Which side of sequestration are you on?
February 22nd, 2013 | No Comments
More of the hopey-changy stuff: Which side of sequestration are you on? Public OpinionPoll Results
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That hopey changey thing, debt ceiling edition
January 18th, 2013 | No Comments
Once again, I can agree with President Obama on something: “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from [...]
High math from a UGA professor.
December 18th, 2012 | No Comments
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay $1. The sixth would pay $3. [...]
Forbes Takers vs Makers
November 29th, 2012 | No Comments
Forbes Magazine just ran a rather awesome, if not damning, article. I loved it. It listed the states where there are more “takers” vs “makers”. And, it very quickly condemned those states, as well as advising anyone investing to steer clear of those states. One of them, being my own. They chide those states for [...]
Obama and the Global Competitiveness Index
September 5th, 2012 | No Comments
More change you can believe in: The USA has not only not remained the #1 competitive economy on Earth under Obama, it’s dropped every single year he’s been in office. The reasons they cite are policies. Combative regulations, taxation, uncertainty. Those aren’t issues he inherited from Bush. Those are decisions he’s made. The world’s largest [...]
Bankruptcies and Obama
September 4th, 2012 | No Comments
Gotta ask yourself, are you better off now than four years ago? To be more specific: Year Bankruptcies 1990 782,960 1991 943,987 1992 971,517 1993 875,202 1994 832,829 1995 926,601 1996 1,178,555 1997 1,404,145 1998 1,442,549 1999 1,319,465 2000 1,263,444 2001 1,492,129 2002 1,577,651 2003 1,660,245 2004 1,597,462 2005 2,078,415 2006 617,660 2007 850,912 [...]
The French hearts socialism
May 8th, 2012 | No Comments
In light of the economies of several very socialist countries in Europe collapsing in rather embarrassing flames. And in light of several other, much larger countries being on the brink, France decided they didn’t like the austerity measures being imposed by their President, Nicolas Sarkozy, and voted him out. Replacing him with an avowed socialist, [...]
Geithner: Obama Wouldn’t Ask Me to Stay in a Second Term
January 25th, 2012 | No Comments
That’s the headline. That’s pretty much the meat of the story. Timothy Geithner thinks Obama won’t re-appoint him. I think he’s giving Obama too much credit. I don’t think Obama could care less whether he stays or goes. The position is moot under Obama. Obama has one economic philosophy, tax the rich and give it [...]
President Obama goes after greedy university administrators
October 27th, 2011 | No Comments
Yeah! Tell me another one! Whew. OK. Let’s get serious. Obama, as usual, is attacking the concept of personal responsibility. The concept that people willingly and knowingly incurred a debt is meaningless to Obama. Completely. Under his watch, the student loan program has been removed from the private sector and made federal ( that’s called [...]
