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Welcome To Las Vegas’ GEORGE HARRIS PAGE 4 Newest Paper! PAT CHOATE PAGE 5 FRED WEINBERG PAGE 6 Inside: Penny Wisdom DOUG FRENCH PAGE 7 DIANE GRASSI PAGE 8 Hurting Productivity I don’t know the key to suc- AL THOMAS PAGE 10 cess, but the key to failure is JOE TARTARO PAGE 11 Won't Help Unions trying to please everybody. —Bill Cosby JOYCE MEYER PAGE 12 See Editorial Page 6 PET OF THE WEEK PAGE 15 THE PENNY PRESS, MARCH 3, 2005 PAGE 4 Commentary: George Harris 3) Economic development will suffer, as businesses relocate to other Jobs! We Don’t Need states that do not saddle employers with this cost imposed by government mandate. 4) Although the bill allows a $1/hour reduction in wage for companies No Stinking Jobs! that provide health benefits, there’s a provision in the bill that requires the business to offer full insurance to all dependents in order to qualify. Most The following Nevada Assembly Republicans are to be commended for likely, many businesses will opt for no insurance and pay the $1/hour their bravery for voting against Assembly Bill 87. They understand econom- increase, which will lead to decreasing the number of Nevadans who have ics and had the common sense to put the welfare of the state above political health coverage. pressure. 5) Businesses that have little discretion in their workforce size will be forced to raise prices, passing the expense on to Nevada consumers. Heros: Lynn Hettrick, Garn Mabey, Chad Christensen, Heidi S. Gansert, Businesses that cannot pass on the increase will have lower profits, accu- Tom Grady, Rod Sherer, Francis Allen, Sharron Angle. mulate less capital and will not be able to grow. 6) The bill mandates minimum wage payments for the only category of If your Republican Assemblyperson isn’t on this list, write them and let worker heretofore not covered by the law - the owner/operator of a small them know that you will be watching how they vote for the balance of the business. Yes, entrepreneurs, you may no longer opt to not pay yourself dur- session and remind them that they should have stood up against AB 87; the ing the startup phase of your new enterprise, or not at any other time along worst piece of legislation since last session’s unnecessary tax hike! The bill your business’s path either. And if you do accidentally pay yourself less they passed, Assembly Bill 87, whose primary sponsors were Democrats than minimum wage, you can actually go to jail. This bill elevates violations Chris Guinchigliani and anointed Governor to be Richard Perkins, is online from a civil offense to a criminal offense. here: In my more cynical moments, I could perhaps see the wisdom of pass- http://www.leg.state.nv.us/73rd/bills/AB/AB87_R1.pdf ing this dog in hopes it would eliminate the minimum wage ballot question Why is this the worst bill of the session so far? from the 2006 ballot. This hope is quickly crushed to dust by reality - not 1) It mandates than Nevada set a minimum wage greater than the federal only is it true that nothing can remove the ballot question from next election minimum wage. This increment in Nevada will always be equal to $1/hour, season, but if this bill and the ballot question both pass, Nevada’s minimum increased every year by the smaller of the Consumer Price Index or 3%. wage will be permanently set at $2 more than the federal minimum wage, Which means at the end of this year when Congress increases the federal effectively ending entry-level jobs in Nevada forever. So I would like to minimum wage $1/hour, Nevada’s minimum wage will instantly rise to take this opportunity to thank those Democrats who have never had to meet $7.15/hour and will adjust upward from there for inflation. a payroll for using their majority in the Assembly to place another burden 2) Crime will increase, as youth idled by the reduction in entry-level onto the backs of small business people in Nevada. jobs find alternate criminal enterprises to engage in. GEORGE HARRIS THE PENNY PRESS, MARCH 3, 2005 PAGE 5 Commentary: Pat Choate a handful of controversial judges. the risk would as low as investment tion. Now, Senator Bill Frist, the Squandering The The Social Security fight is in Treasuries. Equally important, Senate Majority Leader, is threaten- particularly dangerous to this we would have the use of the facili- ing to change Senate rules outlawing Election Administration. The financial prob- ties. filibusters if the Democrats use that lem that exists is slight and even Other options exist. Rather technique to block the President’s Congress usually grants a newly- the most diehard supporter of the than searching for such choices, the nominees. It is called the “nuclear” elected President a special deference President acknowledges that the sys- President and his supporters are bull- option. If the President and Senator in the first 5 or 6 months of their tem is financially sound until the headedly pushing forward with their Frist trigger the nuclear option, terms. Then, it is politics as usual. year 2042 – that is 37 years from plan, which in the long-term will kill they need to understand that it will When a President wins a second now. the Social Security System. Voters destroy the filibuster, but they will term, as did Bill Clinton and now Moreover, a number of simple, see that and are turning up at town also