Category: Economy

$338.3 Billion Paid to Service America’s Illegal Aliens

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

My friend Gary Karlin over at the Evanston Conservative blog has spent the last year or so collecting a series of stories detailing the costs of illegal aliens to the United States. With just the 14 news stories he highlights, the cost rings in at a staggering $338.3 Billion in money wasted by government giving […]

 

AFSCME Official’s Threats

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees chief Henry Bayer addressed a rally of Illinois unions members on April 21. During his harangue this man revealed the exact sort of logical disconnect in which union thugs everywhere wallow. Bayer noted that 10% of the workforce in Illinois is out of work. OK, then what […]

 

Union Thugs at Capitol Demand Illinois Gov’t ‘Raise Our Taxes’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In the late morning hours of April 21 dozens of rented buses streamed into Springfield, the Illinois capitol, and began spewing out hundreds of tax-gorged union thugs. It was as if the Illinois Hog Producers association had pulled up to the capitol and thrown wide the doors to their livestock carriers. Some estimates say the […]

 

How Unions Are Destroying California

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Steve Malanga of City journal has a great piece detailing how California’s public employee unions are destroying that once great state. Malanga starts by repeating the ominous warning to the politicos at the state capitol in Sacramento made by a Service Employees International Union chief. “We helped to get you into office and we got […]

 

SIGTARP Report Confirms: Homeowner Bailout Program Won’t Fix Housing Crisis

Posted on by Robert Stacy McCain

Connie Hair at Human Events reports: A new report released yesterday (.pdf) by Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) warns that Obama administration efforts to bailout homeowners through the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) are ineffective and will not stem the sweeping tide of foreclosures. The $75 billion HAMP […]

 

Those Delusional ‘Coffee Party’ Lefties

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The self-delusional world in which liberals wallow truly is amazing. It takes an Olympic gymnast’s level of agility to warp your logic enough to think like one of them and a recent report on the left-wing blather site Newsvine is yet one more example of the backbreaking contortions that liberals must indulge to make themselves […]

 

Sam Adams, Andrew Breitbart, and Me: The Third Annual Sammies Awards, a Report

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Sam Adams Alliance, a free-market think tank that specializes in encouraging new media, held its third annual Sammies awards in beautiful downtown Chicago last Friday, April 16. This year the event hosted a visit by the Wall Street Journal’s John Fund and featured a keynote address by media maven Andrew Breitbart. And somewhere in […]

 

Unions Killing U.S. Post Office

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Union contracts are killing the U.S. Post Office, making it uncompetitive and driving costs through the roof according to the Government Accountability Office. The U.S. Post Office lost $12 billion between 2007 and 2009 and has reached its borrowing limit of $15 billion already. On top of that the union pension fund is underfunded. Even […]

 

Cokie Roberts: Japanese Internment Was an Immigration Issue?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Why is it that lefties always get history wrong? The Jewish World Review recently published an editorial by NPR commentator Cokie Roberts and her hubby meant to urge the country toward “comprehensive” immigration reform by praising America’s history of immigrant labor. But even as much of what the two Roberts say is dead on, there […]

 

Senate Dems Prepare to Sneak Through Tax & Charade

Posted on by Dave Blount

The coup de grâce to our capitalist economy, Cap & Trade, has gone under the radar, but is still in play. This outrageous act of sabotage (“likely to be the biggest tax in American history” per the Wall Street Journal) passed the House, and prior to being thrown out of office this fall, Harry Reid […]

 

Race Baiting at Philly Tea-Party: Anti-Tea Party Democrats No Better than Fred Phelps?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On March 6, former George H. W. Bush speechwriter Michael Johns was speaking before a tea party gathering in Philadelphia when someone from the audience took exception to the fact that during his address he did not say “President Obama” but merely called him Mr. Obama. The heckler screamed a racial slur at Mr. Johns […]

 

More Jobless Claims: Obama Administration & Press [But That’s Redundant] Flummoxed By “Unexpected” Economic News

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Okay, I might have made up that last part. It’s true, though, the jobless claims have gone up again. My prediction? They’ll continue to go up for a while, unfortunately. If gas prices inflate (and they will), costs to employers inflate across the board. Makes it tough to hire more people. Here’s the deal: In […]

 

Obama’s Back Alley Healthcare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

For decades abortion supporters argued that restrictions on abortion would cause women to die in unsafe “back alley abortions” all across the land. This scare tactic was a mantra that seemed to work quite well to spread abortions throughout the states and helped spur the Supreme Court to penumbra its way to a pseudo Constitutional […]

 

ObamaCare to Hike Taxes on Middle Class by $3.9 Billion

Posted on by Dave Blount

Remember the incessant pledges from Comrade Obama that the Middle Class would see absolutely no tax increases if he took power? Remember how 95% of Americans were going to get a tax cut? Keep remembering those lies next time you can get at a voting both. Also remember this — ObamaCare includes a $3.9 BILLION […]

 

Perhaps You Too Can Order U.S. Census Gear From China

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Barack Obama is all about saving money, ya know? Why he’s so serious about cutting costs that he’s outsourced to China, Haiti and Bangladesh the manufacture of t-shirts, caps, pens, and other bric-a-brac for the U.S. Census. Yes, in this day where America is losing thousands of jobs on almost a minute-to-minute basis, Barack Obama […]

