Category: Bailouts

Happy Anniversary, Stimulus Package! Boondoggle: Great NRSC Ad

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

This is an excellent ad by the Senate Republicans, released to coincide with the one year anniversary of the boondoggle known as the stimulus package. You know, the one that has served to create or save nothing but debt and further unemployment. This ad needs to run everywhere, and often.:  In fact, it needs to […]

 

How To Become a Millionaire Easy: Become a Gov’t Worker

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Having trouble making ends meet? Eating your meals from a dog food can? Lost your job, seen your retirement accounts dwindle or disappear, having a hard time getting work? Millions of Americans are facing these problems. Some, however, aren’t. And those some are government workers, apparently. Unionized government workers at that. Doug Ross has a […]

 

Restrained No More’s — Jackie in Women and Politics…What a Mix

Posted on by Sharise Parviz

Sarah Palin continues to expose how woman in politics are held to a much higher standard unless they have a “D” in front of their name. In this 3rd episode of Jackie at the RNC the conversations continue and the games are afoot! For other episodes of the show or more info check out- http://www.restrainednomore.com/

 

Barbara Boxer, Ma’am: Obama, Can You, Like, Sign Stuff and Make Icky Banks Lend?

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

During the question and answer period between Obama and Senate Democrats the other day, Barbara Boxer, Ma’am asked if Obama could, you know, sign stuff like Executive Orders, and:  force banks to lend money. No, really. She asked that. Dear Ma’am: Who is John Galt? (Okay, I hate the overuse of that phrase, but it’s […]

 

Restrained No More’s — Happy Inauguration, Mr. President

Posted on by Sharise Parviz

As we wait for our 2010 state of the union address.:  It seemed fitting to take a look back just 1 year and 1 week to see where Obama started. For other episodes of the show or more info check out- http://www.restrainednomore.com/

 

Union Membership Down Another 10%

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

With some ups and downs, unions have been steadily losing members for quite a while and 2009 is no exception. According to the Labor Dept., private-sector unions lost 834,000 members last year. On Friday, the Labor Department reported private-sector unions lost 834,000 members, bringing membership down to 7.2% of the private-sector work force, from 7.6% […]

 

Now WE Will Pay for Unions Fancy Healthcare Packages

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As if there were ever any doubts, the unions bosses that descended upon the White House earlier in the week appear to have succeeded in getting their members excluded from the so-called Cadillac taxes on expensive healthcare packages. The Obama administration, having been bought and paid for by unions, agreed to demands that unions be […]

 

Book Review: What Are These Tea Parties About, Anyway?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A new book about the Tea Party movement — and a movement it really is — will soon be hitting the shelves. “A New American Tea Party” penned by John M. O’Hara, one of the many folks that helped bring us some of those protests in early 2009, is a book that hopes that the […]

 

Looking For Trumbo: California’s Basket-Case Economy

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

George Will crafts quite a descriptive metaphor for California’s failing economy, comparing it to the titular ultimate basket-case soldier in Dalton Trumbo’s infamous 1939 anti-war novel “Johnny Got His Gun.” As Trumbo writes, if Johnny got his gun, then most certainly, “Berkeley Got Its Liberalism.”

 

Tea Party Debate Continued: My Reply to Steve McQueen of BigGovernment.com

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In what I suppose is round three, I’d like to take a moment to reply to the criticism of my Tea Party article which was titled “Tea Parties: The Biggest Mistake We Could Make in 2010.” That criticism is penned by my fellow BG contributor, Steve McQueen whose piece titled “For Tea Parties, Bigger Is […]

 

Two Americas: One Struggling, One Happy, Unionized, and in Government

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I know I’ve said it before, but unionism is antithetical to good government. It is impossible to have both unions and effective government in a democratic republic such as ours. Unions destroy good government, waste money at all levels and they move strictly against the best interests of the voters in all cases. Once again […]

 

Surprise: Obama Springs to Action With Federal Cash for Alabama

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Tropical Storm Ida happened well over a month ago, almost two now. But regardless, the great father in Washington has generously opened up the federal purse to help those struggling folks that lost so much to that storm. The devastation was so bad that USA Today said of the storm, “Tropical Storm Ida slogged ashore […]

 

Charlie Crist: A Serving of Pork Sounds Good

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On November 11, I wrote of the statements that Charlie Crist made denying that he ever supported Obama’s $787 billion stimulus bill in his role as Florida’s Governor. Unfortunately for his obfuscation, though, I noted that he and 17 other governors signed a letter in February of this year announcing support for the Stimulus. Apparently […]

 

Too Big To Fail? Too Big For A Government Takeover.

Posted on by John Hawkins

The Marxist appetite that has helped drive the Left to attempt to permanently embed itself in the nation’s banking and auto industries has yet to be whetted: A senior administration official said on Sunday that after extensive consultations with Treasury Department officials, Representative Barney Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, would introduce […]

 

TARP Report – “We don’t even know where the money went”

Posted on by McQ

So let’s give them health care too! Sorry, couldn’t help myself. The quote in the title is from Democratic Representative Daniel Lipinski of IL. It’s a good preface to a Treasury Department Inspector General report issued today which was rather scathing. USA Today provides the “executive summary”: A Treasury Department watchdog is warning that a […]

 

Penny Wise, Pound Foolish: Slashing Executive Salaries

Posted on by John Hawkins

Even for Congress, this is extraordinarily dumb: Responding to the growing furor over the paychecks of executives at companies that received billions of dollars in the government’s financial rescue, the Obama administration will order the companies that received the most aid to deeply slash the compensation to their highest paid executives, an official involved in […]