Category: Bailouts

Silent Raids a Start for Immigration Reform, but Who Will Finish?

Posted on by Heather Bachman

: : : : : : : : :  In an attempt to show face regarding the illegal immigration issue, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency recently began discussing an avenue which they believe shows that they know how to cure the infectious problem.:  “Silent Raids”, announced as an immense step in immigration reform, is an activity where Federal Enforcement Agents quietly audit […]

 

Sharron Angle For Senate TV Ad: Harry Reid’s Unemployed Nevada

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Republican Sharron Angle is trying to unseat Senate Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid. in Nevada. Her poll numbers look good so far. Here is her first TV ad: Help is on the Way! Defeating the Democrat Majority leader would be sweet, indeed. I hope everyone supports Sharron Angle. http://www.sharronangle.com/

 

Obama: “Yes We Did” USA: “Did What?”

Posted on by Heather Bachman

: : : : : :  Throughout many articles, America continually sees that the Obama administration and his cronies live in a bubble where they are the greatest leaders of this nation and not the ones that are continually selling its future like the stock market.:  Recently, Obama Advisor David Axelrod stated that America would be going “backwards” if they […]

 

Want Economic Stimulus? Don’t Build a Sports Stadium!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

For the last few decades sports teams across the country have nosed up to the public trough and demanded that states and cities chip in millions for the construction of new sports stadiums. To justify the public expense the claim has been made that these monstrous construction projects bring a wealth of jobs and spending […]

 

Video: Ignoramus Democrat Says The More we Borrow the Richer we Get

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Idiot Pete Stark (D, Calif.) says that the more we borrow as a nation the “richer” we get. You see, says Congressman Stark Raving, that trillions of dollars in debt proves that we are a rich people. “If YOU’d SHUT UP,” Stark says we might be able to appreciate his genius. And if the guy […]

 

Obama Says Stimulus Worked, Created Jobs… Here’s a Reminder of the Waste

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In his recent trip to Racine, Wisconsin, President Obama claimed that his stimulus policies worked and “saved jobs.” He also said that his policies staved off another Great Depression. But lets take a look at some of the graft, waste and pointless, useless, wild-eyed spending that was in his so-called stimulus. $5 million to create […]

 

Democrats Need to Explain Themselves on Jobs, Stimulus, and Unemployment (without Blame Shifting)

Posted on by SusanAnne Hiller

Original post at 73wire.com The Hill: reports: that President Obama, Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and other Democrats have gone back into economic crisis mode: Obama urged congressional leaders in mid-June to pass an extension of tax breaks and unemployment benefits, and up to $50 billion in aid for states and local governments. Without Congress acting, Obama […]

 

Talk about Biting the Hand that Fed You: Obama’s Attack on America’s Students

Posted on by Heather Bachman

: : : :  Whether we like to actually admit it, the youth of our nation voted en masse for President Barack Obama.:  Exit polls indicate he won as much as 66% of voters under 30 years old.:  Enchanted by the word “change” entering into the prospective definition of their future, Obama calmed this worried, young sector of […]

 

Obama Knew all and did Nothing….

Posted on by Heather Bachman

From day one of the spill, we have seen that it has left more than tragedy and waste in its path but also a magnifying of exactly what our White House holds: Zero real leadership and continuous degradation of the U.S. Constitution.:  While many political experts have said time and time again that our Commander […]

 

Barton’s Short Lived Gift to the DNC

Posted on by Heather Bachman

Yesterday, Representative Joe Barton issued an apology, first on behalf of the nation and then of himself and called the recent acceptance of the Obama Administration’s orders for BP to pay $20 billion dollars in order to compensate for damage from the spill a “shakedown”.:  This apology was a horrid utterance by a man who […]

 

America Deserves the Apology…Not BP

Posted on by Heather Bachman

BP is deserving of no apology; the real apology, should be to the American people. What is the real “shakedown” are the actions taken by the Obama Administration in order to milk whatever they can get from the BP spill aftermath. While they are happily having speeches cloaked in actions toward BP when in reality […]

 

Obama’s Healthcare Give Away to Union Special Interests

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of Obamacare’s new rules states that if your employer finds it necessary to change healthcare providers to a more cost effective plan they will lose their federal health plan exemptions. This will cause employers to drop employees from health plans forcing workers onto government sponsored plans. So much for Obama’s hoary idea that you […]

 

Video: Why Do Fannie And Freddie Execs Make More Than our Generals?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Representative Peter Roskam tries to offer an amendment that makes sure that the executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac don’t make more money than the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Naturally the Democrats would rather pay millions to the executives that are still running Freddie and Fannie into the ground than accept […]

 

Stimulated?

