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Friday, May 16th, 2008
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U.S. NEWS: So just how bad is the energy situation getting? Renowned oil man T. Boone Pickens is investing $2 Billion in a Texas wind farm. In fact, the largest wind farm ever built.
Pickens will purchase the wind generators from General Electric, which makes GE happy campers. GE has been in the selling business [...]
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
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U.S. NEWS: It’s my opinion that something went wrong with the information age; particularly in the area of customer service. I thought this was supposed to be the day of instant everything. You know, “Got a problem? We’ll fix it fast from across the country and around the world, 7-24-365, were ready to serve you.”
I [...]
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
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Good Morning Middle American, your King of Simple News is on the air.
Each morning I sit down at my keyboard and consider a new way to convince the world that our growth model is not sustainable. The normal concern for the average American is, “How long will it last at this rate?” The answer [...]
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
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Good Morning Middle America, your King of Simple News is on the air.
Oil has gone from $32 per barrel just a few years ago to today’s staggering $126.
The Democrats are blaming George Bush and Dick Cheny for the hike, saying they influence “big oil.” Yet, U.S. oil companies produce only 25% of our current [...]
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
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Good morning Middle America, you’re King of Simple News is on the air.
U.S. NEWS: As oil passed the $125 mark like a freight train passing a bum, what are the remarks being heard at the pumps and on the news, but “This is ridiculous.”
What is really ridiculous is that America didn’t plan for [...]
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
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Good Morning Middle America, your King of Simple News in on the air.
Every so often I have to ground myself with the reason that I began to write both my book and this blog. I revived an old piece that I wrote a while back to briefly explain the root cause of the mess that [...]
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
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It remains a mystery to me that our government can point out the excess profits that they believe the oil companies are making and yet produce an annual budget request of $3.1 Trillion for fiscal year 2008.
Americans are totally incensed by the oil company’s profits, yet seem oblivious to government spending. If Senators McCain [...]
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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Inflation is a purposeful and terrible tax on the American people. I watched a news program a few nights ago that was interviewing older people who can no longer pay their basic living costs. One older couple was actually sleeping in their van as they found themselves unable to pay rising rents along with their [...]
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
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Wall Street is celebrating as the April jobs report, which was expected show that some 75,000 jobs had been cut, reported that only 20,000 were lost. I bet those 20,000 and the quarter million cut in the three previous months can hardly contain their joy.
However, The King of Simple isn’t all that overjoyed, because [...]
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Posted by Mike Folkerth on
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
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Good Morning Middle America, here it is Friday and the end of another week in paradise.
I filled in last week to host my friend Frosty Wooldridge’s national radio program “Connecting the Dots,” and had as my guest Dr. Jerome Corsi, the best selling author of “The Late Great U.S.A.; The Coming Merger with [...]
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