Keep your eye on the ball.

Ever get the feeling that Democrats can’t possibly be this stupid? To increase deficits to unmanageable levels on purpose under the guise of ‘fixing’ the economy? To cram health care ‘reform’ legislation through congress without even bothering to understand what it means let alone whether it will actually reform anything or make things infinitely worse? [...]

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 [...]

Our fragile Left.

Enough with the breast beating and gnashing of teeth, already. The left is not opposed to waterboarding. They’re opposed to Bush, who was pro-waterboarding (thank God). They’re anti-waterboarding now so that the possibility of his being denigrated for it may linger. Hell, they’d be anti-toothpaste, anti-meatloaf and anti-Levi’s now if the Left thought they could [...]

What is a Republican?

Does Specter matter? Whether he calls himself a Democrat or a Republican won’t change how he votes. If you’ve forgotten, he voted FOR the stimulus package, so what kind of Republican is he? The answer, unfortunately is that he’s the type of Republican that’s really not much different than a Democrat anyway, so what’s the [...]

Why is this so hard?

OK.
Imagine you own a business. Your object of course is to produce lots of quality stuff that people want to buy at prices that will permit you to make a profit. This profit will permit you to keep making these things, and keep selling them to people who want to buy them. If you were [...]

Did you know your taxes are helping Harry Reid get re-elected?

In Burton Folsom’s book, New Deal or Raw Deal?, he describes in great detail how during the Depression, FDR increased government “relief” spending in election years, especially in so-called “swing states” which offered him the greatest return on his “investment”. Left to suffer were heavily Democratic states which were always assured in November, but which [...]

“The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.”

Here’s Ronald Reagan speaking at the RNC in 1964. The target of his wrath at the time was LBJ’s “Great Society”, but it’s essentially the same enemy we’re battling today. Vast, sprawling, government. His comments on Social Security, welfare, freedom and individualism are timeless and so crucially relevant today.

“The trouble with [...]

Brave new world.

Of course we all realize by now that it’s in Obama’s best interests to have the economy sink as low as possible because it will permit him to unleash even more of his radical ideas under cover of “EMERGENCY ACTION!”…and we all know that the government must ACT and act BOLDLY in an emergency, right?
This [...]

A National Crisis?

What do you make of the fact that 50% of all home foreclosures last year happened in only 35 United States counties clustered in about 7 States?
 
Does it make you wonder whether this is a National Crisis or not?
It sure makes me feel that way.
Eventually, the responsible people of this country are going to learn [...]

Go to the mattresses.

From David Harsanyi today:
[L]et’s, for the sake of argument, concede that presidents trigger recessions. Well, then, we also must concede that nearly every initiative enacted in the first 50 days by the Obama administration has exacerbated what Bush started.
Isn’t it too early to judge? It would be if Obama had not accelerated the timeline with [...]

Which little piggy went to market?

Fascinating analysis.
Ever hear of Intrade.com? If not, you should go check it out. It’s a “prediction market” site that permits you to buy and sell shares of whether an event is likely to happen. For example, there is a “bet” you can make right now on the site on whether a Democratic candidate will win [...]

Stay the Course?

Obama urges us to remain calm.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama expressed confidence on Tuesday that his economic reforms would work and said U.S. stocks were potentially a good buy even as he forecast a long road to economic recovery.
“I’m absolutely confident that credit is going to be flowing again, that businesses are going [...]

What’s a thing worth?

Whatever price the market will bear.
The rest is all fluff.
So why not let the housing market find it’s own solution? We’ve got lots of people apparently struggling to make payments on houses that are no longer worth as much as the outstanding loans. While this may be a sad case for the individuals involved, it’s [...]

We’re all children now.

It’s obvious what’s happening. The question is why. It’s clear that this glib, self-important aristocrat from the South side of Honolulu by way of private schools in Indonesia named Obama thinks that America works better for him as a Socialized welfare state despite all evidence suggesting it works better for ITSELF as a free market [...]

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 [...]

Whatever you say, dude.

What a shyster, this Obama is, huh? He ran a campaign promising vague “change” that we should “hope” for (or was it ”hope” we could ”believe” in? ”Belief” we should ”change” for? I get confused) with nary a plan of any specificity whatsoever. Now he’s chiding us for having unrealistic expectations. Well, by “us” I mean the people who voted [...]

Sickening

Senate hastens our demise.
The bill passed the House 246 to 183 and, in a vote held open for several hours, the Senate 60 to 38, both largely along party lines. President Obama is expected to sign it into law early next week.
The legislation represents the start of a new ideological era that places the federal government at the [...]

Pot, meet kettle.

Michelle Obama’s comments from July, 2008 on President Bush’s rebate checks:
PONTIAC, Mich — In response to a question about the economic stimulus checks administered by the U.S. government earlier this year, Michelle Obama said her husband believes that short-term fixes don’t solve economic problems.
“You’re getting $600,” she told an audience of mostly African-American women here. [...]

No confidence.

No nuance at all to the financial sector’s reaction to the passing of the bailout:
Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) – U.S. stocks fell, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to its biggest drop since Barack Obama’s inauguration, while Treasuries rallied on skepticism that the government’s bank rescue will work. The dollar and gold rose.
Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc. slipped [...]

Reap what you sow, Democrats.

From the latest Rasmussen:
Are Republicans winning the public relations battle over spending in the $800-billion-plus economic stimuluspackage? Democrats and Republicans are nearly even in this week’s edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone surveys found that the Democrats’ lead is down to just one percentage point. Forty percent (40%) of voters said [...]

Assume the position.

The Senate passed the nearly $900billion spending bill masquerading as a “stimulus package” today 61-37. Every Democrat voted for it, and all but 3 Republicans voted against it:
Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
Susan Collins (R-ME)
Arlen Specter (R-PA)
Counting the bill (in modified form) that passed the House 2 weeks ago, that’s a grand total of THREE Republicans  (out of [...]

Obama-con.

Thoughts from yesterday’s Obama press conference:
Companies that have sustained this community for years are shedding jobs at an alarming speed, and the people who’ve lost them have no idea what to do or who to turn to. They can’t pay their bills and they’ve stopped spending money. And because they’ve stopped spending money, more businesses [...]

First do no harm.

Via Gateway Pundit:
The Congressional Budget Office predicted that the current economic recession will end in the second half of 2009 without the trillion dollar stimulus.
From The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2009 to 2019 (pdf):
CBO anticipates that the current recession, which started in December 2007, will last until the second half of 2009, making [...]

Wouldn’t surprise me.

Take it for what it’s worth, but a caller to a radio station (I believe it’s the Michael Savage show), breaks down what he thinks the spending package is all about.
Listen for yourself.
Here’s a transcript of the relevant part.
Listen to the whole thing and tell me you aren’t chilled.

Too much government.

Politicizing the economy. Who’da thunk it?

CONTRARY TO A VIEW POPULARIZED DURING THE 2008 presidential election season, the current economic crisis was not the result of deregulation.
The Bush administration made many mistakes, but deregulation was not one of them.
Not only was there no major deregulation passed during the past eight years, but the Bush administration and a [...]