Time to dust off the ol’ keyboard and write a post. I’ve been busy… working, oddly enough in this economy. Actually, I am helping a friend remodel a house (he’s a contractor and had to fire his workers for drinking on the job, leaving him in a tough position after getting his bid accepted to [...]
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I read this today at Hot Air (HT: Allahpundit) from Matt Stoller at Salon: The Democratic Party should be the party of pay raises and homes, but under Obama it has become the party of pay cuts and foreclosures. The part I want to address is the “should be the party of pay raises and [...]
Yesterday I read a quote from Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (congresswoman and DNC Chair) in which she was critical of House Republicans, saying “…they haven’t produced one jobs bill.” By “jobs bill” I’m certain that she meant some sort of spending measure that would have the same impact of the (now part of the baseline) “stimulus”. So [...]
Once again I was listening to President Obama’s Saturday radio address and I had to turn off the radio. You know, when he was elected I was disappointed, but the one thing I thought might be nice is that he seemed to be a good speaker, so I figured listening to his speeches would be [...]
There is a longstanding meme that the Republicans are the party of big business, that we are somehow in the pocket of big business. Wall Street runs our politicians. We do anything to support the rich and powerful. This is hogwash. Wall Street gave more money to Obama than they did to McCain. GE is [...]
Just sit back and enjoy this: Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) simply tells it like it is.
Yipee! The government is going to create manufacturing jobs by giving researchers $500 million dollars. “Today, I’m calling for all of us to come together… to spark a renaissance in American manufacturing and help our manufacturers develop the cutting-edge tools they need to compete with anyone in the world,” Obama said in a written statement. [...]
People have commented on President Obama’s statement about ATMs and other automation displacing workers (a falsehood, as the number of banks and bank tellers has grown since the introduction of ATMs in the ’70s). What disturbs me about this is different than what most are saying about it (see this at Hot Air, and this [...]
I pilfered this ReasonTV video from Bruce McQuain at Q&O blog. This is something I’ve been advocating for a while now. Private sector companies with all of the incentives that come with the private sector model are simply more efficient and productive than the public sector. If one simply thinks about incentives, it is intuitively [...]
The Contribution Businesses Make
One of the things that changed my life, and my view of capitalism, was something my father did when I worked for his company. At that time I was still under the sway of my college training and relentless demonization of “corporations” in the media and by Democrats in particular. It seemed the bad guys [...]