Tag: "Big Government"
Could You Use $4000? Too Bad We Don’t Work for President Obama’s Favorite Car Company
On the surface, it should be good news when a company is doing well enough that it can pay out almost $190 million dollars in bonuses to its rank and file salaried employees. If the directors are good with it, the creditors are in good shape, and the company is doing well, employees ought to [...]
Guess Who’s Okay With Big Financial Regulations? Big Finance!
Tim Carney has a post today about how an influential chunk of the financial sector has decided not to help repeal the ridiculous Dodd-Frank financial services legislation in place. I suppose that makes sense from their point of view. They are certainly large enough to absorb regulatory costs that will cripple smaller companies and their [...]
The President’s Budget Cuts: A Wee Scratch, Not An Amputation
Last Sunday, the President’s budget director Jacob Lew took to the pages of the New York Times to spread the good news that Barack Obama is a born-again budget cutter because he has announced some $775 million in cuts to his 2011 budget. To make sure we knew just how serious the President is about [...]
The Revolution Will Not Be Shown on Your In-Flight Movie
Why, I ask again, would anyone in their right mind want to fly a commercial airline? Two things to know about me: 1) I’m fairly cheap about air travel. I hate the idea of paying to sit at the pointy end of the plane (other people, though, are welcome to pay for me; and in [...]
We’ll Fix Social Security Over Their Dead Political Careers, And I’m Okay with That
In the coming budget battle, a growing number of Democrats have chosen a side — against the American people. The battle lines are forming within the Democratic Party over the charged question of reforming Social Security in the days leading up to President Obama’s State of the Union address. Liberals, such as Sen. Bernie Sanders [...]
Who Said Raising Debt Limit in 2006 Was “A Sign of Leadership Failure”?
Andrew McCarthy found a very convincing argument Republicans can use in the upcoming debate over whether to increase the debt ceiling to well over $14 trillion. I would like it very much if a smart conservative Senator stood up and read this, from the 2006 push to raise the debt ceiling to what today seems [...]
For State Republicans, Budgets Had Better Be Job One
If I didn’t know that Reuters was a respectable, objective, non-biased news agency, I’d say there was a distinct undercurrent of sorrow in this lede. Legislators in U.S. states who are returning to work this month or entering office for the first time expect to spend much of the new year pinching pennies. According to [...]
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