“It is disgraceful that President Obama’s campaign has launched his re-election with the stated goal to ‘kill’ his opponent with an onslaught of negative and personal attacks,” Romney said in a statement. From Romney Irked By Democrats’ Prepared Attacks No fair, he is fighting back! Googling “romney attacks obama” returns 57k hits. “obama attacks romney”… Continue reading Romney Irked By Democrats’ Prepared Attacks
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Adventures in tea-party cognitive dissonance
If we decided to build a couple of new carriers, thousands of workers would be hired for the shipyards. Thousands of employees would be hired for the steel mills that would provide the steel for the hull and various sub contractors would hire thousands. Do you know what that means? It means they would receive paychecks and… Continue reading Adventures in tea-party cognitive dissonance
Life in the Liquidity Trap
The Wall Street Journal is now admitting that we are in a liquidity trap. This is something the Keynesian have been saying for the past two and a half years. At that same time; the Journal Op-Ed pages have been warning about inflation and interest rates while hyping gold.
When do the Job Creators arrive?
Government was cut without raising taxes. Taxes are at a 50 year low. The size of local and state governments are rapidly dropping. Enforcement of regulations is reaching a record low. Regulatory costs are near a 50 year low. This is just about everything the GOP has wanted for 30 years now. So when do… Continue reading When do the Job Creators arrive?
Putin says U.S. is parasite on global economy
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States Monday of living beyond its means “like a parasite” on the global economy and said dollar dominance was a threat to the financial markets. From Putin says U.S. is parasite on global economy | Reuters Putin is an awful proto-despot that is holding back both political… Continue reading Putin says U.S. is parasite on global economy
Medicaid Spending In New York State
If you have a program that delivers services, and the expense of providing the services seems disproportionate to the benefits, and if the reason the expense seems disproportionate is something that unionized public workers have gotten out of the political process, then it’s easy to get conservatives hopping mad about it. But if you have… Continue reading Medicaid Spending In New York State
Supercongress
Anyone else notice the idiocy of attacking the alleged problem of government being too big, too wasteful and too out of touch by creating a new layer of government that doesn’t answer directly to the people, would introduce a whole new arena of horse trading and doesn’t actually have any authority under the constitution to… Continue reading Supercongress
How to end GOP economic hostage taking
Obama should announce that there will be no new drilling permits issued until the house passes an energy bill that works to reduce US consumption of foreign oil. This could be done without congress and will have the oil companies put pressure on the house to pass some watered down bill. The president should then… Continue reading How to end GOP economic hostage taking
GOP101
The overall governing strategy for the GOP from the mid 1990s to today seems to be Create a problem via inaction, negligence or partisanship grandstanding. Blame the problem on the democratic party and liberalism in general Insist on solution that doesn’t actually address the problem, but does benefit the tiny minority of wealthy families and… Continue reading GOP101
Lawyers, Coins, and Money
there’s no similar limit on the amount of coinage. A little-known statute gives the secretary of the Treasury the authority to issue platinum coins in any denomination. So some commentators have suggested that the Treasury create two $1 trillion coins, deposit them in its account in the Federal Reserve and write checks on the proceeds.… Continue reading Lawyers, Coins, and Money