Posted on by Ron Coleman

On February 17, 2010, we learned that: all doubts had, in fact, been resolved with respect to the economic policy of FDR Slim: Today is the one-year anniversary of the landmark stimulus bill which most economists agree has staved off a second Great Depression. The evidence that the stimulus has worked is overwhelming – the New […]

 

Shame: Nine GOP Reps Supporting Union Bailout

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

For decades unions have mishandled their pension funds. These funds have been embezzled into the pockets of union chiefs, they have been wasted on needless expenses, and have been spent away on left-wing political causes not to mention simple mismanagement and bad investing. It has gotten so bad that few union pension funds for the […]

 

$165 Billion Bailout for Union Pensions

Posted on by Dave Blount

Had enough massive federal bailouts? Our rulers in Washington haven’t. Next come the outrageously lavish and clearly unsustainable pension plans unions receive: A Democratic senator is introducing legislation for a bailout of troubled union pension funds. If passed, the bill could put another $165 billion in liabilities on the shoulders of American taxpayers. The bill, […]

 

Moody’s: U.S. Spending Risks Credit Rating

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

What is astonishing about the Moody’s credit rating is that America still has Aaa standing at all. From Mary Childs in Bloomberg: The U.S. retains its top rating for now because of a “high degree of economic and institutional strength,” the New York- based ratings company said in a statement today that was little changed […]

 

Obama’s $23 Billion Teachers Unions Bailout

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As the rest of us in America lose jobs by the millions, Obama wants to spend another $23 billion more of your taxes on public employees in a teacher bailout plan proposed by Senator Tom Harkin (D, Iowa). Harkin wants this new public employees bailout in order to prevent teachers layoffs, a concern echoed by […]

 

Obama To Whine About GOP Blocking New Jobs Bill Today, Activists Smack Him In Buffalo

Posted on by William Teach

This is not a repeat from early 2009 President Barack Obama on Thursday will urge Congress to move forward on new job creation measures and pounce on Republicans for “obstructing efforts to rebuild” the U.S. economy, a White House official said. Wait, wasn’t the point of the Stimulus to create jobs? And the health care […]

 

YOUR Pay Is Not ‘Above Obama’s Pay Grade’

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

I used to lament the fact that we no longer have a President who can speak on his own without being spoon-fed words via teleprompter. Now, however, I’m glad for it.:  Obama’s reliance on being fed his words makes him unable to speak extemporaneously without revealing his true beliefs. He did so again, when he […]

 

About GM’s supposed debt repayment

Posted on by McQ

You may have seen the announcement yesterday by GM’s CEO that it was paying back a portion of the money it had been loaned by the taxpayers (who borrowed it to loan it) to keep the company from going under and providing it the room for the government to own 61%.:  The White House was […]

 

SIGTARP Report Confirms: Homeowner Bailout Program Won’t Fix Housing Crisis

Posted on by Robert Stacy McCain

Connie Hair at Human Events reports: A new report released yesterday (.pdf) by Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) warns that Obama administration efforts to bailout homeowners through the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) are ineffective and will not stem the sweeping tide of foreclosures. The $75 billion HAMP […]

 

Partying Like It’s 1994–Or 1946?

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

Restoring the economic growth of 1994 through 2006 and ending “The Great Recession” — an economy being dragged to a sclerotic halt by “the New New Deal” and its myriad of wasteful spending and top-down government controls, can and should be one of the goals of the next Congress, if indeed, the map is painted red in November.

 

3rd Annual AFP Defending the Amer. Dream Summit, Wisconsin — Opening Festivities

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I am here in Beautiful Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin for the AFP Defending the American Dream Summit… or I assume it’ll be beautiful once the drab days of Winter are over, anyway. I haven’t been to the Dells since about 1973, so things have changed a tad since I was last here. Tonight, after registration closed […]