 

Here’s a Leftist Spin on Healthcare For You

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said that Obamacare is a ”momentous step toward comprehensive health care.” Implicit in that statement is that Obamacare isn’t finished and the left fully intends to up the ante even more as time goes on. But that isn’t the spin I announced in my headline. Here is something from the AFL-CIONowBlog […]

 

Unions’ Big Shift to Government

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Unionism is failing miserably in this age of a greater world market and an increase in competition for business across the globe. More nations than ever have left behind the 18th century and are taking bold steps into a world made smaller by technology. No longer is but a handful of nations leading the world […]

 

Obama’s Assault on Non-Union Businesses

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Donald Lambro has a great piece discussing the new rules that Obama wants to impose on every single business in America that derives even the tiniest part of its income from the federal government. In essence, Obama wants to impose Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) on everyone. As Lambro says, Obama wants to “shatter decades-old, competitive […]

 

Ecomoonbattery Threatens Los Angeles With Insolvency

Posted on by Dave Blount

A property tax take even larger than was expected has given Los Angeles a brief reprieve, but bankruptcy still looms in the near future of the country’s second largest city as a direct result of the environmentally correct but economically insane decrees of California’s moonbat rulers. Los Angeles Department of Water & Power has been […]

 

Obama Responds to Unemployment With More Green Cards

Posted on by Dave Blount

The ultimate objective of every Democrat policy is to increase the power of government, correspondingly lessening the autonomy of the individual. A favored means of accomplishing this is through liberalism’s main secondary objective: pushing the unemployment rate as high as possible. An employed American, like an armed American, isn’t helpless enough for the State’s liking. […]

 

SEIU Union Chief: My White Union Members are all Racists

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On a panel talking about immigration on April 6, 2010, union chief Gerry Hudson of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) said that his white union members are “so fuc_ing rabidly racist” that is scares him. I am also a bit amused that this nut is shocked that there is “significant worker opposition to comprehensive […]

 

Anatomy of Leftist Unreason

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I found a reply on my ChicagoNow blog that is so emblematic of the essential anti-Americanness of the left in our country that I thought I’d explore it in a full post instead of just replying to it on the original page on which it appeared. The comment was oozed out by some extremist named […]

 

Washington Post Ombudsman Misses Point

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Today, in his guise as the Washington Post’s ombudsman, Andrew Alexander posted a discussion about the recent misreporting by the Old Media about the various “incidents” that supposedly occurred between the admittedly raucous tea party protesters and members of Congress in Washington, D.C., during the healthcare fight. But while Alexander finally makes some admissions on […]

 

Partying Like It’s 1994–Or 1946?

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

Restoring the economic growth of 1994 through 2006 and ending “The Great Recession” — an economy being dragged to a sclerotic halt by “the New New Deal” and its myriad of wasteful spending and top-down government controls, can and should be one of the goals of the next Congress, if indeed, the map is painted red in November.

 

Teachers Union Prays for the Death of NJ Gov. Christie

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Sadly, wishing for the death of a political opponent is so typical of the left. Pol Pot, Stalin, the Democrat sponsored KKK, the chief tool used by such folks has been terror and violence. While obviously not as murderous as the aforementioned, unions have also been a violent force in history. And in New Jersey, […]

 

Meeting the EPA’s Decrees

Posted on by Dave Blount

Increasingly, elected politicians are just figureheads. The real power festers in a vast and ever-expanding swamp known as the federal bureaucracy, which crawls with faceless, unelected petty tyrants who are choking the life out of our once-free nation. The most tyrannical among them can be found at the EPA, which recently issued outlandish new edicts […]

 

Pot Calling the Kettle… Unions Say Banks are Corrupt

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Hill Newspaper is reporting that unions are “amping up” for a battle against America’s big banks when Congress is next in session. Uniopns want Congress to institute financial regulatory reform because they feel that banks need to be “held accountable.” The first thought that comes to mind is to wonder when Congress will ever […]

 

Outrageous: FBI Uses Non-Violent Conservative Group as Bait to Catch Stalker

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Senator Patty Murray (D, Wa) doesn’t want to hear from her constituents if they are upset at her vote for Obama’s take over of our nation’s healthcare. One voter in particular has earned Murray’s ire. He has almost daily called Murray’s offices and in no uncertain terms informed the Senator that he hates her healthcare […]

 

Greenspan: Moonbattery Set Off Financial Crisis

Posted on by Dave Blount

Yesterday long-time Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan was called before Congressional bureauweenies to be scapegoated for the financial crisis they caused. But he turned the tables on them, pointing out the obvious by laying blame for the crisis on international economic forces that were pouring money into the U.S. real-estate market, as well […]

 

Can A Grasshopper And The Ant Republic Survive Long Term?

Posted on by John Hawkins

You remember the story of the Grasshopper and the Ant? Once there lived an ant and a grasshopper in a grassy meadow. All day long the ant would work hard, collecting grains of wheat from the farmer’s field far away. She would hurry to the field every morning, as soon as it was light enough […]