Category: Economy

Greenpeace Admits Coal Power a Job Creator

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Recently the enviro-centric group Greenpeace issued an extensive report scolding the “dirty” energy choices made by tech giants like Apple, Google, and Facebook. Greenpeace is all exercised over the fact that many of these companies have moved to North Carolina to take advantage of the coal-produced energy there because the costs are cheaper than the […]

 

Union Operative That Wants ‘Financial Panic’ and Communism Still Working at SEIU

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

You may remember back in March that an audio tape was released upon which an SEIU operative expressed his desire to destroy the American economy by creating “financial panic” and overloading the system. This, it was proposed, could lay the groundwork to turn America into a perfect communist society. The union operative in question was […]

 

Government Handouts Top Tax Revenue

Posted on by Dave Blount

Liberals love the word sustainable. Yet Obamanomics is anything but: U.S. households are now getting more in cash handouts from the government than they are paying in taxes for the first time since the Great Depression. Households received $2.3 trillion in some kind of government support in 2010. That includes expanded unemployment benefits, as well […]

 

$5.4 Million Spent on Wisconsin Supreme Court Race

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It is an amazing amount of money to be spent on a mere state supreme court race but this one was for all the marbles in Wisconsin as far as both sides were concerned, so I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised. Wisconsin Democracy Campaign broke out its calculator and came up with a whopping amount […]

 

Indiana Democrat Fleebagger’s Hotel Bill Completely Paid for by Unions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It wasn’t long ago that Indiana Democrats fled the Hoosier state so that they could avoid doing their job in the state legislature. These Democrats self-righteously claimed that they were doing this “for the people” and insisted that they should be considered as heroes. One Indiana Democrat even claimed that his running off to Illinois […]

 

Your Taxes Paying Government Union Members NOT to Work

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Must be nice to be a government worker in a government union. Heck, some of these government union guys are even paid not to work and paid by the taxpayers to do so, yet! Vincent Vernuccio, labor policy guy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, tells us that the Obama administration is even ignoring its responsibility […]

 

Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. Attacks Apple iPad

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Chicago area Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. is apparently as fickle as he is uninformed about economics and the Constitution both. In March we saw him praising the Apple iPad as technology so important that he wanted to have the federal government buy one for every American student. Only a month later he was calling the […]

 

CBS’ Bob Schieffer, Class Warrior: Hey, I know. Let’s Soak the Rich!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If there was any doubt about how hostile the Old Media is toward tax cuts, spending cuts, and making government accountable and Constitutionally justifiable, CBS’ Bob Schieffer is happy to dispel that doubt. On the April 17 episode of Face the Nation, Schieffer asked Congressman Paul Ryan (R, WS) why we can’t just soak the […]

 

Government Motor’s New Car: The GM WeeKann

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Since Barack Obama has taken over General Motors, the newly installed Obama-owned executives have come up with a way to save the floundering auto giant. They’ve come up with a new car model that they are absolutely sure will save the company. This new car has not been designed by professionals but has been created […]

 

Judge Prosser Declared Winner, Left Loses BIG In Wisconsin Union Fight

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A county canvas of votes for Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice is finished and the result shows that Judge David Prosser, a 12-year veteran of the courts, won reelection over his union-backed opponent. Judge David Prosser’s total now officially stands at 752,323 votes to challenger Joanne F. Kloppenburg’s 745,007. This spread represents a 0.488% margin and […]

 

Geithner Confident GOP Will Cave on Debt Ceiling

Posted on by Dave Blount

If there’s one thing that all rational adults ought to be able to agree on, it’s that the debt ceiling needs to be dramatically lowered, not raised. Yet we read this: Congressional Republicans are trying to figure out which card to play next after the White House got into some high-stakes poker-playing over the weekend, […]

 

Obama Hits Campaign Trail To Tout His Notion Of An Inkling Of A Debt Plan

Posted on by William Teach

Before that happens, he is going to give “4 lucky reporters interviews,” per the front page of The Politico, to “discuss his vision for reducing our debt and bringing down our deficit, based on the values of shared responsibility and shared prosperity.”In other words, the reporters will be unpaid mouth pieces to promote O’s cocktail […]

 

Auto Recall: When The Wheels Come Off Government Motors… Literally

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

GM, Obama’s favorite federally owned car company, was thrilled to report in March that sales figures for the Chevy Cruze helped put the company on the fast track to success but it wasn’t the best news when the wheels began to literally fall off the Cruze causing a recall of GM’s “success” story. As we […]

 

Old Media Gets Rolled on Hoax Story

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Associated Press was very excited to learn that General Electric was going to return its $3.2 billion tax refund to the U.S. Treasury because the company was so embarrassed that it got such a giant refund this year. Why, it was so selfless of GE to be that public minded, AP thought. Only one […]

 

