Category: The Economy

Verdict for America: Solutions for our Most Pressing Problems

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Bill Ponath, an attorney and long-time pro tem judge, has written the definitive up-to-date and eye-opening book on the most critical issues facing the U.S. Written so anyone will understand, but not so basic as to bore the experienced politico, he analyzes eight issues thoroughly and recommends insightful common sense solutions. At one point the […]

 

“progressives” Revise History…Again

Posted on by Michael Fell

Thanks to the energy of the Tea Party, the 2010 midterm elections established a mandate for reducing the size and scope of government by way of spending cuts. Evidence of this mandate is readily found in the record number of anti big government Republicans who replaced “progressive” Democrats in the House of Representatives. It’s also […]

 

Return To Free Market Principles

Posted on by Michael Fell

If we’re to form conclusions based on the behavior of our elected officials, the United States government being over $15 trillion in debt is a minor concern. It looks like figuring out how to cut spending is simply too adult a puzzle for ”progressives” in the Senate and the White House. What else can the […]

 

The “Super Committee” Shows What’s Wrong With America’s Government

Posted on by Michael Fell

Per The Hill online: Friday, November 18, 2011 “In a closed-door briefing Tuesday, Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), the Republican co-chairman of the panel, said divisions among Democrats are standing in the way of an agreement. He told his colleagues the GOP had put multiple offers on the table that Democrats had yet to accept. Boehner […]

 

Yet More “progressive” Insanity

Posted on by Michael Fell

A quick review of the headlines for November 16, 2011 reveals that there’s yet more “progressive” insanity afoot. DEBT JUMPS TO $15 TRILLION… As other cities crack down, DC Council backs ‘Occupiers’… Occupy protesters plan to ‘shut down’ Wall Street on Thursday… ‘You’re going to see what a Molotov cocktail can do to MACY’S’… Protester […]

 

Why-Not Ron Paul

Posted on by Michael Fell

Greetings: from Los Angeles County.:  That’s Los Angeles CA,: the State who’s Repubican Party gave the world President Ronald Reagan. President Reagan was a great leader who built a winning coalition on fiscal responsibility, traditional American moral values and peace through strength. President Reagan’s policies created years of robust economic growth in America while leading to the […]

 

An Open Letter To “progressive” Politicians

Posted on by Michael Fell

Families in America must live within their means, and it’s time for the United States federal government to do the same. Don’t tell me it can’t be done. Since I lost my last full time job back in 2008, I’ve been able to make ends meet with less than half my previous income while simultaneously […]

 

Occupy Wall Street College Grads Should Sue Their Schools

Posted on by Michael Fell

What’s most puzzling about Occupy Wall Street is: a persistent resistance by recent college graduates to acknowledging the cause and effect phenomenon manifested by big government interference in business. When you employ the economic policies of Woodrow Wilson, FDR and Jimmy Carter you’re going to get a lousy economy because you’ve created a climate that’s unfriendly […]

 

Blame Corporations?

Posted on by Michael Fell

Would you hire people purely out of national loyalty knowing that doing so meant your company would eventually become fiscally insolvent? Corporations, like any business, are in business to make profits. Jobs are the byproduct of profits, not the other way around. Until U.S. corporate tax rates are cut to globally competetive levels, the corporations […]

 

Live Tweeting Obama’s Jobs Speech: More Big Government Boondoggles

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As I often do, I live Tweeted Obama’s address to the joint session of congress, but for sure this speech was little else but yet another plea from Obama for giant piles of government money to be thrown around in a bacchanalia of Keynesian spending. He may not have used the newly verboten word “stimulus,” […]

 

Government Destroying Free Markets With Public-Private Partnerships

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

We are hearing more and more lately about Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) as the ideal way to administer the areas of healthcare, transportation, public buildings, water and the environment. President Obama and other politicians are proudly announcing the launch of new partnerships with the private sector. What are PPPs? They are contracts between government and private […]

 

Obama Blames Job Loss on Technology, Internet and Efficiency

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

During his Midwest Misery Tour, President Obama was back to blaming technology, the Internet, and ATMs again for America’s job loss. At a stop in Atkinson, Illinois Obama spoke about the need for education at an agricultural company named Wyffels Hybrids, Inc. He said that America is no longer a place where you can just […]

 

CNN/Krugman: A Space Alien Attack Will Save Us (Disses FDR, Wants a Fake War?)

