Category: Economy

Vdeo: Repealing Obamacare and Restoring a Free Market in Healthcare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Economics 101 and what we do AFTER we repeal Obamacare… Ed Morrissey also has some good commentary about this video at HotAir.com. Created by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity. Visit their webpage at www.freedomandprosperity.org.

 

Michael Moore Caught Stealing Others’ Work

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Filmmaker Michael Moore, famed for his propagandistic left-slanted portrayals of America in such films as Roger and Me, Bowling for Columbine, and Sicko, is under fire for lifting the work of a writer from the Knoxville News Sentinel and reposting it on his own site in total despite that copyright laws disallow such a practice. […]

 

Review: Obama’s Not a Socialist, by Stephanie Herman

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The most often used epithet cast at President Obama is that he’s a raving socialist. It is an easy charge to make what with his wanting to “spread the wealth,” his desire to destroy the autonomy of the business community and place it squarely under the thumb of government, and his constant expansion of big […]

 

Unions Violating Disclosure Rules

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

When Barack Obama took office, one of the early things he did was install Hilda Solis, a long-time union operative, as head of the Department of Labor. And one of the first things she did was to ease the reporting requirements on unions, softening the violation of disclosure rules. In August of 2009 Labor Sec. […]

 

Sharron Angle For Senate TV Ad: Harry Reid’s Unemployed Nevada

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Republican Sharron Angle is trying to unseat Senate Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid. in Nevada. Her poll numbers look good so far. Here is her first TV ad: Help is on the Way! Defeating the Democrat Majority leader would be sweet, indeed. I hope everyone supports Sharron Angle. http://www.sharronangle.com/

 

Want Economic Stimulus? Don’t Build a Sports Stadium!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

For the last few decades sports teams across the country have nosed up to the public trough and demanded that states and cities chip in millions for the construction of new sports stadiums. To justify the public expense the claim has been made that these monstrous construction projects bring a wealth of jobs and spending […]

 

President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Alvin Greene: The Three Economic Stooges

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Evidently, not only are Democrats not creating or saving jobs, but it appears as if they are in cahoots to put The Onion out of business. You see, it is impossible to satirize people who are self-parodies themselves. The latest example is Alvin Greene, the current Democrat candidate for Senator in South Carolina, who recently […]

 

Another Sign of Unions Losing Allies

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Again the New York Times reports on the confusion, anger, and loss of influence being experienced by shocked unions, this time teachers unions. Like the psychotic that lashes out at everyone around them when things are going wrong, at a New Orleans teachers union convention there is a lot of harsh words for former friends […]

 

First Lady to Waste Millions ‘Visiting’ The Gulf Oil Spill

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

When times were flush, I guess it didn’t seem so outrageous for the First Lady of the White House to fly about the country “visiting” places as if she were an important part of our national government. I suppose it was nice to have a First Lady leading by example with her advocacy programs and […]

 

During A Dempression, You Get A Job Offer, You Take The Job

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

I know I’m supposed to read this and feel sorry for this smart 24 year old waiting for the perfect opportunity, but I don’t. From the New York Times: Over the last five months, only one job materialized. After several interviews, the Hanover Insurance Group in nearby Worcester offered to hire him as an associate […]

 

An American Tragedy: When Commies Give You Lemons…

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Chicago Sun-Times financial reporter Terry Savage wrote a little opinion piece this week about a kid’s lemonade stand she came across in a ritzy, liberal northern suburb of Chicago. The kiddie enterprise violated one of our most sacred American principles and Savage was incensed by the whole incident. Savage stopped to buy some lemonade from […]

 

Video: I Am A Tired American

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well, we just celebrated Independence Day, a day we rejoiced at the things we love about America. But, let’s face it, there are things going on in America today NOT to love. Here is a video to point out those things we are all “tired of.” Forgive me if I posted this here before. I […]

 

Video: Ignoramus Democrat Says The More we Borrow the Richer we Get

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Idiot Pete Stark (D, Calif.) says that the more we borrow as a nation the “richer” we get. You see, says Congressman Stark Raving, that trillions of dollars in debt proves that we are a rich people. “If YOU’d SHUT UP,” Stark says we might be able to appreciate his genius. And if the guy […]

 

Dear, Former Victims of Socialism/Communism, America Needs OUR Help!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

(A friend of mine, Leon Weinstein who is a US citizen that emigrated from the USSR in 1974, wrote this because he is alarmed that the U.S. is headed to the hell he ran from so long ago. This is important stuff, folks. Leon KNOWS what he’s talking about as he lived through Russian Communism. […]

 

Obama Says Stimulus Worked, Created Jobs… Here’s a Reminder of the Waste

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In his recent trip to Racine, Wisconsin, President Obama claimed that his stimulus policies worked and “saved jobs.” He also said that his policies staved off another Great Depression. But lets take a look at some of the graft, waste and pointless, useless, wild-eyed spending that was in his so-called stimulus. $5 million to create […]

