Category: Economy

Ohio’s Dem. Gov. Gave Stimulus $$ to Co. That Exported Jobs to El Salvador

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

What was it that Democrat President Barack Obama told us about the stimulus? Oh, yeah that it would “save or create” American jobs. Seems like a good idea, right? So what happened in Ohio when Democrat Governor Ted Strickland got his mitts on some of Obama’s stimulus cash? Why he gave it to a company […]

 

Toilet Paper ‘Down Under’ To Cost More Thanks To Green Policies

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

First the greenies came to take away our lightbulbs in the U.S. and force us to buy more expensive ones. Now the greenies are on the march in Australia with the unkindest swipe of all: forcing Australians to pay 42 percent more for toilet paper. In a report recently put out by Tim Wilson of […]

 

Everything You Need To Know About How Liberals Kill The Economy In A Single Column

Posted on by John Hawkins

This column by small business owner Michael Fleischer is absolutely extraordinary because it gives people who’ve never worked for themselves a window into the world of the small business owner. These are the people who are endlessly vilified by the Left despite the fact that they create most of the jobs in our country. They’re […]

 

Paul Krugman: You Anti-Government Folks Are To Blame For State/Local Money Problems

Posted on by William Teach

If it’s a day ending in a “y”, it must be a day where an inside the beltway mentality liberal is making an absurd argument, casting blame, naming problems, but, unable to provide any rationale for his/her solutions. Over at Powerline, Paul eviscerates Excitable Matthew Yglesias over Matty’s ridiculous “Summer of Fear” opinion piece in […]

 

As They Live off Us, Some Federal Workers Pocket Fraudulent SS Benefits

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

News has emerged today of an investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that has discovered hundreds of federal workers who are pocketing fraudulent Social Security disability payments. This is doubly galling, to say the least. Not only are these federal workers living off we the taxpayers, but now they are stealing from us outright. […]

 

That’s the Bush-Pelosi Recession, Madame Speaker

Posted on by B. Daniel Blatt

Over at Commentary Contentions, Peter Wehner references House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “pathetic and pitiful” response “to the dismal new unemployment numbers”. :  Always on the attack, Ms. Nancy would rather blame Republicans than accept the responsibility for her own party’s failures: Today’s report shows our teachers, police officers, firefighters, and nurses are still feeling the […]

 

As Fellows Lose Jobs Union Fights For Stiffer Drug Benefits: Free Viagra

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Unions have for years been figuring out new ways to screw employers and in Madison, Wisconsin a teacher’s union is looking for yet another way to slam it to the taxpayers by insisting that they get a free Viagra drug benefit. In this bad economy, with states going bankrupt right and left, with teachers being […]

 

Shockingly, Democrats Receive No Political Lift From Stimulus

Posted on by William Teach

Among the inside the beltway political class and ObamaZombies, the Stimulus, otherwise known as the Generation Theft Act (alternatively known as the Pissing Money Down A Deep Well With Little Return Act), has been a super awesome magical piece of legislation, so, they are often clueless as to why it is so darned un-popular and […]

 

Democrat Lobbyist Charged With Campaign Contributions Violations

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Paul Magliocchetti, president of the lobbying firm PMA Group Inc. of Arlington, Virginia, was arrested on August 5 and charged with using friends and family to make illegal campaign contributions in order to skirt federal campaign finance laws. His firm has been under investigation since 2009. In a statement the Justice Department alleged, “Magliocchetti orchestrated […]

 

More Unexpected Economic News, But Only If You’re An Economist In D.C.

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Bad economic news just keeps piling up. Today, the news about jobless claims from the AP: Initial requests for jobless benefits rose last week to their highest level since April, a sign that hiring remains weak and some companies are still cutting workers. The Labor Department said Thursday that new claims for unemployment insurance rose […]

 

Democrats: Say, Let’s Exempt Rich People in Blue States From Tax Hike!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If this doesn’t exemplify the left’s propensity to act in the mode of for-thee-but-not-me, nothing does. The Wall Street Journal (by way of the Wash. Examiner’s Mark Hemingway) reports that at least one Democrat has suddenly realized that when the Bush tax cuts fade away his state will be hit by a massive tax hike […]

 

AFL-CIO Chief Pleading for Union Support of Dems in Nov.

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The AFL-CIO plans to spend another $50 million coming to the aid of Democrats during this campaign season for the 2010 midterms. But all is not well in uniondom as many unions are very, very unhappy with various and sundry Democrat candidates across the country. Still, AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka has issued a call to […]

 

The Era of Obama: Clorox Co. Loses Net Income to Taxes?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In a harbinger of profit statements to come, Clorox Co. — maker of numerous household cleaning products — reports that it’s net income was nearly flat despite a one percent rise in revenue. The reason? Taxes. Clorox Co. says its fourth-quarter net income was nearly flat, even though its revenue rose one percent, because it […]

 

Opposing ‘Net Neutrality’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

While attending RightOnLine in Las Vegas last week we had the opportunity to attend several discussions of the ill advised plans that the Obama administration’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has for regulating and controlling the Internet. I listened to a panel discussion and a stand alone speech on Net Neutrality and the plans the Obama […]

