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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One of President Obama’s themes is, when talking about the economy, to say, “We tried it the old way, and it didn’t work. We need to do something different” (or some version thereof). He’s never really clear on what “that way” or “the old way” or whatever phrasing he’s using is. He’s also not really [...]
Why don’t teams playing in the Super Bowl grab the Lombardi trophy and start celebrating before the game? Because you have to earn it first. That’s the way it is with the goodies in life. The government needs to understand this simple precept. People who want more government spending need to understand it. The government [...]
I have to admit, I didn’t listen to the SOTU last night. To be honest, I can’t stand to hear Obama speak. His cadences drive me crazy and his content is so divorced from reality that I just get angry. However, I read recaps and printed excerpts. Again, the man talked about some nebulous concept [...]
You have to read this post by John Hayward at Human Events: How Obamacare Cheats the Poor. Just to sum it up quickly so I can make my point before you read John’s full article: Obamacare mandates that if one person in a family has individual insurance (companies are mandated to provide individual insurance or [...]
I’ve been reading a lot lately on the crash of 2008, as well as about the current conversation about the state of our economy. From the left I hear about eeeevile! corporations. From the right I hear about capitalism and the wonders that can be provided by it. Frankly, this blog is dedicated to the [...]
To me, the following sentence is a beautiful encapsulation of government at work: “But administration officials argue that the act would provide additional funding for the Federal Highway Administration, and some of that money could be used to speed up environmental and other approvals.” The administration is arguing to provide funding via Obama’s new “jobs [...]
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 [...]
Good article today at Q&O blog by Bruce McQuain: The growth of the regulatory state. Well worth reading. In the past three years of the Obama administration we’ve seen an explosion of regulations. Investors Business Daily brings you the gory details: Regulatory agencies have seen their combined budgets grow a healthy 16% since 2008, topping [...]
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 [...]