Manarin Investment Counsel, Ltd.

The annual Best of Omaha competition is starting up again. This is your chance to speak up and tell the rest of Omaha how you feel about area businesses. We are competing this year to be the best Financial Planning Firm in Omaha! If you would like to support us in this endeavor, please visit http://vote.bestofomaha.com to vote. You can vote all the way up through September 30th, 2011.

TO VOTE:
1. Scroll to the bottom of the home page and click on the link: Click Here to Start Voting!
2. Read the instructions and rules and take note that a total of 15 categories must be
filled in for votes to count.
3. Register email to begin voting (First name, last name & email address).
4. An email will be sent from Best of Omaha to the email address registered and will
contain a link to begin voting and/or a code that can be entered back on the registration page.
5. Begin voting!  Remember 15 categories must be answered for the ballot to count.
The category for which Manarin is to be voted on is under the section Services and the category Financial Planning Firm.

Thank you for your business and your support!

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Over the past few weeks, we’ve been providing you with the information you need to know to understand the debt and budget problems being debated in Washington. We do this so you can make informed decisions based on evidence, not propaganda or posturing (which is all we’ve seen when it comes to the debt ceiling.) So, take a moment to read this update about the discussions in Washington, and get a different perspective.

Click Here

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Part 2 of the First Trust Portfolio’s series on the debate over raising the debt ceiling. Watch and learn the difference between truth backed by facts versus sensational “news” broadcast to sell advertising.

Click here: First Trust - www.FTPortfolios.com

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The treasury will not default. Politicians are not good at math and do not want you to be either. They may have to give up some of their pet projects or sweet deals.

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/fundmastery/2011/07/12/the-u-s-treasury-will-not-default/

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You've probably heard all the talking heads on TV shouting about how Congress needs to raise the debt ceiling or the entire government will default on its obligations and shut down. In reality, this is little more than the typical case of the media and politicians warning us that the sky is falling to push their own agendas. Take a few moments to watch this video from Brian Westbury, where he shows how our government's debt obligations really work and why this looming default just plain won't happen.

http://www.ftportfolios.com/Commentary/EconomicResearch/2011/7/6/debt-ceiling-part-1

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By W.F. Evans and published in the Waco Tribune-Hearld in Waco, TX on November 18, 2010.

"Put me in charge of food stamps. I'd get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for
Ding Dongs or Ho Ho's, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans,
blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want
steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.

Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I'd do is to get women
Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test
recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and
piercings. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get
tats and piercings, then get a job.

Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks?
You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your
"home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be
inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your
own place.

In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or
you will report to a "government" job. It may be cleaning the roadways of
trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We
will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo
and speakers and put that money toward the “common good..”

Before you write that I've violated someone's rights, realize that all of
the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules.. Before
you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin their "self esteem,"
consider that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money for
doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.

If we are expected to pay for other people's mistakes we should at least
attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system
rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.

AND While you are on Gov’t subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes that is
correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. You will
voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Gov’t
welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job."

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