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Notes:

• Cash for clunkers rebates will be offered on new appliances. Three dozen states will launch programs in March and April to distribute almost $300 million in rebates to consumers buying energy-efficient appliances. The rebate is said to be only $75.00 so do they expect someone to spend $600 to get back $75.00? Thank you government for wasting my tax payer dollars.

• MSBNC’s Keith Olbermann cited “Racists in the Right Wing.” Last Thursday, O...

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Indiana Senator Evan Bayh announced this week that he will not seek a third term this year. Now before I start, I have always thought of Bayh as a stand up guy. Of course that is my opinion and some will disagree with me on that, but I felt that when Bayh voted for the Health Care bill and stimulus package, that made him unpopular with Indiana voters. Now F&C believes he would have won re-election as he did manage to raise $13 million for his re-election bid, it ...

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"Employers unexpectedly cut 20,000 jobs in January, but the unemployment rate surprisingly fell to a five-month low of 9.7 percent, according to a government report last Friday that hinted at some labor market improvement starting to take root." Besides the inherent contradiction between headlines, it always intrigues me that the so-called experts are "surprised" or something "unexpected" happened.

Whatever happened in the past - today the rulers of the roost...

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The CBO had projected the federal deficit to be at $1.35 trillion and Obama just unveiled a record $3.8 trillion budget. This past Monday, Obama sent to Washington a record $3.8 trillion budget for 2011 that would boost war spending, trim domestic spending and rely on $1.3 trillion in new borrowing. The budget would be the third in a row with a deficit of more than $1 trillion.  

F&C has grown tired of hearing Obama preach that he inherited all the problems f...