By DANIEL HENNINGER Anyone who isn’t welded to the Obama-Pelosi-Reid ball and chain has their campaign issue for November’s election and 2012: spending. Republicans, Lieberman-Bayh Democrats, tea partiers, it doesn’t matter. Spending, spending, spending. This is bigger than drill, drill, drill. Way bigger. Finally, after a nonstop, nearly 80-year upward climb, government spending has hit […]
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An article from the Economist Feb 18th 2010 American politics seems unusually bogged down at present. Blame Barack Obama more than the system THIS week Evan Bayh, a senator from Indiana who nearly became Barack Obama’s vice-president, said he was retiring from the Senate, blaming the inability of Congress to get things done. Cynics think
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By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON Investor’s Business Daily In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama said that “families across the country are tightening their belts and making tough decisions,” so the “federal government should do the same.” The following week, the president presented his new budget, which contains $1.267 trillion in new deficit
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/09/AR2010020902464.html ex-“W” speech-writer, Michael Gerson on the alternative to Obamanomics in the person of WI Rep Paul Ryan there is also supposed to be a successful vote on a new stimulus-this time called a jobs bill of 800 billion or some such number with Republicans on board-particularly named is Senator John Kyl. We should worry
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FEBRUARY 13, 2010 The Greek Tragedy That Changed Europe Greece’s dysfunctional economy is now at the heart of a rescue effort that could be disastrous for the entire continent—and the rest of the world. By SIMON JOHNSON and PETER BOONE Associated PressGreek firefighters protest government spending cuts on Jan. 29. Plutus, the Greek god of
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Book Suggestion by Carolina Windy Conservative Book Clubs are on the rise throughout the nation. And they should all think about reading Thomas Sowell’s eyeopening book, Economic Facts and Fallacies. One of the most informative conservatives in America today, Sowell’s writing is rock solid and easy to read. In one small volume, he destroys the
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While Washington Sleeps BY Jaime Daremblum January 25, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 18 While riding in a taxi in my native Costa Rica recently, I saw the country’s magnificent new national soccer stadium rising—it is scheduled to open later this year. The Chinese government bankrolled the $83 million stadium project after Costa Rica ended its
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FEBRUARY 11, 2010, 9:12 P.M. ET Debt-to-GDP ratios over 90% have significant impact on the pace of economic growth. By MICHAEL J. BOSKIN President Barack Obama’s 2011 budget lays out a stunningly expensive big-government spending agenda, mostly to be paid for years down the road. He proposes to increase capital gains, dividend, payroll, income and
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FEBRUARY 10, 2010 Congress’s latest stimulus idea is a bust from the past. Stimulus Plan A didn’t work to create jobs or reduce unemployment. That was the $165 billion of tax rebates and money for states in February 2008. Plan B flopped too. That was last February’s stimulus that has devoted $862 billion into mostly
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