 

How Bad Is Stimulus? Even CBS Notices

Posted on by William Teach

Finally, after 18 months of the disaster known as the Generational Theft Act, the media is starting to notice that bad things happen A couple of Republican senators put out a report today spelling out how they say a lot of the money taxpayers shelled out for the stimulus package was wasted. CBS News investigative […]

 

(Video) Jamal Greene: Why I Am a Conservative?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Jamal Greene took to his video camera to tell us why he is a conservative. His effort is a serious and worthy explication of conservatism and his words should be listened to. Jamal Greene: “In this video I speak about the ideas and beliefs that hold true. As a young educated black male I wanted […]

 

Down Economy: America’s ‘Oldest Family Farm’ Up For Sale

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In a sign of these dismal times, the oldest family farm in America is up for sale because its owners just cannot survive this down economy. After 378 years of contiguous family ownership and operation, the Tuttle family of Dover, New Hampshire is selling its 134-acre farm. Founded in 1632 by John Tuttle fresh off […]

 

Virginia Challenge of Obamacare Wins One in Court

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson refused to dismiss Virginia’s lawsuit against Obamacare, today, allowing the suit against the federal government to continue on to the next stage. The federal government sought a dismissal of the suit that challenges the Constitutionality of the part of Obamacare that requires every citizen to buy healthcare insurance. In his […]

 

Good News: Big Money to be Made in Illinois. Bad news: it’s in Government

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

(Just like in nearly every state, the only people getting rich are those working for government…) With recent revelations that the city manager of the small, mostly low-income Hispanic community of Bell, California makes nearly $800,000 a year and that its police chief makes almost $500,000 yearly, the spotlight might be leveled at city employees […]

 

Letting The Bush Tax Cuts Expire Will Only Hurt The Rich, Right?

Posted on by William Teach

As we head deeper into the silly season, which occurs every two years, it appears as if one of the cute little liberal talking points about the tax cuts of 2001/2003 were only for the rich has truly rotted liberals brains. Facts are pesky things which, after all these years, still elude liberals, and now […]

 

Schwarzenegger Again Orders Furloughs for State Workers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

California has been ground zero in the war between over paid state employees unions and government budgetary concerns and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has leveled yet another salvo in that battle by again ordering more furloughs for state workers. After ending the previous program to furlough 200,000 state workers the Governor has introduced a scaled back […]

 

Paul Ryan Explains Conservative Economic Theory To Ezra Klein

Posted on by John Hawkins

When I saw that Paul Ryan was doing an interview with far left-winger Ezra Klein at the WAPO, I wasn’t wild about the idea because Klein is a diehard partisan. However, I think Ryan did an excellent job of explaining conservative ideas about the economy in the interview. Ezra Klein: It’s clear now that there’ll […]

 

SEIU Attacking Fellow Union for Concessions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Engineers and Architects Association, a 48,000 member public employees union in L.A., has come under attack from the politically active Service Employees International Union (SEIU) for having the civic sense to realize that the high times of ever rising pay at the taxpayer’s expense is coming to an end. In a deal about to […]

 

ACORN Whistleblower Anita MonCrief’s New Venture: EmergingCorruption.com

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief, the brave young woman whose conscience wouldn’t allow her to cover for ACORN’s criminal activity while she was in its employ, has started a new venture. A website dedicated to rooting out government corruption called www.EmergingCorruption.com was launched last weekend headed by Anita and a cadre of writers and researchers (myself […]

 

SEC: No More Transparency For Me

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Just passing along the latest example of rank hypocrisy from the Democrats. The SEC will not have to disclose their business to the American people. Dustin Prial of Fox News reports: So much for transparency. Under a little-noticed provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer has to comply […]

 

Bought and Paid For Gov. Finds Doing Right Thing Hard

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The unions in New York have the idea that they own state government. It’s not too easy to deny their claim seeing as how unions (all of them) have been paying the bills and filling the pockets of ruling Democrats for decades now. But Accidental Governor of New York David Paterson is finding himself in […]

 

Video: Dan Juneau On Impact of Oil Moratorium on Citizens of Louisiana

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Here is a very interesting interview with Dan Juneau, President of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (LABI). LABI is a combination of the state chamber of commerce and the state manufactures organization and represents the business interests of the state. There are 35,000 members, companies of all sizes in the Pelican State. Juneau […]

 

Consumer Confidence Drops On Jobs Worries

Posted on by William Teach

How could that possibly happen in the word of unicorns and lollipops? Job worries drove July U.S. consumer confidence to its lowest since February, with one in six people expecting lower income in the next six months, underscoring the precarious state of economic recovery. A year and a half since we received Barry’s Big Stimulus, […]

 

Reid’s Clean Energy Jobs and Oil Company Accountability Act Only Does The Last

Posted on by William Teach

So, looks like Dingy Harry has introduced his Clean Energy Jobs and Oil Company Accountability Act.You can read the draft text here. To begin with The Clean Energy Jobs and Oil Accountability Act would ensure that BP pays to clean up its mess. Second, it would invest in Home Star, a bipartisan energy efficiency program […]