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 [...]
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John Hayward (the artist formerly known as Doc Zero) hits on something that I’ve always found interesting but had never summed up the way he does in this post at Human Events: The Fifty State Solution. What I’ve always noticed is that Obama’s rhetoric to foreigners is completely at odds with his domestic policy. While [...]
Please read this. Paul Ryan sums up the differences between the Progressive elite view, which he calls “shared scarcity” and the Free Market Capitalist view beautifully. I loved his quote from Jack Kemp: “We can’t progress as a society by using government to diminish one another. The only way we can all have more is [...]
Related to the post below… President Obama has asked businesses to start hiring. In his mind, hiring is just something you do by whim. You don’t have to ask if hiring the employee pays off at the bottom line, or whether those new employees will tip profit to loss and cause the entire business to [...]
Hopefully you’ve been keeping track of the National Labor Relations Board’s lawsuit against Boeing. To sum up, Boeing decided to build its newest airliner in South Carolina after they weren’t able to make an agreement with the Machinist’s Union in Washington state not to strike. You see, Boeing figures to have high demand for these [...]
You know what scares me? When a politician says they want to create jobs. Now, if a politician (like Paul Ryan) says something like, “We want to create an environment where the private sector can create jobs” I’m happy as a clam. I haven’t posted on this subject in a while, but my biggest pet [...]
Obama and the Democrats are always talking about the Middle Class. How government needs to help them. How Republicans want to hurt them. I thought what defined being a hard-working, independent middle class American was… well, being hard working and independent. No no no. Apparently it means being beholden to the government and particularly the [...]
John Hinderacker does a masterful job of commenting on Pres. Obama’s incredibly bad budget speech in his Power Line post: “Obama Channels Ted Kennedy” (the Kennedy reference is a comparison of Obama’s characterization of Ryan’s plan with Kennedy’s demagoguery of Clarence Thomas). There’s one thing John didn’t comment on that got my attention. In talking [...]
Capitalism is often referred to as competition. It is competitive, but it’s much more than that. First, let me make a philosophical point about competition. I’m a coach (granted at the level of kid sports). I’m also a former athlete. One of the things I try to get my kids to understand is something I [...]
Transforming Reality to Match the Model
If you’re a fan of Thomas Sowell like I am, you’ve no doubt read his debunking of the “class” model expressed in quintiles of earners. What Dr. Sowell exposed is that Democrats speak of the various classes (poor, middle, and rich) as though they are fixed, containing the same people year in and year out, [...]