Archive for the 'Government' Category

The New York Times has an article on how some local governments are giving away land in hopes of cutting costs and creating tax revenue. One town even has the giveaway plan (for homesteads) posted on their website: Homestead Act 2010. (Hint to Beatrice Nebraska webmaster, to get more takers, don’t put an offer with [...]

Helium How the health care bill will affect work-at-home moms? In a flight of fancy the author writes: Work at home moms will benefit more from the Health Care Reform bill than anyone else in America – though it may take a few years. By 2014, “health exchanges” will be set up which allow anyone [...]

22 Statistics That Prove The Middle Class Is Being Systematically Wiped Out Of Existence In America is an excellent if startling slide show. It shows the evidence of a middle class being wiped out but doesn’t delve into “How”. The bottom line is that the “Middle Class” increasingly have no margin (and/or no will) to [...]

Here’s the question I got today: “How do I become a private investigator? I heard I had to be a lawyer?” Answer: If you had to be a lawyer, there wouldn’t be many. And lawyers make better money than private investigators on average, so why would they waste their time? To find out what you [...]

SmartMoney.com tells how expiring tax cuts will affect you… Some talking heads and politicians want you to think only “rich” people will be hurt when our current tax rates expire and jump automatically… At the lowest tax bracket, the tax rate will jump 50%!. The current 15% rate will jump almost 100%!. Those rates for [...]

Google has a website where they tell in general terms and government requests for information they receive Google Government Requests Douglas Carswell, a Member of Parliament in the UK, noted this in his blog after noting that, obviously, some requests are legitimate and necessary in the course of government activities: The danger, however, is that [...]

FTC Settlement Orders Ban More Than A Dozen Marketers from Selling Mortgage Relief Services; Repeat Offender Ordered to Pay $11.4 Million for Contempt A U.S. district court has ordered newly named defendants to stop making deceptive claims that they are affiliated with free federal government programs, such as Making Home Affordable. On May 14, 2009, [...]

Politicians this summer are going to be talking about “Rebuilding America”. (I guess they always do but it never seems to quite get done. For a different take on the subject you might want to read Rebuilding An American Economy Focused On Communities and Families I think the desire to work at home reflects this [...]

The Federal Government is a pioneer in the work at home movement in some ways. But check out this bad report from the VA: Unfortunately telework employees are not free there from workplace harassment. According to this allegation, work at home employees are required to be MORE PRODUCTIVE than office based employees! “Last year, at [...]

Connecticut hopes to reduce costs and perhaps some insanity by expanding telecommuting. When you read an illustration like this, it really makes sense: Donna Seresin was driving in circles every day. Her job at the Department of Environmental Protection required that she travel each day from her home in New Haven to clock in at [...]