Economy – Page 45 – John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Big Government Vastly Expands Food Stamps, Prevents Prevention of Fraud

Posted on June 23, 2011June 25, 2011 by Dave Blount

Our rogue government’s approach to food stamps is twofold: 1) vastly increase their use and 2) facilitate the inevitable fraud. Here at least Obama’s disastrous presidency has been a big success: Thanks in part to vigorous federally funded campaigns by nonprofit groups, the government’s AmericaCorps service program, and other organizations urging people to accept government […]

Obama’s Union-Sold Regulatory Agency Goes Even Further for Unions

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

With one regulatory decision after anther, Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has repeatedly abused its position and lent its powers to come to the material aid of Big Labor. This week we see the NLRB coming to the aid of unions yet again by changing rules to fast track union votes in businesses not […]

Dems Plan Proves Medicare Dead by 2024

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Congressman Peter Roskam, House GOP Deputy Majority Whip, got on record the fact that as things stand right now Medicare is dead by 2024. No ifs, ands, or buts, unless a major overhaul of the system is undertaken, Medicare is done in a little more than a decade. Before congress two officials testified that based […]

The Atlantic Magazine’s Lies: Of Breitbarts, Kochs, and RightOnLine

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Last weekend Americans For Prosperity once again held its RightOnLine conference, this year in beautiful downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Consequently, the Atlantic Magazine decided to do a report on what went on at RightOnLine. Unfortunately, the whole thing was filled with opinions stated as fact, misconstructions of facts, and outright lies. Sadly, along with the rest […]

Video Interview: Eric O’Keefe and Getting Rid Of Obamacare With The Health Care Compact

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Obamacare will sink this country if it is ever allowed to come into full operation. So says Eric O’Keefe, Chairman of Sam Adams Alliance, a Chicago-based, free market organization, and chief advocate for the Health Care Compact, an effort that can replace Obamacare and give us a truly American way to address our healthcare problems. […]

VIDEO: Herman Cain Raises Voice at Blogger, Holds His Ground

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Herman Cain appeared at last weekend’s RightOnLine conference (June 18) to two standing ovations. His rousing campaign speech apparently hit all the right notes with the conservative audience in attendance. But afterward, in the blogger access room, there were a few sour notes, in one case Cain even angrily yelled at a blogger over a […]

South Carolina Worker Sues Federal Gov’t Over Possible Loss of His Job

Posted on June 20, 2011June 20, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Barack Obama’s interference in the business operations of Boeing new Dreamliner manufacturing project will likely cause thousands of workers in South Carolina to lose their jobs. Because of this, one Palmetto State worker is suing the federal government for its part in his probable future job loss. This is a story about Obama’s status as […]

Democrats Flailing Around For A Jobs Policy Heading Into 2012

Posted on June 20, 2011 by William Teach

Wait, wasn’t that what the political payback legislation, known as “Stimulus”, was supposed to do? Create jobs? And all the follow-up legislation? The “green jobs” initiatives? Even ObamaCare was billed as a jobs creator. None of which worked, and, it seems, made things worse, so Democrats eye new jobs agenda Senate Democrats are beginning to […]

Just two weeks before QE2 ends, Russia becomes third major country to announce it will dump U.S. Treasury holdings

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Doug Ross

Tyler Durden asks, “Are we and Bill Gross (and certainly not Morgan Stanley) the only ones to see a problem with this“? Just in time for the end of QE2, when the US needs every possible foreign buyer of US debt to step up to the plate, we get confirmation that yet another major foreign […]

“Who Is James Johnson?”

Posted on June 19, 2011June 17, 2011 by Craig Newmark

David Brooks(!) belatedly discovers that a primary cause of the Great Recession was Fannie Mae. But the most devastating scandal in recent history involved dozens of the most respected members of the Washington establishment. Their behavior was not out of the ordinary by any means. For that reason, the Fannie Mae scandal is the most […]

New Open Government and Spending Transparency Reforms Introduced

Posted on June 18, 2011June 15, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

While the Obama administration plays its games with “czars,” more “boards,” and “committees” to implement government accountability policies, Representative Darrell Issa (R, Calif.) has introduced some measures that would do a far better job to meet those goals. President Obama has touted a “Government Accountability and Transparency Board” (GATB) as well as the Recovery Accountability […]

Obama’s Green Auto Decrees to Cost 260,000 Jobs

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Dave Blount

There’s a price to be paid for the trendy green posturing of our sanctimonious moonbat rulers, in terms of not only money but jobs: The Detroit News’s dogged David Shepardson has unearthed a study by one of world’s most respected automotive research firms that reveals that President Obama’s radical CAFE mandate that vehicles average — […]

What Economic Turnaround?

Posted on June 17, 2011June 15, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Obama and his cohorts want to sell the American people a bill of goods. DNC head Debbie Wasserman Schultz is telling the country that Democrats “own” the “recovery.” Only one problem. There ain’t one. Don’t buy the lies, folks. Don’t do it.

