The president’s stimulus do-over: This time he heeded the warnings President Obama’s jobs speech to Congress, writes Ross Douthat, outlined what should have been the original economic blueprint: a short-term stimulus highlighted by a payroll tax cut, a medium-term push to overhaul the tax code and a plan for long-term entitlement reform. By Ross Douthat […]
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NEWS & OBSERVER Fri, Sep 16, 2011 Positively Ponzi BY CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER – Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON The Great Social Security Debate, Proposition 1: Of course it’s a Ponzi scheme. In a Ponzi scheme, the people who invest early get their money out with dividends. But these dividends don’t come from any profitable or
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Victor Davis Hanson September 14, 2011 4:00 A.M. When Obama stands up to speak, he faces a collective “Been there, done that.” Ex-president George W. Bush with accustomed candor once shrugged after the end of his eight-year presidency, “People were kind of tired of me.” That ennui happens eventually
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The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty http://www.thefreemanonline.org Why Socialism Failed by Mark J. Perry • June 1995 • Vol. 45/Issue 6 Socialism is the Big Lie of the twentieth century. While it promised prosperity, equality, and security, it delivered poverty, misery, and tyranny. Equality was achieved only in the sense that everyone was equal in
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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011 Business had better enjoy the next 16 months. President Obama unveiled part two of his American Jobs Act on Monday, and it turns out to be another permanent increase in taxes to pay for more spending and another temporary tax cut. No surprise there. What might surprise Americans, however, is how the
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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011 Neither candidate is helping the cause of reform. Republicans have been more frustrated than usual with their Presidential candidates, and last Tuesday’s debate exchange on Social Security between Rick Perry and Mitt Romney shows why. One candidate seemed to taunt his critics by showing disdain for anyone who supports the entitlement for
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/8/obama-and-the-lunatic-left/ > > KUHNER: OBAMA AND THE LUNATIC LEFT > President and his followers intend to end America’s greatness > By Jeffrey T. Kuhner > > The Washington Times > Thursday, September 8, 2011 > > President Obama is politically insane. This is the real meaning of his speech Thursday night in front of a
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Read his lips: No new jobs. Fred Barnes September 12, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 48 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: It’s worth noting these programs are temporary and targeted. The president prefers that approach. It has the value of keeping the government in control. Permanent, broad-based tax rate cuts for