destroy any chance they might George W. Bush, Congress is a little rather painless fixes are available hall meetings across the country to have to get anything of substance less political than usual for a while. now. One would be to change the express their outrage. As I have writ- enacted so long as this President is Sadly, the record over the past law as to where the existing funds ten in this column before, unless the in office. half-century is that second term could be invested. Today, the Social President convinces the American I suspect the Administration administrations are failures. In each Security excess can only be put people his idea is a good one, he wants the nuclear option because instance, the President reached too into U.S. Treasury bonds, the low- will destroy his Administration if he they realize that the position of Chief far. est yield securities available. If continues to push his plan. Social Justice will open soon. According George W. Bush is now putting Congress allowed part of the monies Security is the third-rail of American to many rumors, the President wish- his 2nd term at such a risk with to be invested in AAA grade state politics for a reason. es to elevate either Justice Anthony his push to radically alter Social and local grade infrastructure bonds, As to the judges, the Democrats Scalia or Clarence Thomas to that Security and get the Senate to ratify a higher return could be gotten and in the U.S. Senate have ratified the position. The only way either the overwhelming majority of all the President can get either approved is appointees the President has sent to change the Senate rules and forbid forward. Yet, a handful of nominees the use of a filibuster. The question, are very offensive to the Democrats. of course, is whether getting either The Democrats blocked those nomi- men into that position is worth the nations during the President’s first political cost it entails. Since both term. The prudent course would be are already on the Court, the answer to find replacements for those few is a resounding no. and get them approved and on the A lame-duck President needs bench. to understand that playing chicken Instead, President Bush has defi- with the opposition party is danger- antly sent the names of those few ous business. Ask Bill Clinton. back to the Senate for confirma- PAT CHOATE

The Penny Press Tips Its Cap To: Want A Penny Press In The Mail? $55 per year First Class Mail Name______Penny Press Most of the state's media, led by the Las Vegas Review Journal, which made Address______418 ½ S. Maryland a concerted effort to go out and find those alleged minimum wage workers on whose behalf we're going through all of these motions to raise the state's City_____State___ZIP_____ Las Vegas, NV 89101 minimum wage to well past the Federal minimum wage. The bottom line is that they couldn't find them. All this effort to raise the minimum wage will do is to stop local businesses from added summer interns and other entry level jobs.

The Navajo Nation for backing down in the case of 13-year-old Shiloh Edsitty and allowing him to be placed with his choice of guardian after he saw his mother stabbed to death last year. The Penny Press Sends A Bronx Cheer And A Bouquet of Weeds To:

The members of the 2005 Nevada Legislature who seriously think that the voting public won't clothesline each and every one of them if they don't do something real and meaningful about reforming the property tax system. Stop whining, throwing out trail balloons about what may not be legal and get your well padded butts to work or we'll show you ugly in the next two elections. THE PENNY PRESS, MARCH 3, 2005 PAGE 6 OPINION From The Publisher... Attacking Productivity Can't Help Unions AFL-CIO chief John Sweeney told his faithful followers Peoria, Illinois, the home of Caterpillar Tractor Company. Tuesday in Las Vegas that “everything the union has fought for is all under attack,” citing, among other things the Caterpillar's management, after years of caving to the UAW President’s suggestion to bundle individual Social Security on work rules and wages in exchange for labor peace, woke accounts into the program. up one day to find that their products were very well made but priced so high that they could no longer compete in the He also cited some 1,200 companies which have eliminated world tractor market. their pension plans in 2003. The story of Caterpillar’s return to profitability includes a He is right about one thing. very ugly chapter of union busting because the UAW was not about to give back what it already had and didn’t really There are some unions under attack. And they should be. care if CAT went out of business in the process.

Those are the unions which, for no real reason other than This blind assumption that companies are forever is what muscle flexing, stand in the way of productivity. has unions under the attacks which Sweeney is really talk - ing about. Sweeney, like many union leaders, assumes that unionized labor is good and that non-unionized labor is bad. It’s easy for Sweeney to bash the President’s social security suggestions. There is a middle ground which should be acceptable to both sides.. After all, he’s a Democrat and has no real incentive to sup - port anything the President says or does or even come to Here is an example: the table with an alternate suggestion.

