MONEY MATTERS • Column Fracking Bust? Or Fracking Boom? By TOM MORGAN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Who you gonna believe? When people argue over contentious issues today they often follow a predictable pattern. He cites a scientific study that says blah blah about climate change. She cites a scientific study that claims the opposite. Oh yeah? He says her study was published in a junk journal. Oh yeah? She lists the scientist’s credentials. And claims his scientist has the wrong…
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Column MONEY TALKS America, Conceived In Slavery? Bunk! By TOM MORGAN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com And you thought America was “conceived in liberty”? That is what Abraham Lincoln suggested. Well I’m here to tellya that is bunk. This country was conceived in wholesale medical cruelty. And medical malfeasance. So there! Doctors of the 1700s treated illnesses by blood-letting. Got a pain? Slash a vein. Dysentery? Try an artery. Migraines? Let us drill holes in your skull. To allow evil spirits…
COLUMN Some Indicators Suggest Recession Not Looming By TOM MORGAN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Are we staring at a recession? You have surely seen or heard reports, opinion and speculation to that effect. Gloom has been a mini-rage lately. A few questions are in order. Are economists able to accurately predict recessions? No. If their accuracy percentages were batting averages you would bench them. Why is the subject of recessions in the air so much lately? The Left salivates at…
COLUMN Why Must Presidential Bids Go On Forever-And-A-Day? By TOM MORGAN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com If there’s one thing we’re good at in this country it is expanding things. From our waistlines and hamburgers to the NBA season, we know how to make things bigger and longer. Please note I do not imply necessarily better. The Baseball Hall of Fame serves up a good example. In 1980 I went to its big induction ceremony in Cooperstown. When…
COLUMN • Money Matters Punishing Present For The Past By TOM MORGAN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Join me in a grand political correctness crusade! Together we can punish the present for the past. This crusade has already racked up several victories. Many more lie ahead. Our most recent victory: We beheaded Kate Smith. The New York Yankees and Philadelphia Flyers destroyed her recordings of “God Bless America” they used to play. The Flyers hauled her statue from its stadium. They…
COLUMN • MONEY MATTERS Let’s Build Great Future On Great Past By TOM MORGAN • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal Was America ever great? Former Attorney General Eric Holder poses the question. “Exactly when did you think America was great?” He competes with Governor Cuomo. Cuomo told us “We’re not going to make America great again. It was never that great.” Let us look at that question. But first, let us admit these politicians are simply trying to dilute…
MONEY TALK What’s The Matter With NY? It’s Just Spending Too Much By TOM MORGAN • Syndicated Columnist What is the truth about New York State? Why do we lose so many good people? Why do our businesses struggle, especially Upstate? Why do our schools, cities and towns struggle? Why are parts of our infrastructure dilapidated? Our politicians offer us a blizzard of reasons. Every government department explains. Here is a truth that cuts through it all: New York State spends…
MONEY MATTERS Reparations? How Much Can We Afford? Reparations are all the rage again. A lot of people reckon we taxpayers should shell out reparations. To descendants of American slaves. And to Native Americans. (Some of our candidates for the White House call for these reparations.) This presents a few problems. Problem: The average African-American has from 20 to 30 percent white blood. Native Americans on average have lots of white blood. So, should we pay less blood money to…
Column by Tom Morgan for November 9, 2018 Downstate Controls, Doesn’t Care About Upstate Yawn. Upstate’s recovery from the Great Recession is the weakeast of any U.S. region. According to a recent study. You can examine all the nooks of Upstate’s economy. Most every one is daubed with lackluster. Papered with anemic. Writ large with blah. Yawn. Upstaters grew accustomed to this long ago. Our motto should be “We’re Number One at being Number Fifty!” Most of us know what…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 Exhibit By Watercolor Society, Art Assocaitions Luck Of The Draw RECEPTION – 5 – 7 p.m. Opening exhibit by Central New York Watercolor Society and Luck of the Draw exhibit, buy tickets, enter to win artwork, final drawing 10/21. Cooperstown Art Association. 607-547-9777 or visit www.cooperstownart.com RELEASE PARTY – 7 p.m. Celebrate first ever issue of The Green Zine, a collection of art & writing from local artists published by The Green Toad Book Store. Grab…