How can anyone still believe in Obamanomics? The only answer I can come up with is a complete lack of understanding of economics. The only other thing I could speculate about is an irrational belief in big government as a solution. I say irrational because we have much more evidence for bigfoot and UFOs than [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Ed Morrissey at Hot Air alerts us to this bit of brilliance by the Obama administration’s regulatory regime (quoting from Investor’s Business Daily): ExxonMobil, and its Norwegian partner Statoil made the biggest discovery of all — a field worth a billion barrels of oil — 7,000 feet below sea level in its “Julia” field in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We Need Our Free Market Capitalism Back!
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 [...]