All of the broadcast television networks are unionized. Fixing things which are wrong in his own house, such as productivity shattering work rules, is something Sweeney Television is one of those businesses where people who do would rather not address in public. the technical work actually get better with age. It is also one of those businesses where in many places there is a Union membership is down because in many cases, old line youth movement which mirrors employment practices in union organizers are having a hard time making the case for many companies today. union membership in the face of today’s economic realities. Most companies are only three stupid decisions away from For most network technical crews, because of the union, bankruptcy and if you don’t believe that, look at United those skilled technicians still have their jobs until retire - Airlines. ment, allowing really good workers a break as they age in an industry which caters to youthful demographics. We’d be really impressed if Sweeney, instead of the same tired old rhetoric, would say to corporate America, “let’s do For that, you (or at least the workers who still have their jobs)an industry by industry examination of work rules and see can thank NABET which is now part of the Communications what we can do to help restore those industries to economic Workers of America. (We never thought of that as much health so they do not have to look off shore for cheap labor of a problem before we were 50, but we can sure see the to survive.” problem now.) Based on his track record, we won’t endanger our own We, on the other hand, grew up in the city which at one health by holding our breath. time held the largest local of the United Auto Workers, FRED WEINBERG THE PENNY PRESS, MARCH 3, 2005 PAGE 7 Commentary: Doug French dently has convinced himself of his own In The Coming Collapse Of The Turk and Rubino discuss the usual Boom or Bust? clairvoyance and that if his readers will Dollar And How To Profit From It: gold investment choices: bullion coins, follow his advice they “will be able to make a fortune by investing in gold and bars, mining stocks, mutual funds, rare create a more predictable and a better other hard assets, Turk and Rubino write coins, and exchange traded funds. When To paraphrase Mark Twain, it’s a future…” that debt and deficits matter, that the buying physical gold, the authors urge difference of opinion that makes a horse Dent sees the technology bubble central bank cannot be trusted to man- investors to “focus on the established race. And for most people the most continuing to the end of the decade after age the currency, that foreign exchange dealers whose longevity implies that critical race of all is to amass sufficient its brief correction from 2000 to 2002. markets effect the U.S. economy and they’ve managed to satisfy the bulk of assets to live a comfortable retirement. Tech bubbles are different from asset that gold has a constructive role in the their customers,” and list six precious- At the Mises Institute conference on bubbles (Japan land and Tulipmania) modern economy. The authors contend metals dealers to call, but inexplicably Austrian Economics and the Financial and structural instability bubbles (OPEC that much of our prosperity is an illusion fail to mention Camino Coin, a company Markets held in Las Vegas last weekend and Middle East) because new infra- and that the dollar, like all fiat currencies that has been satisfying customers for most speakers admitted that the invest- structures are created such as the Internet before it, will fail. 46 years. ment world is filled mostly with risk and and personal computers that “would not By any measure the growth curve The books longest chapter concerns offers few bargains. be created by normal economic incen- of government has been “shockingly gold-mining stocks and is an adequate But, the authors of two recently tives.” steep.” Only $20 per citizen was spent primer on investing in this treacher- published investment books believe that It is the innovation from the tech on the federal government in 1800, by ous investment niche. However, do not their crystal balls are crystal clear and bubble combined with the size of the 2003 that had grown to $7,800. The expect any specific recommendations. that they hold the road map to riches for baby boom generation and the fact that growth in state and local government The bullish case made in the book the coming decade. investing in stocks has become a main- has grown by twice the rate of GDP for silver is more compelling than even Harry S. Dent, Jr. says that a person stream trend that is creating this great since WWII and there are now 6.5 state that for gold. Annual demand for silver should be piling into stocks because bubble boom. and local government employees per is 200 million ounces greater than mine by the year 2009 the DJIA will reach Dent of course makes no mention of 100 citizens compared to 2.3 per 100 in production. Government stockpiles are 40,000 and the Nasdaq will explode to at Austrian Business Cycle Theory or the 1946. shrinking, and most silver is consumed least 13,500 and possibly 20,000. gargantuan amount of liquidity created Turk and Rubino write that 21.5 rather than horded like gold. The predictions Dent makes in his by the Federal Reserve in his bubble the- million people now work for govern- On a historical basis, silver is cheap book The Next Great Bubble Boom: sis. It’s all about demographics and tech- ments