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 [...]
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This is from a progressive named Brad DeLong: You Know, I Arrived in Washington in 1993 to Work for Lloyd Bentsen’s Treasury as Part of the Sane Technocratic Bipartisan Center… And it took me only two months–two months!–to conclude that America’s best hope for sane technocratic governance required the elimination of the Republican Party from [...]
How exciting! President Obama is going to reveal a big jobs program in the coming weeks. Nancy Pelosi probably thinks that means more of those great job creating unemployment payments. The sad thing is, I’m guessing ol’ Nance isn’t far off. Here’s what I will bet will not be in the plan, despite that fact [...]
The following are Democrat/progressive policies. The Dems and progressives claim to be the guardians of the poor and middle classes. Let’s see… Preventing Energy Production: This raises gasoline and electricity prices. Who can least afford higher gasoline and electricity prices, the poor and middle class, or the rich? It also results in higher prices for [...]
Everyone must read this column by John Hayward: Empire of Debt. Here’s just one section I loved: Debt is not universally interpreted as a sign of failure on the part of government planners. On the contrary, it becomes a weapon used to demand more taxes. The same politicians who spent $1.7 trillion more than they [...]
I’m reading The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture by David Mamet. This is my favorite line so far: “We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed through the production of goods and services necessary or attractive to [...]
From Hot Air’s “Obamateurism of the Day”: Barack Obama used his Saturday speech to offer a mantra that he has been chanting a lot lately as an excuse for Obamanomics, which our friend and occasional Green Room contributor Dafydd ab Hugh caught: “Of course, there’s been a real debate about where to invest and where [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
You Have to Earn it First
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 [...]