Why are So Many Americans Now “Disabled”?
Interesting piece on disability in America. Millions of people have joined the rolls of the “disabled” in the last few years. This piece examines the factors influencing the rise in the number of “disabled.” Here’s one: In the past few decades, an entire disability-industrial complex has emerged. It has just one goal: Push more people [...]
Only in Obamaland Does Paying People NOT to Work = Jobs Saved
Whose job, exactly, does it save? The guy at the unemployment office? I keep thinking that sooner or later the masses of Americans are going to wake up to the bullshit that the Obama administration is shoveling, but since they’re getting checks, I guess they don’t need to. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis made her [...]
Let’s Put the Fiscal Cliff Tax Hike in Perspective, Shall We?
Spending cuts? We don’t need no stinking spending cuts. via ZeroHedge
Your Government at Work: Agriculture Department Spends $2 Million; Creates ONE Job
We hear stories like this from time to time, and wonder “how could this happen?” The USDA spends $2 million on an internship program, and creates exactly one job. Millions more is spent accomplishing nothing in particular. With government, it’s always somebody else’s money, and the people responsible for the failures are rarely held accountable. [...]
Arthur Laffer: Sorry Keynesians – Every Dollar of Stimulus Spending is One Less Dollar of Private Investment
In the Wall Street Journal, Arthur Laffer explains that the Obama administration’s stimulus spending is a drag on the economy. In the United States, and in every other country where this method of “stimulating” the economy is used, the results are miserable. It worked miserably, as indicated by the table nearby, which shows increases in [...]
Through Rose-Colored Glasses: “The Private Sector is Doing Fine” – It’s Leviathan That We Need to Grow
Can he really be that detached from reality? We’ve had 8+% unemployment for over three years, and business are reluctant to hire new workers because of the uncertainty about tax hikes and out-of-control regulatory agencies. Fear not, knuckle-draggers and little people; the Anointed One says all is well, and it’s really the GOVERNMENT that needs [...]
One More Time: Government Doesn’t Have a Revenue Problem; It Has a Spending Problem
This instructive video presentation from LearnLiberty.org has some facts to back up the statement. If we want to reign in spending, something has to change with the way we do government. I’m not sure even a change from the current regime will do it. It might lessen the rate of growth in spending, but that’s [...]
Here’s Some Irony for Ya: Government with $15.6T in Debt Running 16 “Financial Literacy Programs”
At least they’ve reduced them from the former 56 programs, but it still appears they don’t know whether they actually accomplish anything. Sounds just like government. A federal government that is $15.6 trillion in debt is currently using its “bully pulpit” to run 16 different programs to teach citizens “financial literacy,” according to the Government [...]
The “Contraception Controversy” – A Big Distraction from Obama’s Debt-Bomb Budget
Mark Steyn feels the same way as I do about Obama’s contraception “controversy”: it’ just a big “shiny object” designed to distract America’s attention from the debt cliff we’re hurtling toward. The U.S. economy shuts down in 2027? Had you heard about that? It’s like the ultimate Presidents’ Day sale: Everything must go — literally! [...]
While the Dems Gin Up the “Contraception Controversy”, The House RSC Asks a Good Question: Where Are the Jobs?
The Republican Study Committee, chaired by Jim Jordan (R-OH), has a graphic demonstration of just how much good Wile E. Obama and the ACME Economic Destruction Company have done for us since the $1.2 trillion stimulus package passed in 2009. From the RSC Press Release: Tomorrow, February 17, 2012, will be exactly 3 years since [...]
Obamanomics by the Numbers
Yes, I know: spending under George Bush was too high, too. But it wasn’t anything like this. (from Fox Nation) OBAMANOMICS BY THE NUMBERS: Every day, the U.S. government takes in $6 billion and spends $10 billion. This means that every day the federal government spends $4 billion more dollars than it has. The real [...]
An Ode to the Welfare State: Not Much Has Changed Since 1949, Except the Size of the Debt
Via Doug Ross @Journal:
Ron Paul: The Keynesian Economic Model is a Failure
Ron Paul tells David Gregory how he’d fix our current economic problems: decrease the role of government with draconian cuts. “What we’re witnessing today is the failure of a Keynesian economic model,” Paul said. “And today we have to replace it with something — we either replace it with more government, more authoritarianism, more controls, [...]
Imagine the NFL, Run By Teachers’ Union Rules…
Fran Tarkenton played in the NFL for 17 seasons with the Minnesota Vikings and New York Giants. He led the Vikes to four Super Bowl appearances, so he knows a thing or two about how incentives and performance affect outcomes and salaries, and successes. In today’s Wall Street Journal, he gives an excellent illustration of [...]
Author of TSA Legislation: “The Whole Thing is a Complete Fiasco.”
That’s a quote from John Mica (R-FL), chairman of the House Transportation Committee. The number of workers, and the budget for TSA has mushroomed to $9 billion a year, and -10 years on from 9/11- they haven’t stopped one verifiable threat. Everything they’ve done, from removing shoes to patting down old people’s diapers to restricting [...]
I Would Normally Wail on Krugman for His Latest NYT Whinefest…
But Smitty over at The Other McCain has already done it for me. Sitting There Feeling Useless sits Paul Krugman, unable to grasp that the American people aren’t buying his swill. ” (Krugman’s quote) The worst thing you can do in these circumstances is slash government spending, since that will depress the economy even further.” Can you not grasp [...]
Beltway Confidential on the Debt Deal: On Policy, Obama Wins by Doing Nothing – If…
…he gets reelected. Here’s an interested perspective on the deal that was just cut on the debt ceiling, from Conn Carroll: But if you look just a little bit down the road, Obama has set himself up for some huge policy victories as long as he wins reelection. Consider: If Congress does nothing, taxes go [...]
Harry Reid: Cut, Cap and Balance is “Weak and Senseless” – American People Support it 2-1
The Senate is probably going to have a vote today on the Cut, Cap and Balance legislation put together in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. Via Roll Call, here’s what Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has to say about it: “I think this piece of legislation is about as weak and senseless as anything that [...]
Two Trillion in Budget Cuts Sounds Like a Lot, But…
…when you look beneath the surface, like the Cato Institute has, um – it’s not so much. In fact, it does a pretty good job of maintaining the government spending status quo.
Economic Freedom & Quality of Life
This doesn’t need much commentary. The end is especially important, because it describes what’s happening to our ranking amongst free countries in the world. If you want to reverse that decline, the current administration has to go in 2012.
Herman Cain on Securing the Border and Reviving Our Dismal Economy
Herman Cain gives his plan for securing the border and dealing with the illegal immigration problem. It’s pretty sensible: Secure the border with technology and GUNS. If that means 6000 armed agents on the border, then that’s what we should do. Obama (*DfOaLG) made the nonsense statement in his speech yesterday that “the border fence [...]
Government Intervention in Economic Downturns…Makes Things Worse
Every time government intervenes in an economic downturn, the downturn (or recession) gets longer, and deeper. History has borne this out, yet politicians can’t resist the impulse to “do something” when recession comes. Left to its own devices, the economy will recover much more quickly than if we tinker with monetary policy or inject massive [...]
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