at all levels compared to 4.5 mil- versus most every measure, there are How to Profit from the Greatest Boom in nology. “Bubbles are almost impossible lion back in 1940. very few pure silver mines (most silver History: 2005–2009, are based on what to prevent,” Dent writes. “The bubbles It takes lots of money to pay for all is produced as a byproduct of the mining he terms a new science: Demographics. finally end when everyone is in and of this bureaucracy and the Treasury is for other metals) and it takes years to In Dent’s view, consumer-spending pat- there is no one else to keep buying.” floating trillions in debt. If unfunded bring new mines into production. terns can be projected down to neighbor- By the way, the end will occur liabilities are included, the federal gov- In an interesting chart the authors hood blocks. And with this data, “there sometime in 2009 or 2010: go ahead and ernment owes $43 trillion. Households compare the value of available silver is a new information-based science built set your clock. and businesses have also joined the bor- stockpiles plus annual mine production on predictable cause-and-effect impacts Dent uses a potpourri of cycles, rowing party. The authors estimate that to that of the combined assets of Fannie of how we change as we age that is just waves, patterns, channels and whatnot to total debt per family of four is $500,000, Mae and Freddie Mac (among other as predictable on average as life insur- back into his predictions, but suffice it to and increasing at an accelerating pace. measures). The silver market (with the ance actuarial tables for when we die.” say, stocks are headed to the moon at the The combined effects of the trade, book assuming $6/oz.) was less than half Conversely, in Human Action, end of the decade and then it’s look out current account and budget deficits will a percent of the combined GSEs at the Ludwig von Mises wrote: “For prax- below: a great deflationary crash, likely eventually destroy the dollar, a currency end of 2003. eology data are the bodily and psycho- to occur “especially between April and that “has lost an astounding 90 percent For aggressive investors, Turk and logical features of the acting men, their September 2010.” That will mark the of its value versus gold, and 70 percent Rubino provide a list of short-sale can- desires and value judgments, and the end of the “last great bull market for versus the cost of living.” didates comprised of big banks, home- theories, doctrines, and ideologies they decades to come,” Dent predicts. As you would expect, Turk and builders, credit card issuers and mort- develop in order to adjust themselves Anyone worrying about infla- Rubino’s inflation definition is sounder gage companies. They also list a few purposively to the conditions of their tion should stop it, according to Dent. than Mr. Dent’s. “Inflation…means to actively managed bear funds. environment and thus to attain the ends Inflation will be low and then there increase the amount of something, in In conclusion, Turk and Rubino they are aiming at. These data, although will be a “major wave of deflation.” this case the amount of currency in cir- consider three likely scenarios of what permanent in their structure and strictly By the way, Dent doesn’t see inflation culation,” they write. “Inflated currency will happen when the dollar implodes. determined by the laws controlling the as a monetary phenomenon. “We see loses value because of oversupply.” The first, similar to the 1930’s, has gold order of the universe, are perpetually [inflation] as the very fundamental cost Turk and Rubino contend that the being confiscated and the emergence fluctuating and varying; they change of raising and educating young people monetary demand for gold is about to of a “bigger, more authoritarian gov- from instant to instant.” and then incorporating them into the soar because of the Federal Reserves ernment.” The second has virtually all But Dent believes that human behav- workforce,” Dent writes. “Every major inflationary policies and the fact that markets collapsing and a new genera- ior and the economy can be predict- period of rising inflation in history has there is so little gold in existence – tion of politicians demanding a return to ed based upon demographic computer seen higher expenses either to fight a 135,000 tonnes. By way of comparison, gold. In the third scenario, as currency modeling. He implores the reader to stop war or to incorporate young people into the authors point out that 240,000 tonnes markets around the world collapse, the defending the economic principles of the the economy…” So, in Dent’s view, if of steel are produced in the United market chooses gold and “The Age of past. “Demographics as a new science is there is low productivity and decreases States each day. Paper ends with a whimper rather than the greatest breakthrough we have seen in the production of consumer goods Central banks around the world hold a bang…” in economics,” writes Dent. “It is inher- – that’s inflation. Do they actually teach much of the world’s gold supply. But, So now it’s time to place your bets: ently very simple and understandable in that at the Harvard MBA program that Turk estimates that these central bank- Harry Dent’s Bubble Boom or Turk and principle as we all do these predictable Dent graduated from? ers have loaned out 12,000 tonnes of Rubino’s Coming Collapse. I don’t know things to some degree or another as we Gold newsletter writer, James