to privatize the Evansville Housing Authority?…it will be interesting to see who wants to  becomes a candidate for ownership of this often controversial agency?…as will be shown in later parts of today’s IS IT TRUE the ability of the private sector to perform when there is a profit motive at stake absolutely destroys the performance of government entities?
IS IT TRUE we have it on good authority that the Evansville Courier and Press laid off 12 people?…we also have strong information that 4 of those people were in the advertising department?…that should be the best revenue producing department that any paper has?
IS IT TRUE it was reported yesterday that the City of Evansville has declared the long suffering McCurdy Hotel to be a public nuisance?…such declarations typically are used by municipalities to get owners to accelerate any refurbishment efforts that they may be contemplating?…the City of Evansville even expressed the opinion that the old hotel us unsafe to occupy?…the City of Evansville unfortunately is quite complicit in the fall from grace that the McCurdy has gone through in the last 5 years since a smiling former Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel announced a deal for a Carmel based business  to turn it into 96 apartments?…it is highly probable that between the parking lot purchase and an advance on some incentives that the people of Evansville will be out $1.4 Million for the city’s meddling into what was and should have stayed a private venture?…if the McCurdy eventually is demolished due to negligence and declaration THE CITY OF EVANSVILLE AND THE WEINZAPFEL ADMINISTRATION ARE CLEARLY TO BLAME?…it has been over 2,000 days since the faux triumphant announcement was made by former Mayor Weinzapfel during the same summer he claimed to have a deal to “build a 4 Star Hotel in downtown Evansville without public funding if only we would build an arena?”…the legacy of deal making continues to crumble?
IS IT TRUE that New Jersey has just legalized Internet gambling?… each of Atlantic City’s twelve casinos can operate up to five gambling websites so long as they screen out customers from out of state?…Peggy Holloway, senior credit officer for Moody’s Investors Service, says the new sites will “appeal to a younger, more Internet-savvy demographic that might lack the discretionary budget to travel to one of Atlantic City’s 12 casinos?â€â€¦fifty thousand people signed up online for New Jersey’s gambling sites in the first week?…that compares with 741 who signed up for Obamacare during all of October in New Jersey?.. the Obamacare website has been plagued with problems, but the disparity between the two programs is still eye-popping?…it should enrage the American people that after 3 years and $640 Million the federal government could not make a retail insurance website work but in a matter of weeks and likely under $1 Million, 12 New Jersey casinos could accomplish a similarly complex task?…if you want to understand why governments appear wasteful and broke you need look no further than this contrast in performance when there is a profit motive as opposed to burocrats gone mad?
IS IT TRUE in spite of the heartfelt speech that President Obama made on income inequality in America, the greatest elevator of people from lower class to middle class life is an intact household?…having two married parents in the home reduces the probability of child poverty by 82%?…71% of poor families with children are headed by single or unmarried parents?…income inequality is not primarily an economic problem. It is a problem of societal decline and the breakdown of family structures, accelerated by government but not solely by government?… the utter failure of Obama’s trickle-down-government approach is perhaps best captured by two contrasting statistics?… when he took office, we were a full year into a major recession?…economically, there was almost nowhere to go but up and, indeed, that’s what the Dow Jones Industrial Average has done?… in January 2009, the Dow was at about 8,000. It’s now at about 16,000 essentially doubling on Obama’s watch?
IS IT TRUE according to Census Bureau figures compiled by Sentier Research, the median American household income when the Obama household took up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in January 2009 was $55,972 (in 2013 dollars)?… five years later, the median American household income is just $52,529, a decrease of $3,443 – or more than 6 percent?… that’s during what most government economists are calling a “recoveryâ€!?…if Americans’ median income were now merely the same (in real dollars) as during the recession, that would mark Obama’s tenure as a miserable economic failure, instead, Americans’ median income has noticeably dropped?…t’s important to note that these median-income figures include government payments, such as unemployment?
IS IT TRUE President Obama is describing inequality as “the defining challenge of our timeâ€?… his agenda for the second term has been about everything but that?… his second term has seen payroll taxes go up for all working Americans and a prioritization of immigration reform, gun control, climate change and a host of environmental issues which – while they might appeal to his allies on Wall Street and in Hollywood – have nothing to do with income inequality?…in many cases, these policies are actually negatives for the working class, driving up the costs of goods and negatively impacting wages and working hours?…coming from a single parent home one would have thought that if income inequality were anywhere near the top of the President’s list that he would have brought this up 4 years ago?…the biggest way to help a family or a young person is to find a way to cultivate an economy where jobs are plentiful?…if one wants to see McDonald’s paying $15 per hour the way to do that is to have full employment so that competition for burger flipping talent will drive the wage up?…there are plenty of McDonald’s that do pay well over $10 per hour and some even above $15 per hour?…this happens in places where unemployment is very low and wages in competing businesses are high?
