Category: Economy

Smosska’s ACORN Smoke Screen

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston This is an update on a story about a company in South Carolina named Smosska that I covered back in July. At this point, it seems beyond question that Smosska is a sham organization that was set up by ACORN in order to hide “community activism” behind a false front in […]

 

How ACORN Hides Behind Fake Names

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Many states have ways to look up the businesses, organizations and people with whom the state does business. Illinois has such a service on the Secretary of State’s website. In Illinois there is a way to search the folks the state does business with on a page titled Corporate/LLC Search / Certificate of Good Standing. […]

 

Obama’s Stimulus for Unions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Stimulating the economy isn’t nearly as important to President Obama as putting federal dollars into the pockets of his union cronies. Because of Obama’s PLA Executive Order, thousands of jobs are going to unions in states that have few union members. The Washington Times, for instance, reports that Obama has grandiosely given a $35 million […]

 

And Now Senator Schumer is Lying about Job Loss

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

You know, our job loses are bad enough without President Obama and now Senator Chuck Schumer lying about it all and making it sound even worse than it is. But this particular lie is a very particular lie, one that is aimed to make the presidency of George W. Bush the bad guy. Job loses […]

 

The Stimulus Is A Failure: Guess Whose Fault It Is?

Posted on by William Teach

We said “Don’t pass the Generational Theft Act. It is laden with pork, most of it doesn’t actually kick in until, surprisingly, an election year, and it is basically a decades long wish list of Democrat wants, among others. We can’t back something that is going to mortgage the future of America’s children and grandchildren.” […]

 

Dems False Talking Point of 80% Agreement

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama has repeatedly been heard to say that Congress agrees on “about 80% of what needs to be done” on healthcare. And many Democratic congressmen have been echoing this since Obama’s Sept. speech. The meme has been used to present their case as if Obamacare is somehow mostly acceptable by all concerned. Even some Republican […]

 

Federal Recovery Tracking Website Hides $$ to ACORN

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

We are discovering that Obama’s promised transparency only goes so far in reporting where stimulus money ends up going. The new tracking website, Recovery.gov, is supposed to let us all know where the federal “stimulus” money is going but apparently will not track money that goes to groups like the Association for Community Organizations for […]

 

Obama Plays Race Card, Links Health Care To Civil Rights

Posted on by William Teach

Yes, yes, I know, we are supposed to be boycotting The Politico for their idiotic lawsuit threat against The College Politico, but, they are the only one with the complete story and the information to match it up (others have some, but, not enough), so, I hope you’ll excuse this one lapse: Obama links civil […]

 

Obamacare Mandates Will Cost Business $49 Billion a Year

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It has been estimated that employer mandates forced on businesses by H.R. 3200 and the other legislation barreling through Congress will cost America’s businesses $49 billion a year if passed. According to the Heritage Foundation the mandates in the bills now under consideration will force employers to buy healthcare insurance for their employees or pay […]

 

Obama to Waste More Growing Welfare in a Year Than Bush Spent on Entire Iraq War

Posted on by Dave Blount

When liberals whine that the war to liberate Iraq cost too much, they make an argument that would be reasonable — but only if someone else were making it. We now know that their Teleprompter Messiah will flush more money down welfare in the next year than Bush spent on the entire war. During the […]

 

Obama is ‘Concerned’ About Blogosphere

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Hill is reporting that Obama is now “open” to a newspaper bailout. Well, welcome to the state run media. Not long ago Senator Ben Cardin (D- Md.) introduced S. 673, the Newspaper Revitalization Act. It is supposed to give news media tax breaks if they restructure as a non-profit corporation. So far, though, the […]

 

School Pensions Making Millionaires out of Retiring Employees

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Bill Zettler recently submitted a Freedom of Information request on the pensions of 13 retiring public school employees from District 211 in Palatine, Illinois and he found that the people of Illinois are on the hook for over $50 million in pension benefits promised to people retiring at the average age of 58. Zettler found […]

 

Is it American to be Forced Into a Union? In Obama’s America it is!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Welcome to Obama’s America where you are forced to become a union member even if you had no idea you were being inducted into one. In fact, in Obama’s America you won’t even know you are IN a union until you notice union dues are being withheld from your checks. This is the case in […]

 