Turk their gold or five years worth of mine about you, but I think buying some gold age.” and his co-writer John Rubino see things production. As the price of the yellow and silver from Burt at Camino Coin In The Next Great Bubble Boom’s much differently. These writers believe metal moves up, the central banks will will help me sleep better at night. prologue, Dent calls the book “the most that you must invest in gold and other be “short squeezed” and forced to bid comprehensive guide to financial and hard assets to earn your fortune by the up the price of the metal to cover their DOUG FRENCH life planning ever presented.” He evi- end of the decade. short positions. THE PENNY PRESS, MARCH 3, 2005 PAGE 8 Commentary: Diane Grassi legal, we now have found ourselves ation of the problem leads to addi- with mismatched names and num- Stolen Nation in dire straights as personal identities tional taxes collected by the IRS bers. Since the SSA has no idea who are being stolen with no mechanism and the SSA, while bank lenders deserves credit for the taxes paid by Harbors Den Of or political will to put a stop to it. As sell more loans and employers get those wage earners, no one gets it. a result of their blind ignorance our inexpensive labor. In one case an And that amount is in the hundreds Thieves elected officials could never have illegal alien was able to obtain a of billions of dollars referred to as imagined that the Social Security dozen credit cards, buy a car and the Earnings Suspense File. About If you think that all of the brou- administration would be shaken take out an FHA loan using a stolen 50% of the fund comes from indus- haha about illegal immigration down by a different kind of terror- S.S. number and his own name. All tries such as agriculture, restaurants, only concerns the powers-that-be ist, leaving individuals no protection agencies had a record of the abused construction and service industries. in Washington, D.C., think again. and fending for themselves. But it S.S. number but refrained from noti- You connect the dots. Non-enforced immigration law is continues to happen every day with fying the victim. James Huse, Jr., the former portrayed beyond the beltway as ramifications which can haunt vic- The biggest travesty is that most inspector general of the SSA stated, no more than political shenanigans tims until they die. consumers discover their breach of “It is unlikely the agency will ever to curry favor with specific vot- We are no longer describing security by accident. Victims may inform potential victims……the pol- ing blocks and an effort to deflate something as “simple” as fraud as not be told there is a problem unless itics of immigration get involved in wages. But inaction by a head-in- the result of a stolen bank account the imposter misses a loan pay- this. This is the schizophrenia of the the-sand style government has cre- or a line of credit due to theft of ment for example, as a victim’s federal government. The Homeland ated a new type of terrorism for the a Social Security number. That is credit report will not show a Social Security people are screaming about American people. nightmarish enough. But the Social Security number used by someone the accuracy of records and you Since September 11, 2001 we Security card shark rings fester- else’s name. And credit applied for have the IRS taking money from have had to deal with not only the ing in the illegal alien communi- by a S.S. number thief will also not wherever it comes.” tragedy of terrorist attacks on our ty have given new meaning to the appear on the credit report. However, So is there need for immigra- own soil but the aftermath of our term “identity theft” which neither if the rightful person applies for tion reform or more laws, rules and government creating additional the Social Security Administration, credit not knowing there are several agencies? I think not. Illegal aliens bureaucracies all in the name of the Internal Revenue Service or the additional credit cards attached to buying counterfeit cards, suppliers security. All the while the black mar- Federal Trade Commission have his S.S. number, he may well likely who steal them or others manufac- ket remains strong with respect to any intention of investigating in be denied credit due to the extent of turing them use a base of real people counterfeit as well as stolen Social an effort to correct such a criti- the credit line, albeit a perfect credit accounting for 90% of them. In fact Security numbers and green cards cal problem. After all, the newly rating. a newborn baby with a S.S. number being sold to illegal aliens upon created Transportation Security But it does not stop there. Victims could already have bought a house entry to the United States. With an Administration, the Department of can have trouble in receiving S.S. by the time he is 6 months old! immigration policy in limbo and Homeland Security and the most Disability Benefits, unemployment Some say that financial crimes immigration laws largely arbitrarily recently created cabinet post of benefits or even their S.S. retire- are more numerous than terrorist enforced if at all, thieves and law Director of Central Intelligence pro- ment funds. Others are harassed by related crimes. But in this case one breakers on behalf of people who vide more than ample opportunity to the IRS looking for payment of would have to argue that the stealing should not legally be in the U.S. in plant blame. income taxes earned by their