Sunday, August 22, 2010 www.therocherecord.com ABC CHOOSES AMANPOUR. GOODBYE For 29 years I’ve been a loyal viewer of the ABC Sunday morning news talk show, “This Week.” From 1981 – 1996 it was “This Week with David Brinkley,” and I rarely missed a broadcast. David Brinkley, Cokie Roberts, Sam Donaldson, and George Will were a
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AUGUST 19, 2010 Unfunded Public Pensions—the Next Quagmire A federal bailout would cost trillions and prevent necessary reforms. But there are several ways states can rationalize their workers’ retirement benefits. By R. EDEN MARTIN The next big issue on the national political horizon may be whether the federal government should bail out the many budget-strapped
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AUGUST 19, 2010 Barney to Fannie: Drop Dead Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles. Barney Frank has been all over the airwaves this week with a clear and—we never thought we’d say this—perfectly sound message about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: “They should be abolished.” Well, praise be. Two years ago next month, then Treasury
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AUGUST 17, 2010 Notable & Quotable Abraham Irwin on how a multi-employer pension plan liability destroyed his business. Abraham Irwin, commenting at WSJ.com in response to the Journal editorial on Aug. 16, “The Next Pension Bailout”: MEPPA [Multi-employer Pension Plan Amendment Act] is not only bad for industry and tax payers, but it is bad
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Frank Roche, economist, comments on issues and concerns of our day http://www.therocherecord.com
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MITT ROMNEY Grow jobs and shrink government By Mitt Romney | August 18, 2010 IT’S NOT happening the way President Obama had planned. Unemployment blew past his 8 percent ceiling and hasn’t looked back. Private sector investment in new jobs and capital has languished. Even the head of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers, Christina
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AUGUST 17, 2010 Uncle Sam, Venture Capitalist Meet the battery company that Obama visited yesterday. President Obama kicked off a five-state campaign swing yesterday with a stop at a “clean energy” plant in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. As it happens, Mr. Obama couldn’t have chosen a better company to demonstrate the risks that taxpayers are taking
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AUGUST 15, 2010 The Next Pension Bailout New momentum to dump union retirement burdens on taxpayers. Congress is gone for August—heaven be praised—but that hasn’t stopped unions from quietly mobilizing to push through a big new priority this fall: a pension bailout. Big Labor is going Code Red on the issue, in the face of
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AUGUST 16, 2010 The End of American Optimism By MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN Our brief national encounter with optimism is now well and truly over. We have had the greatest fiscal and monetary stimulus in modern times. We have had a whole series of programs to pay people to buy cars, purchase homes, pay off their mortgages,
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE Mona Charen July 30, 2010 12:00 A.M. A Democrat Goes into a Psychiatrist’s Office Democrats can’t run on their records, so they accuse Republicans of extremism. Come in. Make yourself comfortable. What’s that? You’re a congressional Democrat? You voted to triple the national debt; destroy a health-care system that an overwhelming majority
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