The Newest Thrill Ride Named Porkulus

Posted on by William Teach

Of course, this Washington Times story is less than shocking, but, hey, all you Democrat supporters might want to take notice of the rank partisanship After a two-week binge to meet President Obama’s 200-day goal, stimulus spending has plummeted once again – and the roller-coaster pace of spending has critics worried about how the money […]

 

Mandates Must be Unconstitutional

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Imagine a day when a president could tell you that you have to buy something or become a criminal via federal law if you don’t. Imagine a day when you are not allowed to choose not to buy a certain product. In a land of true freedom and liberty worrying about the arrival of such […]

 

Brit Hasn’t a Clue About U.S. Politics

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Many elitist American leftists like to go about claiming that it is only Americans that are dunces on foreign matters. There is some truth to the accusation that Americans are not knowledgeable about the rest of the world but if a column in the UK Telegraph is any indication it isn’t much better for Britain’s […]

 

Poizner Signs Anti-Tax Pledge Despite History of Supporting Tax Hikes

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

SoCal radio wags John and Ken got California GOP gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner to sign a no tax pledge this week. This is momentous news, indeed, since Poizner, the current State Insurance Commissioner and putative GOP frontrunner, has a long, long history of supporting massive property tax hikes that he has yet to directly disavow. […]

 

Obama’s Website Quietly Drops Support of Public Option

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It looks like President Obama’s campaign site cum community organizing website, Organizing for America (OFA), has quietly dropped its claim that the “public option” is a “must” in its healthcare policies open letter to Congress. Originally the open letter told Congress that it “must” vote for the public option. The second bullet point in the […]

 

Health Insurance is Not Like Auto Insurance

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

During his healthcare speech last week, President Obama tried to compare his idea of compulsory health insurance to the practice of mandatory auto insurance now in effect in most of the States of the Union. But as a recent Fox News piece by Judson Berger proves, car insurance is nothing like forced healthcare insurance. The […]

 

Rep. Kirk Suddenly a “No” on Cap and Tax? (Update With Video)

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Rep. Mark Kirk (R, IL) has been getting hammered by conservatives and moderate Republicans alike for his “yes” vote on the Cap and Trade bill. But at a recent appearance Kirk suddenly said he now intends to vote against the disastrous bill. The Obama administration admits that the Cap and Trade legislation will cost every […]

 

Mayo Clinic Loses Millions Because of Medicare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Anchorage Daily News has a very interesting editorial that reveals that the celebrated Mayo Clinic has lost millions because of Medicare over the last year. In its editorial the ADN is warning that the public option is “as unhealthy as Medicare” because of the artificially low payments the government remits to healthcare providers, doctors […]

 

Obama Dissembles Again About His ‘Responsibility’ For Healthcare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In a new 60 Minutes interview, President Obama made a big show about telling correspondent Steve Kroft that he “owns” healthcare if it goes wrong and that because of this he has “every incentive to get this right.” But is this true? Will Obama face any real, personal consequences for any possible failures of Obamacare […]

 

California’s Mass Job Loss… Except in Government

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston A recent report by the Sacramento based California Budget Project shows that two out of five working-age Californians are out of work. The jobless rate has not been this bad since 1977. California’s unemployment rate is one of the worst in the country at 12 percent. Yet, union membership has grown […]

 

Federal Agency Fights Card Check For Its Own Employees

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As the president and Congress considers passing the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) in which the “card check” feature is still a major provision, a federal agency is trying to prevent its own employees from using the card check practice to organize. The Legal Services Corp., a congressionally chartered, taxpayer-funded entity has hired legal counsel […]

 

Revenue Neutral? Hardly!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A couple of stories have recently come out that really put the lie to President Obama’s claims that “his” healthcare bill is revenue neutral. These on top of the original plan-killing news that came out of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office in July. In July the CBO said that Obama’s plan was clocking in at […]

 

Obamacare Gives Union Leaders Gov’t Power in Healthcare Bill

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Kevin Mooney of the Washington Examiner has a piece from Sept. 2 that warns that H.R. 3200, the House healthcare bill, gives special consideration to union bosses for positions on various healthcare management boards. This means that Barack Obama is handing official government power to union bosses! Sections 123 and 2251 of H.R. 3200, the […]

 

Obama Talks Healthcare Tonight and it Doesn’t Matter

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President Obama is going to offer “his” healthcare prescriptions tonight at a special joint session of Congress. But why is he doing this now? After all, the bills are already written and most of the committees have already passed their versions out of committee. What is it that Obama will say that will make any […]