Category: Economy

ObamaCare Already Causing Insurance Prices to Rise

Posted on by Dave Blount

Only the severely cognitively challenged could have failed to realize that ObamaCare would drive up the cost of medical insurance. But just to get it on the record: Health insurers say they plan to raise premiums for some Americans as a direct result of the health overhaul in coming weeks, complicating Democrats’ efforts to trumpet […]

 

Majority of Union Members Now Work for Government

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It is the most important hill that folks interested in good government have yet to conquer and that is the elimination of government employee unions. The Heritage Foundation reports the sad and disgusting news that the majority of union members now work for government, an intolerable situation to say the least. The BLS’s annual report […]

 

Democrat Policies Kill Last Major Incandescent Light Bulb Factory In USA

Posted on by William Teach

Strange that we always hear that Democrats are for the little guy. If so, they wouldn’t be looking to raise taxes on small business owners, nor enact legislation that drives companies out of business, putting “the little guy” on the unemployment line The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United […]

 

A Reminder of What Union Leaders Feel About Our Political System

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Back in 2007 Andy Stern, the now former President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), attended a forum sponsored by the NDN Globalization Initiative and during the question and answer period after his remarks he said that he was “totally involved in distorting the political system.” Here the president of one of America’s most […]

 

Stadium Deal in LA a Moneypit

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Whenever I think of this new Staples sports stadium deal going down in Los Angeles I can’t help but think of the “bread and circuses” that contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire. Here is the City of L.A. sinking millions into this entertainment project leaving the people destitute and all for what? After […]

 

SEIU’s Illegal Fund-Raising Scheme

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, has an interesting expose in the Washington Examiner revealing how the U.S. government has decided to allow an obviously illegal fund-raising scheme that the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) invented to fuel its spending on political causes and campaigns. The SEIU has decided […]

 

Recovery Summer Becomes “Eh, Maybe The Jobs’ll Come Back In A Few Years”

Posted on by William Teach

As more and more media outlets publish stories about just how bad the economy is, particularly the unemployment situation, I wonder if they will finally place the blame where it belongs, namely, on President Obama and the elected Democrats? You know that they will certainly blame Republicans in the House, which they are sure to […]

 

‘Something Weird Happens When Presidencies Go Wrong’

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

As John Podhoretz wrote last week, “Something weird happens when presidencies go wrong — presidents become incompetent at doing the things they were always able to do in their sleep, and their aides follow suit.”

And that was before President Obama’s was dogged by unforced errors on this holiday weekend

 

California Dreamin’: Chasing The Mythical Green Jobs Beast

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

California struggles these days. In some segments of their workforce, like agriculture, they’ve had nearly 40% unemployment. Part of the problem California faces is pie-in-the-sky environmental and tax burdens while simultaneously hoping businesses will stay in the hostile climate. Businesses are leaving. Why? Global Warming laws like AB 32 are making it hard to do […]

 

Cloward-Piven Spending Spree Continues

Posted on by Dave Blount

Obviously our economy cannot sustain still more government spending. But with grown-ups poised to take control of Congress, Democrats continue to shovel money in a frenzy, knowing that if they dig us into a deep enough hole, there will be no climbing out. From the Wall Street Journal: The Obama administration on Tuesday will launch […]

 

Credit Card ‘Reform’ Will Force All Credit Purchases to Exceed $10

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Previous to the current meddling by Congress, stores were technically not allowed to require a minimum purchase for credit cards. If you wanted to charge ten cents or ten dollars merchants were supposed to accept the charge. But the Durbin Amendment (Sen. Dick Durbin, D of Ill.) to the credit card “reform” bill passed by […]

 

Infrastructure Spending Back On Obama Radar Updated: Now With Full Obaaaaaaam-bulance!

Posted on by William Teach

What’s that saying about “doing the same thing and expecting different results”? It really doesn’t matter if Obama went to Columbia and Harvard. It doesn’t matter that he is POTUS. The guy is an idiot. That is the only answer to one of Obama’s latest economic stimulus plans Vowing to find new ways to stimulate […]

 

Fish Wrap Of Record: Hey, The USA As A Superpower Is No More

Posted on by William Teach

A peak inside the mindset of Liberal World, as espoused by Thomas Friedman In recent years, I have often said to European friends: So, you didn’t like a world of too much American power? See how you like a world of too little American power – because it is coming to a geopolitical theater near […]

 

Axelrod: The GOP Blocks Everything done To Help Recession

Posted on by Heather Bachman

: While the possibility of yet another stimulus package stood in the wings, Senior White House Advisor David Axelrod recently discussed his conservative opponents involvement in the attempt to revive the nation our of the current recession as attempts “to block” every effort to repair the issues.:  Obviously not able to make any examples, yet another […]

 

So, The Wage Gap IS True. Only, It’s Men Who Earn Less

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

The Left is still busily trumpeting the fallacy-filled idea of there being a wage gap in favor of men. In fact, the DNC recently sent out an email once again attempting to promulgate this lie, on the 90th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage, no less. Hey, never waste a Crisis â„¢, real or imagined, and also […]

 