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

CNNs Fareed Zakaria and The New York Times’ Paul Krugman have solved our economic problems. They’ve decided that a space alien attack will save us. Aside from the guffaw factor of space aliens, there was so much wrong with this CNN segment that we must lay them out for discussion. First on the clip is […]

 

Unions: On the Outside Looking In At Political Power?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Since Obama began his run for the White House he has been Big Labor’s best friend. And they loved him for it, too. As Obama ran and as soon as he got into office the unions had stars in their eyes. They thought that with a bought and paid for president in their hip pocket, […]

 

The Union Job Security Act Equals Endless Road Construction

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Have you noticed how there is more road construction than usual lately, which never seems to end? In some states it has gotten so bad their departments of transportation have set up road closure email alerts on each highway. This is a direct result of President Obama’s stimulus spending. Last summer, Obama proposed spending $50 […]

 

Even Politico Wonders Where All Obama’s “Green” Jobs Are

Posted on by William Teach

It’s great that ThePolitico’s Darren Samualsohn is asking questions about Obama’s green jobs agenda, but, he forgot to ask a few others, such as “how many jobs did the green agenda cost?” We learned from Spain that for ever one created, two private sector jobs are lost. Also, how much do the ones actually created […]

 

Snap! The Hill Says Obama And The Democrats Job Creation Policies Rock!

Posted on by William Teach

Vicki Needham is working hard to provide cover for the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats, who just got whacked during the 2010 mid-term Job creation is happening at a faster rate than during previous recessions, more good news for the White House and congressional Democrats who have spent the past two years defending their policies […]

 

‘Snowfalls Are Now Just a Thing of the Past’

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

That was a headline that ran in England’s Independent newspaper in 2000; this year, snow has been so heavy in England that it’s closed their major airports for long stretches. In early 2010, Time magazine, responding to resurgent snow in America’s capital would take the exact opposite stance: “DC Snowstorm: How Global Warming Makes Blizzards Worse.”

Is there nothing that global warming can’t do

 

Illinois to the Elderly: Retire Somewhere Else, Will Ya? Top Ten Worst States to Retire To

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Guess which state is the single worst state to try and retire in? Yup. Illinois. TopRetirements.com, a site that tracks the best values for retirees, recently posted its top ten worst states to retire to and Barack Obama’s home state of Illinois tops the list of the worst. California comes up a close second worst. […]

 

UN Climate Summit: The Con in Cancun

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In but a few hours I’ll be headed to Chicago’s O’Hare airport to wing my way to sunny Cancun to do a few days reporting on the U.N. Climate Change Summit. As is my luck in life, sunny Cancun will be rainy Cancun if the weatherman is to be believed. Of course, weather reports aren’t […]

 

US Government “Crapped Away” $125 BILLION in 2010 Via Improper Payments

Posted on by Jeff Dunetz

Many people scoff when a candidate proposes cutting fraud and waste as an element of trimming the Federal budget, but here is a perfect example of how cutting fraud and waste will actually make a dent. It is also an example of how the government still doesn’t get it. During the fiscal year just ended,:  […]

 

The Fed’s $600 Billion Dollar Plan For Economic Suicide

Posted on by Jeff Dunetz

Its called quantitative easing, which is just banker talk for devaluing the a currency. Today the Fed is about to work some “black magic.” They are going to create $600 billion dollars out of nothing. It absolutely no different than a corporation vowing to improve its fiscal performance simply by printing a lot of new […]

 

Will The Treasury Dept. Turn the U.S. Into A New Weinmar Republic?

Posted on by Jeff Dunetz

Germany in the 1920’s did not “invent” Hyperinflation, they just made it famous. Hyperinflation was first systematically:  documented in Germany. The currency on the left is a relic:  from the Weinmar Republic. It was originally:  a 1,000 Mark currency note, but:  because of inflation, it was re-stamped to make it 1,000,000 Marks. You see:  inflation […]

 

Restrained No More’s — Big $pender-Like a Kid in a Candy Store

Posted on by Sharise Parviz

We all know who the Big $$pender is … Here’s a little tune to sing on the way to the polls. Just make sure you take your billy clubs (oops! Sorry, wrong audience.) I mean your boas ;) For other episodes of the show, a “backstage pass” and to download songs go to – http://www.restrainednomore.com/

 

Dressing Like A WWII German Soldier on Weekends Proves How Rich We Are

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

First of all, despite all the chest puffing by sports-freaks and rock-music geeks who want to say that Civil War and WWII reenactors are “weird,” the very fact that there are such things as reenactors at all — not to mention sports nuts or music fanatics — is proof that westerners are well off, rich […]

 

They Don’t Know Their History at All–This is Elitism Straight Up

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

To understand the frustration of legacy media journalists such as New York Timeso racialist Kate Zernike over the strength of the Tea Parties and the resurgence of Friedrich Hayek and other past voices from the right, let’s paraphrase Janene Garofalo’s infamous rant last year on MSNBC. It’s not about bashing Republicans, it’s not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don’t know their history at all. This is about hating conservatives in America. This is elitism straight up

 

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 […]