impos- of one’s lifetime earnings, S.S. retire- the first place, are miles ahead of the Hundreds of thousands of ters who do not properly file income ment funds, rights to unemployment behemoth U.S. government, always Americans unknowingly have leant taxes. Why would they? Everything benefits, while breaking tax laws and quick to create new agencies, with illegal aliens their Social Security in America is free, isn’t it? But the committing bank fraud by way of little thought given to their opera- numbers with the average victim problem does not go away. It resur- false documentation more than qual- tions or funding. having had it shared between 30 and faces every April 15th for as long as ifies as terrorist related. Embedded Prior to 9/11 we as citizens and 50 times. Sadly, while government the illegal is shaking down the sys- in our interior, never knowing when legal residents of the U.S. were agencies and private corporations are tem. The IRS is specifically respon- they will strike, like most terrorists already forced to deal with a wrath often aware of the rightful owners of sible for enforcing the requirement they also have no regard for the of criminal activity to which we the stolen Social Security numbers that employers collect accurate S.S. public-at-large. But most distressing lay victims, with a large portion of they purposely do not notify them, numbers, but has never once levied a of all is that these nouveau-terror- it stemming from the sophistica- but do not hesitate to contact them fine against a corporation for failing ists have carte blanche to continue tion of computer technology and for back taxes owed or unpaid loans to do so. to personally terrorize us as they the growth of personal use of the racked up by the imposter a.k.a. ille- And as the Bush administration invade the U.S., with a government internet. Identity theft and tax eva- gal alien. looks to “fix” the funding of Social which continues to walk the fine line sion had already reached astronomi- The federal agencies are not Security there is $420 billion sit- of betraying the public trust. cal proportions. But add to that the involved in trying to tackle the prob- ting in accounting limbo. For every black market documentation theft lem because of their derived ben- worker paying FICA taxes toward DIANE GRASSI rings at the behest of illegal aliens, efit from it in addition to corporate their Social Security fund, millions who have but disdain for the word America’s. Therefore the perpetu- of payments are made to the SSA THE PENNY PRESS, MARCH 3, 2005 PAGE 9 THE PENNY PRESS, MARCH 3, 2005 PAGE 10 Commentary: Albert Thomas high commission whereas investors who place buying ETFs in preference to both load and no- Exchange Traded Funds buy and sell orders with discount brokers will load mutual funds. find commissions around $7.00 to $15.00 to buy AL THOMAS They call ‘em ETFs. or sell. That charge is for one ticket and not per Al Thomas’ book, “If It Doesn’t Go Up, Don’t There are hundreds of them. 100 shares. The commission is the same for 100 Buy It!” has helped thousands of people make The mutual funds don’t want you to find out shares or 1,000 or more shares. Big Wall Street money and keep their profits with his simple 2- about them. firms charge many times this for the same execu- step method. 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Do not place Market this time is about 2% for many funds. Orders when buying and selling most ETFs unless Fund managers tell you it is to discourage it trades more than 250,000 shares each day. As overnight trading that adds to their expenses and with stock there is a Bid and Offer Price. In therefore penalizes shareholders, but that is not thinly traded issues where the ETF has a volume true. of less than 50,000 shares daily the Spread can The two most popular ETFs are SPY and be as high as 20 cents and many times more. In QQQ. SPY is composed of the stocks in the these issue it is suggested Limit Price Orders be SP500 Index with 500 stocks and it is priced entered. If the last trade was $20.50 the Bid could every few minutes. It can be bought and sold any be $20.40 and the Offer $20.60. A market buy time during the day. The mutual funds who tell order would be filled at $20.60 and a sell order at you it is too expensive to price their funds more $20.40. It is best to place a Limit Order at $20.50 than once a day are either lying or stupid. ETFs and most of the time these will be executed at prove that. And that same logic goes for short the Limit Order price. Stop Loss Orders are also term trading. poorly executed in low volume ETFs. The investor buys and sells ETFs the same as Over the next few years as more and more any stock. The big brokerage companies charge investors discover these advantages they will be THE PENNY PRESS, MARCH 3, 2005 PAGE 11 Anti-Gunners Don’t Realize Stuff Happens, Even To Cops By JOSEPH P. TARTARO interest to the Second Amendment take her place during her suspen- FBI Loses Rifles Executive Editor, Gun Week Foundation (SAF). That’s because sion. Next, News4Jax television Special To The Penny Press as chief in Buffalo, NY, where one From what we’ve heard over the reported that while they were sup- SAF office is located, before he years, the two chiefs were not the posed to help beef-up security for With the exception of the most became chief in Seattle, next door to first cops to leave their guns behind Super Bowl XXXIX on Feb. 6, the extreme anti-gunners, most of the