 

Even the NYT Noticing that Unions Losing Friends and Allies

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

You know its bad for unions when even the New York Times publishes a story reporting that Big Labor is losing friends and allies in formerly well controlled political spheres. But such is the times in which we live where fiscal disaster is highlighting the illicitness that is unions in general, but public employees unions […]

 

Democrats Need to Explain Themselves on Jobs, Stimulus, and Unemployment (without Blame Shifting)

Posted on by SusanAnne Hiller

Original post at 73wire.com The Hill: reports: that President Obama, Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and other Democrats have gone back into economic crisis mode: Obama urged congressional leaders in mid-June to pass an extension of tax breaks and unemployment benefits, and up to $50 billion in aid for states and local governments. Without Congress acting, Obama […]

 

Stimulus Funds Go to Busing in Mexicans for Free Educations

Posted on by Dave Blount

How convenient for Mexican bandits that they no longer have to ride around under the desert sun with heavy bandoliers slung across their chests. With our quisling rulers on their side, looting us is so easy, children can do it. Our liberal kleptocracy confiscates taxpayer money to bus in Mexicans from across the border for […]

 

Pelosi: Paying People to Do Nothing Stimulates Economy

Posted on by Dave Blount

Through excessive taxes and regulations, our socialist rulers are creating an economic climate in which finding a job is unlikely, but fortunately no one needs a job with Big Government there to hand you other people’s money as unemployment compensation forever and ever. As an added benefit, paying people to sit at home watching TV […]

 

Obama Fairness? White House Staffers See Amazingly Unequal Pay

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In January one of the early “successes” of the White House was the Lilly Ledbetter Act, legislation that was supposed to insure equal pay “for everybody.” Apparently, as in all Obama’s pronouncements, the outcome of Obama’s drive for “fairness” is rarely as advertised. In this case, some people are more equal than others at least […]

 

Uh Oh. Media Noticing That Democrat Economic Policies Aren’t Working

Posted on by William Teach

Of course, they won’t come out and say that, since they vote Democrat mostly, after all. Many of them have seemed to have turned a corner in wondering just what the heck the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats are doing The economic expansion is sputtering. It’s been hit or miss ever since the passage of […]

 

Democrats Continue to Use Tax $ to Pay Union Members to do Union Business

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Once again Democrats decided that it was a good idea to pay workers of federal employee unions 100% of their salary to do union business during work hours instead of doing the job they were hired for. That’s right, instead of paying these federal employees to do the job we the people hired them to […]

 

Obama Wants to Talk Energy… Well, Except for BP Spill

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On one hand the administration and its cohorts in the Democrat majority want to use the BP oil spill as an excuse to wildly raise taxes on energy, to instill cap and trade, and to excuse more regulations in order to take control of as much of our national economy as possible, yet on the […]

 

Dems Include Union Bailout in War Funding Bill

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There is no other aspect of Washington D.C. that upsets voters more than government spending surreptitiously added on to spending bills and this week Congress indulged its inner drunken sailor once again by adding a $10 billion bailout for teachers unions in the bill that is supposed to fund the war effort. The teacher union […]

 

Kerry-Lieberman Energy And “Jobs” Bill Is A Jobs Killer

Posted on by William Teach

Remember this little nugget from John Kerry back on June 6th on ABC’s “This Week”? “Every major study that has been done by a legitimate group … shows that there are hundreds of thousands of jobs to be created if you pass our (cap-and-trade) legislation. And if you wind up pricing carbon.” Uh huh. PolitiFact […]

 

Worst Teachers Rewarded by Unions, New Teachers Abandoned

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last week the Chicago Tribune published an editorial detailing the biggest reason why unions as they have operated in the U.S. for decades are an illegitimate venture. The Trib published a plea to new Chicago teachers union chief Karen Lewis not to protect the bad teachers under her charge and to help the younger teachers […]

 

The High Cost of Other People Living Beyond Their Means

Posted on by Dave Blount

At least we’ve learned our lesson, and the Fanny/Freddy debacle that caused the economy to collapse in 2008 has been put behind us… Say, what’s that jutting up out of the ocean just ahead? For American taxpayers, now on the hook for some $145 billion in housing losses connected to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac […]

 

Beer Monday*: Chump Who Skyrocketted Deficit Says He’s Serious About Reducing It

Posted on by William Teach

Another Monday! Time to get busy, shift a few paradigms, brow-nose the bosses. How ’bout a beer? You just know those beers Obama shared with British PM Cameron after losing a soccer bet went right to his head President Barack Obama said on Sunday he would follow through on a pledge to rein in soaring […]