San Francisco discovers free enterprise

Posted on by Bookworm

San Francisco is definitely up in the top five when it comes to “most Progressively governed cities in America.” No surprise, then, that the city’s finances are in a shambles. What is a surprise is the fact that, faced with a looming budget collapse, the City has suddenly discovered capitalist incentives: it’s offering the big […]

 

Even American ‘Cowboys’ Now Government Teat Suckers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last month when the current series of budget debates began to heat up, the ineffectual leader of the Democrats in the U.S. Senate thought he had a great little point against proposed tax cuts by crying that the cuts would destroy Nevada’s “Cowboy Poetry.” Oh, the humanities. You might recall that last month Reid ambled […]

 

‘Educators’ Conference To Get You Racist White’s Minds Right Coming Soon

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Alright you evil, rotten, racist, white oppressors, it’s time once again for the “White Privilege Conference,” this year to be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 13 – 16. Come on out you white teachers so we can get your rotten minds right about how racist you are and so that you can go back […]

 

429 Pages of New Regulations Wrought from 6 Pages of Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obamacare will destroy our healthcare system and our economy both while giving unprecedented and unconstitutional powers to unelected, unaccountable federal regulators. It’s just that simple. Further proof of this was reported by US News and World Report on April 7 where we see that out of just six pages of the Obamacare law, federal regulators […]

 

Budget Victory: All Right, Tea Partiers, Time to Stop Whining and Learn Politics

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Sorry Tea Partiers, but the GOP won this budget battle despite that you didn’t get all you wanted, this was a major GOP win. In fact, treating it otherwise endangers further cuts and bigger budget wins. If the drive to cut the budget stops now, it might be YOUR fault! What is that you say? […]

 

Gov’t Union Chief Says Working for Gov’t is Like ‘Slavery’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In yet another incident that goes to show why government unions should be made illegal as they once were, we find a government union chief so enraged that he and his members might have to tighten their budget belts — like every other American has had to — that he exploded into a charge that […]

 

Drunken Pawlenty Worker At Iowa Family’s Door at 3AM

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

For some unexplained reason a drunken campaign worker for the Tim Pawlenty Presidential Exploratory Committee was found at a Polk County, Iowa Family’s back door at 3AM on Wednesday morning. Ben Foster was arrested and ended up in the Polk County jail after the Steward family called police about a drunken intruder trying to get […]

 

Left-Wingers Have the Cash To Constantly Beat Conservatives

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As some of you may remember I have been covering the anti-vote fraud efforts of True The Vote, a program created by the Texas-based King Street Patriots. They recently sent out a fund raising letter that almost immediately drew the notice of left wingers intent on destroying their anti-vote fraud work. This immediate response by […]

 

Obama’s Bribes to the Wash. Post and CBS

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In a blow to the autonomy of the media it has been discovered that employees of two Old Media outlets are the happy beneficiaries of hundreds of thousands of federal dollars from an Obamacare slush fund. CBS and the Washington Post have both taken large payments from Obama’s Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP), with the […]

 

From Nat’l Journal, One of the Most Biased Reports Seen in Some Time

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Once in a while a purported news report is so biased that it simply must be highlighted. Today’s award for the most biased report goes to National Journal for its left-slanted piece on Obama’s warning to the House GOP that he will veto any budget that cancels his FCC attempt to take control of the […]

 

Obama To Philly And NY As Budget Battle Reigns

Posted on by William Teach

Remember this from Tuesday? President Barack Obama on Tuesday called on congressional leaders – especially Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) – to act like “grown-ups” and avert a government shutdown after they made no apparent progress in reaching a budget agreement at a White House meeting earlier in the day. Obama, in a surprise appearance at […]

 

Top Worst State Budgets: Unions Have Put EVERY State’s Budget In The Hole

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

When you or I overspend our family budget and end up not being able to pay our bills a few things happen, all of them bad. At best we do without luxury items, at worst a bank comes and takes our cars away, our homes away, or, worse yet, we go hungry. When government unions […]

 

Age Of Hopium: Inflation Raising Prices, Not Wages

Posted on by William Teach

So, Monday, everybody but Obama announced his 2012 re-election campaign (which had been actually going on since January 21st, 2009), with the theme of “I don’t agree with Obama on everything, but, I respect him and trust him.” Tells us how that works out as the US Misery Index continues to rise, and consumer prices […]

 

Two Economic Futures For America: One Sustainable And One Unsustainable

Posted on by John Hawkins

The new GOP budget is bold, courageous, and it shows real adult leadership that pulls this country back from the brink. This two paragraph excerpt from Paul Ryan’s Wall Street Journal piece on his budget really shows you the difference between the Republican and Democrat approach in the starkest of terms. The president’s recent budget […]

 

Union Chief Tries to Steal Civil Rights Movement

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A few weeks ago AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka used the Civil Rights movement as a comparison for his union work. He wanted his audience to imagine that unionism is somehow just like the struggles for equality under the law that African Americans sought in the middle of last century. This is a disgusting attempt by […]