Bellevue, WA, where another SAF somewhere inappropriate. FBI lost four sniper rifles, scopes gun-grabbers who want to disarm office is located, he has always been You might think that two stories and ammunition which were sto- the public will allow that there is an advocate of new gun control about two police chiefs’ safe gun len from an FBI SWAT van parked a need for the police to be armed. proposals. He has been for bans on storage practices in one month would outside a hotel in Jacksonville, FL, Some might even admit that the semi-automatic military look-alike cover the “stuff happens” issue pretty before dawn the day of the big foot- military could be armed. long guns—cozying up to Clinton in well, but you’d be wrong. Here are ball game. The “only the police should the early 1990s, gun locks and safe just a few of the other stories related The FBI said the guns belonged have guns” mentality is just one storage, etc., etc. to less than perfect police activities to a team from Atlanta which was in aspect of their fuzzy thinking, but it The report on Kerlikowski’s safe that made the wire services in the Jacksonville to provide extra secu- has become so commonplace, even gun storage habits and how the story first two weeks of February. rity for the Super Bowl. Four high- was treated by his department, his 32 Guns Taken powered rifles with scopes and 80 superiors and the media is wrapped On Feb. 3, The San Francisco rounds of .308 ammunition were up in the space below this column. Chronicle reported that “As the taken from the unmarked, locked Second Chief’s Sidearm store’s alarm rang, thieves made off van parked outside the Holiday Inn Commentary But the ink was barely dry on with 32 rifles and handguns from off Interstate 95. An agent parked the story of one chief’s lost gun, a Fremont, CA, gun shop less than the van at 3:45 a.m. and discovered among much of the media, that Gun when another surfaced in a smaller two weeks after police announced a few hours later the padlock cut and Week’s Weekly Bullet section fre- Midwestern town. they will soon ignore burglar alarms van burglarized. quently has a number of stories that On Feb. 14, Ohio News Now unless there was a confirmed crime. Then, on Feb. 9, in a story that has ridicule that absurd notion. It’s not reported that Police Chief Jeanne According to The Chronicle, Weekly Bullet overtones, Associated that we are anti-police as a few folks Miller had been studying at the Irvington Arms owner Martin Press reported that Shannon Hills, have suggested over the years. It’s Reynoldsburg, OH, Library on Jan. MacDonald was livid over the break- AR, police on a drug raid burst into just that by showing that stuff hap- 3, but shortly after she drove away in at his shop, where burglars used a home during a toddler’s birth- pens, even to the police, we believe from the library she remembered an aluminum baseball bat to break day party with guns drawn, startling we can demonstrate by actual exam- that she left something “very impor- the front door and smashed display children who were getting ready to ples the inability of the anti-gunners tant behind—her gun.” cases with a crowbar before making eat cake when the officers crashed to think logically. It’s our form of “She has a very fine reputation off with $20,000 in guns. the party. “reality” show. in law enforcement and I think the MacDonald blamed the break-in Amid wails from children and a And our editorial approach is city is blessed to have her,” Safety on the Police Department’s poli- few parents—and a phone ringing not formed because we believe that Director Sharon Reichard said cy—announced in January but not incessantly with prospective drug all police are anti-gun. Certainly, the defending the police chief. effective until Feb. 18—that offi- buyers—officers arrested a pregnant results of the National Association Miller admits she left her load- cers won’t respond to burglar alarms woman and accused her of selling of Chiefs of Police survey reported ed gun inside the Reynoldsburg unless they are told there is evidence marijuana from the house. on Page 1 of Gun Week’s Feb. 10 Library and Reichard, who headed of a break-in or security breach. Shannon Hills Police Chief issue prove otherwise. But there an investigation, is convinced no “I think they basically invit- Richard Friend, who led the raid, are some police administrators who one touched the bag, when the chief ed crime into the neighborhood,” said, “The kids were up in high- see their career prospects advanced left the library. said MacDonald, according to The chairs eating pizza, and the cake was by supporting anti-gun policies and “She left; she forgot to take the Chronicle. “It’s on every channel just about to be lit and cut when we politicians, especially when invited bag with her. She got in her car as and in the newspaper. They might kicked the party off a little early,” to the White House to pose with soon as she hit Main Street, she as well have said, in bold print, Friend said, according to AP. the president in the Rose Garden, darted back,” Reichard said. ‘Commit robbery in Fremont,’ Police did not know a birthday as they so often did during Bill Reichard said Miller was only because the PD won’t respond. This party was going on when they decid- Clinton’s terms in office. gone five minutes before she drove was unacceptable.” ed to make the bust. As with most events, there back to get her purse. Fremont Police Chief Craig Elizabeth Leah Sauls, 21, was seems to be