Act now!

We’ve all seen the infomercials. The hucksters claiming that their extra special product “won’t last” or that their “supplies are limited” They tell us that their offer is only available “for a limited time” and as an extra incentive to get us to open our wallets, tell us that the “first 100 callers” get [...]

Indefensible.

Nobody home.

There’s a great fix for all of our economic woes. It’s called the free market. People who make bad choices in a free market are penalized. People who make good choices are rewarded. If we allow the free market to take precedence with as little government interference as possible, and every player knows this up [...]

Cut to the chase.

Here’s a sober, intellectual pantsing of the spending bill. Print it out and discuss it with your families tonight at dinner. Or at your play-date tomorrow. Or after church on Sunday. Whatever you do with it, make sure you understand it. If it was such a slam dunk, it would have been passed by now. [...]

Greeks bearing pork.

So you may have heard. President Obama published an op-ed in today’s Washington Post pleading with the American public to take Porkenstein to its collective breast and squeeze it ever so tenderly.
So we have a choice to make. We can once again let Washington’s bad habits stand in the way of progress. Or we can [...]

Porkenstein.

Print this out and carry it around with you all day. Then wave it in the face of anyone trying to claim that the Obama Spending Bill is anything other than a Liberal Christmas list to Santa.
Enjoy.
*    $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
$380 million in the Senate bill for the Women, Infants [...]

Whole lotta nothin’.

Here’s a nice little rundown of some goodies that the Democrats are trying to cram down our throats under the guise of “economic emergency”. Recall that all of this money is supposed to create jobs and stimulate economic growth. Some of these are real howlers.
There’s $1 billion for Amtrak, the federal railroad that hasn’t turned [...]

Rush’s bipartisan solution.

From today’s Wall Street Journal, Rush Limbaugh offers some insight on how to navigate these recessionary waters:
There’s a serious debate in this country as to how best to end the recession. The average recession will last five to 11 months; the average recovery will last six years. Recessions will end on their own if they’re [...]

Sleight of hand.

Thomas Sowell has an inkling that the Democrats aren’t serious about stimulating the economy and wants to tell you about it.

Even if it had worked, putting cash into banks, in hopes that they would put it into circulation, seems a rather roundabout way of doing things, especially when the staggering sums of money involved are [...]

We’re going wrong.

Isn’t Cream great? Has there been anything that Eric Clapton’s touched that hasn’t turned to gold?
In any event:
President Obama was a teenager when some of the smartest liberals in America (dubbed the neoconservatives) were beginning to have doubts about the power of government to do good. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, Nathan Glazer, [...]

Psst . . . pass it on.

A Republican Congressman from Illinois named Mark Kirk, who is a member of the House Appropriations Committee, has drafted the following letter directed at his colleagues on the Committee advising them of the ill-effects of voting for the stimulus.
I thought you’d like to see it too. Forward it to all your friends.
Note that the “bold” [...]

Hurry up and slow down.

According to Congressional Budget Office estimates, a mere $26 billion of the House stimulus bill’s $355 billion in new spending would actually be spent in the current fiscal year, and just $110 billion would be spent by the end of 2010. This is highly embarrassing given that Congress’s justification for passing this bill so urgently [...]

Relax, the economy isn’t that bad.

At least not judging by the urgency (or lack thereof) with which the Democrats plan to spend all your tax dollars.
Consider:
[L]ess than 40 percent of the discretionary spending in the stimulus bill would be used in the first 18 months. Obama’s aides once stressed the importance of spending the bulk of the money before 2011. [...]

Lee, Lifeson & Peart.

Rush.
If you hate him, it’s because you understand his power. If you love him I don’t have to tell you why.
Here’s the latest from Logobama:

WASHINGTON — President Obama warned Republicans on Capitol Hill today that they need to quit listening to radio king Rush Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats and the [...]

Obama’s new politics of the echo chamber.

As Obama said at the inauguration, we’re about to be governed by the One, not the many. Say goodbye to petty grievances…despite the fact that our nation was founded under the precept that all of our grievances matter and are entitled to voice. Why bother electing all those congressmen and senators from all those “petty” [...]

Level with me, Sporto.

BEDFORD HEIGHTS, Ohio (Reuters) – Just days before his inauguration, President-elect Barack Obama on Friday warned Americans to expect even rougher economic times and said his plan to revive the struggling economy would take time to work.
“Recovery is not going to happen overnight,” he told workers at a factory in Ohio that makes parts for [...]

Bad deal.

The worst mistake of the New Deal was keeping wages and prices artificially high, thus suppressing employment and consumer demand. UCLA economists Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian calculate that FDR’s pro-labor policies kept both wages and unemployment 25 percent above what they would have been otherwise. (The old saw was that the Depression [...]

Daniel Gross of Newsweek: Pwned

This is actually kinda funny. It’s a response by a “serious  professional historian” to a hack journalist who claimed in Newsweek that NO serious professional historians believed that FDR prolonged the Great Depression with his New Deal policies.
Off the top of my head, I can name “several serious professional historians” who would probably argue (and [...]

Are you smarter than a 5th grader?

Tax 1,000 people less, and those 1,000 will take home more money. They’ll spend that money. Save that money. Invest that money.
Tax 25,000,000 people less and…well…you get the picture.
Tax those same people MORE, and there will be LESS money to be spent…saved…invested…so naturally, less money will actually be spent, saved and invested.
In an optimum economy, [...]