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"You have no right to tell the man who produced the wealth how you want him to spend it. If you need his money, you can obtain it only by his voluntary consent." - Ayn Rand
FedEx Ground Plans Norcross Facility2/18/11 Gov. Nathan Deal joined with officials from the Gwinnett Chamber and the city of Norcross today in a groundbreaking ceremony for FedEx Ground, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp., at the future site of its new distribution facility. The company will... More Georgia Republican Party Shines Spotlight on Agriculture With State Leaders2/8/11 The Georgia Republican Foundation, Chairman Sue P. Everhart and Foundation Chairman Chip Pearson hosted a breakfast featuring a panel discussion on the current state of Georgia's agriculture industry. Panelists included Agriculture Commissioner... More Exide Technologies - Investor Meeting2/7/11 Exide Technologies (Nasdaq:XIDE) (www.exide.com), a global leader in stored electrical energy solutions, announced today the Company will host an investor meeting at the DoubleTree Hotel in Roswell, Georgia, on Wednesday, February 9, 2011... More Georgia Income Tax Returns Are Being Processed And Accepted Despite IRS Delay1/29/11 The Internal Revenue Service announced on January 20 that they will not accept e-filed or paper returns from a select group of taxpayers until mid-February due to changes to the 2010 Federal Internal Revenue Code. However... More "If the American people ever allow a central bank to control of the issuance of their currency, the banks and the corporations that will grow up around them will, first by inflation and then by deflation, deprive the people of their property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." –Thomas Jefferson |
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CCP Games Announces Georgia Expansion2/24/11 Gov. Nathan Deal announced today that CCP Games, the Reykjavik, Iceland-based digital entertainment developer, will relocate its CCP North America headquarters from Gwinnett County to the City of Decatur in DeKalb County... More SBA To Hold Series of Federal Contracting Forums2/8/11 The SBA is sponsoring a series of federal government Small Business Forums that are designed to provide basic contracting, marketing and resource information to the small business owner. The forums, which are free to the public, will also help identify business opportunities and assist small... More Skyline Pest Solutions & Home Inspections announces the acquisition of CRC Services Termite & Pest Control in Marietta, GA2/7/11 Skyline Pest Solutions & Home Inspections announces the acquisition of CRC Services Termite & Pest Control. CRC Services Termite and Pest Control had been serving Metro Atlanta and North Georgia for over 30 years. CRC Services was a privately-held family business founded by Connie R. Couch... More Micro-loans Available for Small Businesses in 50 North Georgia Counties1/6/11 A ceremonial big check for $605,000 was presented today by Donnie Thomas, acting state director of USDA Rural Development, to Grace Fricks, chief executive officer of Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs (ACE)... More "We have managed, in about the last thirty years of relative peace and unprecedented prosperity, to pile up a debt that rivals the one we piled up while winning the Second World War, the most disastrous and largest war in human history. And this debt is of a different character. The Second World War was going to end at some point, and we were either going to win and go back to living and working and pay off the debt – which is what happened – or else we were going to lose and then the debt would never be paid. In contrast, our debt today has become the ordinary way our government and our country operate. As my father … used to say, it is the kind of debt that means it really doesn't matter how rich we've become, because we can waste money faster." – Larry P. Arnn, president, Hillsdale College |