an ebb and flow to the However, Mayor Robert Steckler said he adopted the new hosting her niece’s second birthday tide of cops and guns stories, and McPherson decided Miller should policy to save $600,000 a year in party at the time of the raid. She was in February, there seemed to be a serve a 40-hour suspension for for- staff time and equipment costs. More allegedly smoking marijuana in a remarkable flood tide. As I said getting her sidearm unattended in a than 98% of the city’s 7,000 alarm bedroom and continuing to sell pot before, stuff happens, and some- public place. calls last year were false, diverting out of the house as the police moved times with greater frequency. While Reichard had recom- officers from actual crimes, the chief in. Friend said she received 35 calls Early in February, it was mended a two-day suspension after said. requesting the drug in the short time revealed that Seattle Police Chief her investigation, the mayor says he MacDonald said he was not upset police were there. Gil Kerlikowski had his pistol stolen chose a longer punishment period at Steckler personally but added, “I Sauls was arrested on drug charg- from a department car where he had because this was not the first time think the bean counters have lost es but was released without bond left it when we went shopping. Now, Chief Miller had left her gun in a their minds. I think he actually has because the jail was full, Friend Kerlikowski is someone of special public place. A police lieutenant will good intentions, but at what cost?” said. THE PENNY PRESS, MARCH 3, 2005 PAGE 12 Commentary: Joyce Meyer help, and we need grace, which is glory, because success is impossible that effort without depending on Peace Equals His power assisting us and enabling without Him. Jesus said, “…apart God’s power to flow through us. us to do what needs to be done. The from Me [cut off from vital union God is waiting to help someone Power effort we make must be in Christ. with Me] you can do nothing” (John become a peacemaker—and it might So often we just try to do what 15:5). as well be you. Make a commitment Do you ever wonder why peace is right without asking for God’s Sometimes it takes a while to to aggressively pursue peace in His seems to be so elusive? Jesus has help, and that type of fleshly effort really believe this scripture. We try power, and you will quickly discover provided peace for us, but Satan never produces good fruit. The Bible and fail over and over again and that peace does indeed equal power. does everything he can to steal it calls this a “work of the flesh.” It is wear ourselves out before we finally JOYCE MEYER from us. He knows that if we have man trying to do God’s job—and realize that God is our strength, our For more on this topic, you may peace, we will be strong and pow- that never works. We must learn to success, and our victory. He doesn’t order Joyce’s book, In Pursuit of erful, and he wants all of us to be lean on God and ask for His help. just give us strength—He is our Peace, which is available by calling weak and powerless. So he tries to When we succeed, we must give Strength. Yes, we make an effort to 1-800-727-9673 or online at www. convince us that having peace in our Him the credit, the honor, and the keep peace, but we dare not make joycemeyer.org. lives is not possible…that it is not even an option. But he is a liar. He tried to steal my peace with his lies for years, but I finally learned that peace equals power. Maintaining our peace gives us power over Satan. Philippians 1:28 says, …do not [for a moment] be frightened or intimi- dated in anything by your opponents and adversaries, for such [constancy and fearlessness] will be a clear sign (proof and seal) to them of [their impending] destruction, but [a sure token and evidence] of your deliv- erance and salvation, and that from God. The Bible gives us good instruc- tion about how to be peaceful. Proverbs 15:1 teaches us that staying calm and giving a soft answer turns away wrath. In other words, if some- one is angry and yelling, answering him or her calmly and gently will change the situation and stop the possibility of an argument. But in order for this to happen, someone has to choose to be a peacemaker. Even when we are sick or going through a traumatic experience, staying peaceful and calm helps us recover more quickly. Think about the instructions to a woman in labor—she is told that if she will breathe deeply and stay calm, the delivery will be easier. When we face difficult situations, getting upset only makes them worse—it does not help. Pursuing peace for our lives means making an effort, but we can- not maintain peace simply by our own fleshly effort. We need God’s THE PENNY PRESS, MARCH 3, 2005 PAGE 13 Challenge: Take the biggest, heaviest production passenger vehicle made and make it handle like a sports car. Answer: Rollgard™. Like a lot of people, my life precludes the Porsche 911 Turbo or the Saleen Mustang I might buy if practicality wasn’t a consideration. In my case, kids, mountainous terrain, and a lot of stuff to schlep around pretty much rule out sports cars as an option.

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We discovered that you could blast this 8,000 pound vehicle down a winding highway at speeds in excess of 95 miles an hour with complete control only using a very light touch on the steering wheel. The professionals behind the wheel were extremely impressed.

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