Illinois So Broke They Want to Sell Ads on License Plates

Posted on June 17, 2011June 15, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

You know things are bad when governments start selling things they “own.” The latest is the state of Illinois so over spent and in a budgetary hole that authorities are floating the idea of selling advertising space on its auto license plates. The Democrat led general assembly has given the Secretary of State’s office a […]

Herman Cain: Obama’s NLRB ‘A Direct Assault on the Free Market System’

Posted on June 16, 2011June 15, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Presidential candidate Herman Cain (R) recently spoke with FOX Business Network’s (FBN) Neil Cavuto about the dispute between the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Boeing and its impact on the United States economy. Cain said what the NLRB is trying to do keeping Boeing out of Charleston is “a direct assault on the free […]

Illinois Congressmen Help Tip in Big Labor Amendment

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

On Monday I alerted you all to a jobs-killing, union-favoring amendment being considered in the House of Representatives in Washington, one that needed to be defeated. Unfortunately, the amendment was successful and now, in this dour economy, unions will be able to make matters worse just when we need a shot in the arm. (See

Obama Puts Unions Ahead of a Healthy Economy, Free Trade

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

President Obama claims that he wants to “create jobs,” and is happily touting several policies that he claims will create jobs in this jobless, non-recovery. Unfortunately, all his polices really do is shore up the high cost unions that kill job growth. As GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConell says, Obama has “relentlessly pursued an […]

Cal. Union Launches Effort to Recruit Republican Candidates

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

This is a novel approach. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), one of the largest government employee unions in the nation, has decided that they’ve had enough of all those darn Republicans that are… well… acting like Republicans. So, the union has lighted on a new way to be rid of all those darn Republican-like […]

Good News: Obama’s Not Calm About Horrible Economy

Posted on June 14, 2011 by William Teach

No, really Obama: It’s ‘nonsense’ I’m calm about state of economy In an exclusive interview with TODAY’s Ann Curry that aired Tuesday, President Barack Obama addressed the notion that he is unemotional about the human toll that the economic crisis has taken. “I think ordinary folks understand I spend all my time thinking about this […]

Urge Congress to Vote ‘NO’ On Striking $$ Saving Section From Federal Construction Projects Bill

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Today there may be a vote on striking a section of H.R. 2055 that will insure that federal construction projects for the military are fairly priced and will save money for the taxpayers. Some representatives want this advantageous section struck out and replaced with a union-favoring provision that will cost the tax payers millions and […]

As Government Spending Rises, Employment Falls

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Dave Blount

We were told that the more money our rulers frivolously wasted on pork projects, the lower unemployment would be. To the surprise of only the most clueless, “stimulus” spending has had the exact opposite effect. Via Investors.com: Don’t expect the New York Times et al. to figure out any time soon that sucking all the […]

Even Politico Wonders Where All Obama’s “Green” Jobs Are

Posted on June 13, 2011June 13, 2011 by William Teach

It’s great that ThePolitico’s Darren Samualsohn is asking questions about Obama’s green jobs agenda, but, he forgot to ask a few others, such as “how many jobs did the green agenda cost?” We learned from Spain that for ever one created, two private sector jobs are lost. Also, how much do the ones actually created […]

More Arts Funding Boondoggles in Age of Obama Economic Meltdown

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Yes, it’s time for another tale of millions of your tax dollars wasted by the NEA on “art” in America. Supporters of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) like to puff themselves up as saviors of high “art” in lowbrow America. They love to imagine that without their advocacy for spending millions of our […]

Obama’s Plan To Make Your Electric Bills Jump 60 Percent

Posted on June 12, 2011June 12, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Only a few days ago I wrote about how Obama’s new EPA rules would force Americans to pay up to 60% more on their electric bills. This weekend, the Chicago Tribune said the same thing. Leading off saying, “Consumers could see their electricity bills jump an estimated 40 to 60 percent in the next few […]

Unintentional humor in the New York Times

Posted on June 12, 2011June 9, 2011 by Craig Newmark

An article in the Times reviews some of the great economic news about India. In this city that barely existed two decades ago, there are 26 shopping malls, seven golf courses and luxury shops selling Chanel and Louis Vuitton. Mercedes-Benzes and BMWs shimmer in automobile showrooms. Apartment towers are sprouting like concrete weeds, and a […]

Two illustrations of why our government is in trouble

Posted on June 11, 2011June 9, 2011 by Craig Newmark

They seem to have trouble counting. (But ya gotta understand: the numbers are just so very, very big, anybody would have trouble. Not!) How “massively” was Goldman short the mortgage market? The [Senate] report unequivocally states that in 2007, Goldman: “reported net revenues of $11.6 billion, of which $3.7 billion was generated by the structured products […]

Obama’s New EPA Rules Would Destroy Our Energy Sector

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Half of America’s energy comes from coal-fired power plants but Obama’s new EPA rules would about destroy the coal industry driving our energy costs through the roof. That’s not all they would do, either. Even Paul Bedard of USNews says that Obama’s new EPA rules will “slam the coal industry so hard that hundreds of […]

Democrats Fall Back To Their Default Position During Debt Fight

Posted on June 10, 2011June 10, 2011 by William Teach

Said default position is to raise taxes As the clock ticks on raising the nation’s debt ceiling to avoid a catastrophic default, Vice President Biden met with Republican negotiators on Thursday in another closed-door meeting that only showed how far apart both sides remained. In the 2 1/2-hour meeting, the sixth one between the administration […]

Senator Seeking Answers on NLRB’s Attack on Boeing

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Senator Jim DeMint (R, SC) wants some answers as to why Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) thinks it has the power to tell American businesses where they are allowed to build their newest manufacturing facilities. On June 6 Senator DeMint’s office filed a freedom of information request demanding documents connected to the NLRBs decisions […]

Announcing the Running on Empty Tour

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

Americans have sent Obama a bill for: $560,699.03 The number above is how much more gas will cost Americans over the next 12 months compared to the price when President Obama took office. Americans for Prosperity Foundation is kicking off the Running On Empty Tour, a national grassroots tour to highlight President Obama on his […]