Violence Soaked AFL-CIO Prez Calls Palin a McCarthyite?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

For his Labor Day weekend trick, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka leveled the charge of McCarthyism at former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. This is a bit rich from a guy with blood on his hands — and I don’t say that figuratively, either. At a September 2 meeting sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, Trumka claimed […]

 

Net Neutrality Update

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If you are as worried as I am about the left’s effort to force ever larger amounts of big government onto our lives, then you should be looking into the issue of Net Neutrality. To that end a few times a week I’ll be posting some links and info about Net Neutrality to help you […]

 

Video: Tell Obama and Congress to Halt The Assault on Small Business

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

From the folks at the Free Enterprise Alliance, a group of free market advocates backed by the construction industry. Appearing on televisions in places near and far, ABC’s Free Enterprise Alliance this week will launch a new ad asking travelers to look around, find a representative, and tell them to Halt The Assault on free […]

 

Members of Oregon’s State Employee Unions Get 5% Pay Raises… as Taxpayers Lose Jobs!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston Unbelievable. In Oregon the reg’lar folks are losing their jobs right and left. And the bad luck for those actually paying the bills, the taxpayers, gets even worse because Oregon’s politicians have made sure that the state’s public employees unions get an automatic 5% pay raise starting this Wednesday! 5 percent […]

 

UCLA Cans Professor James Enstrom for Thought Crimes

Posted on by Dave Blount

Under a hard tyranny, if professional intellectuals fail to toe the official line, they are imprisoned or killed. What happens to them in a soft tyranny? Ask Dr. James Enstrom, a professor at UCLA who has been fired for thought crimes: Enstrom, an epidemiologist at UCLA’s School of Public Health, … says his studies show […]

 

Paul Ryan: Obamanomics Has Failed

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Congressman Paul Ryan (R, Wis) and former Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Holtz-Eakin came together early this week to lambaste Obama’s failed economic policies. In a conference call to supporters and the press, CBO Director Holtz-Eakin said that there is “no evidence” that “the stimulus has really worked” and that Obama’s Keynesian fixes simply won’t […]

 

The Right Needs to Wake up to Net Neutrality

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If you are as worried as I am about the left’s effort to force ever larger amounts of big government onto our lives, then you should be looking into the issue of Net Neutrality. To that end I’ll be posting some links and info about Net Neutrality to help you all get your feet wet […]

 

The Arrogance of The Public Employee Union Member

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In a recent story detailing the efforts of 3,000 postal employee union members marching against USPS management in Detroit, one quote by a union member stuck me as wholly emblematic of the arrogance of government employee union members and it shows the disconnect between the real world and the cushy world of government workers. As […]

 

USA Today Tries To Provide Shelter For Obama And Dems On Stimulus

Posted on by William Teach

With the mid-term elections fast approaching, and the blood-bath that should occur, the Credentialed Media is doing all they can to prop Obama and the Democrats up, especially regarding the economy. They try pithy things like Economists agree: Stimulus created nearly 3 million jobs in order to show that Democrats have actually Done Something. Of […]

 

$400 K For State Employee That Never Showed for Work For 12 Years

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

CNN reports that an employee contracted with the state of Virginia for 12 years seems to have never actually done any work for the agency she was attached to, Norfolk officials say. This employee was discovered by the new director of the Norfolk Community Services Board who was looking through the office’s records finding the […]

 

Weekly GOP Video Address: Florida’s Marco Rubio… ‘We Must Repeal Obamacare!’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Marco Rubio is running for Senate in Florida. He is a former speaker of the Florida House of Reps and is currently leading in the polls in the Sunshine State. Some have been wondering if the national GOP was going to actually run on repealing Obamacare. Well, this is the official GOP address, Party approved, […]

 

AFL-CIO Joins Communists, La Raza, ACLU, Other Unions in Voter Registration Drive

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Looks like the AFL-CIO is no longer even trying to hide the fact that it no longer sports a traditionally American political outlook. The labor union has announced that it is joining a voter registration drive called One Nation Working Together. This coalition is filled with some of the most extremely leftist groups in America […]

 

That Stimulating Stimulus Paid for Homemade Porno?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well if this isn’t a fitting addition to the story of the stimulus what is? The University of Notre Dame in Indiana recently fired an electrical engineering professor over allegations that the prof used $190,000 in federal grant money and matching university funds to buy cameras and other equipment to make homemade porno. Like a […]

 

Cash For Clunkers Hurting Lower Class Car Buyers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In yet another see-I-told-you-so moment, Obama’s cash for clunkers program is now hurting lower income folks who wish to buy used cars by driving costs up an average of $1,800 above what used car prices were at this time last year. In August of 2009 I wrote that Obama’s cash for clunkers program would “soon […]

 

Police Layoffs: Thanks To Obamanomics, You Can Be A Double Victim!

Posted on by William Teach

First, you have to live with the consequences of terrible economic policy that is destroying America, next Budget cuts are forcing police around the country to stop responding to fraud, burglary and theft calls as officers focus limited resources on violent crime. Cutbacks in such places as Oakland, Tulsa and Norton, Mass. have forced police […]