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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Go here to read Rep. Paul Ryan’s article in the Wall Street Journal on the new House Republican Budget proposal. There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that the Senate will even vote on it, but at least the lines are drawn. There is a 100% chance that Democrats will lie about it’s contents, but [...]
I just read an article by John Hayward at Human Events called, Rise of the debt interest monster. As uncle Sam borrows more and more money one thing needs to be clear to everyone: The government has no money of its own. When the government borrows money over and above what it collects in tax [...]
We must take note of this: It has been 1000 days since Democrats have produced a budget. The Senate, under the leadership of Harry Reid, has literally not even put pen to paper in 1000 days. 365 of those days the Democrats controlled both the Senate and the House. The lone budget that was passed [...]
My problem with the Super Committee is that it is unserious. What they are charged with doing is a joke, and a bad joke at that. Actually, it’s an inside joke, where Washington elites sidle up to each other and snicker about how they pulled one over on the ignorant masses. What do I mean [...]
I did it again, and I’m kicking myself. I listened to President Obama in a news clip. I’m trying to learn to reflexively mute the radio when I hear his voice, because he tends to make me crazy whenever I hear him speak. I just wasn’t quick enough. Damn. The president is on his “blame [...]
Do you suppose the markets (Dow down 512 points today, down over 700 since Tuesday; NASDAQ down 136 today, down nearly 200 points since Tuesday) are telling our politicians something? I doubt very much that what they’re saying is that they are upset there were no new taxes. I’d be willing to bet they’re saying [...]
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 [...]
I was on vacation, barely paying attention to the news, and unable to blog. But, I did track the debt ceiling debate and its resolution (as I write, the Senate has not voted). To me, this is a nothing deal. The only two victories in it are these: The idea that the budget must be [...]
Deception In Pursuit of Power
A quickie post about something I have mentioned before in other posts, but it’s so irritating that I am compelled to bring it up again. The Obama administration, in its zeal to blame everything on somebody else, refers to the 2009 budget deficit as the deficit he “inherited.” Approximately $1.3 trillion dollars. What is never [...]