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August 1, 2013 - Info Respository

Here is a collection of important information for use by general public: FACT CHECK Nation-wide gas averages for Aug. 1, 2013  (Gas Buddy) Unemployment rates for states  (Bureau of Labor Statistics) US Federal Budget FY 2014 - Spending Deficit Pie Chart (US Federal Budget) US government spending: Total, Federal, State, Local for 2013 (US Federal Budget) Federal Budget Spending, Deficits, the National Debt, and Social Security (Federal Budget) A rising share of young adults live in their parents' home (Pew Social Trends) Daily Presidential Tracking Poll (Rasmussen) President Obama Jobs Approval Rating  (Real Clear Politics) What has your congress-member done for you? Check here. (Real Clear Politics) Chart of Economic Mobility in the US (Real Clear Politics) Fact Sheet American Jobs Act (White House) IN THE NEWS US stocks rally, S&P 500 tops 1,700 (Wall Street Journal) Why the Economy could...pop!  (Time magazine) Are we Rome yet? ...

July 31, 2013 - Introduction

For a great long while I have pondered the idea of posting a political blog. But not your ordinary political commentary. I have dreamed up a something that could serve as a repository, to pull information in from the Left and the Right with less of a stance in either direction and one that takes an entirely middle-of-the-road stance. But that proved to be a difficult proposition to carry out solo. I am what would be considered a left-libertarian, but I will do my very best to provide a fairly biased point-of-view on these matters and write opinion articles with a dash of satire. Commentators can debate the facts and fact check as much as they like and it will be placed on a post-script section of the following blog. I have a unique point-of-view, being a liberal atheist socialist from Southern California and being from a diverse background. My mother is second-generation Mexican-American and my father's family is descended from Welsh-Scottish family that arrived in the US in ...