Conservatism, Europe, Federal Reserve Bank, Feminism, Uncategorized
If Barack Obama gets reelected, he will face two Republican Houses. Thus his budget plan has no hope of ever being put to the vote. “It’s all about election year 2012, not fiscal year 2013,” writes CNN’s Alan Silverleib, about Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget. Obama’s plan hikes taxes on the wealthiest Americans to the tune […Read On]
Debt, Democrats, Economy, Inflation, Propaganda, Republicans
From John King, USA (CNN statist) to Shepard Smith (FoxNews statist), to Fareed Sakaria (all-round Zombie), to Larry Kudlow: all are agreed that the chief danger to the US economy comes from the debt debate, and not the actual debt. Causality has been turned on its head in all but one of the Newsspeak-dominated TV […Read On]
Business, Education, Elections, Free Markets, Government, Labor, Socialism, The State, Uncategorized
By the look and sound of the striking educators on the streets of Madison, Wisconsin (here), the kids (plenty stupid in their own right), are not missing much. Chaos theory aside, the public sector was never supposed to be able to strike; that’s a later socialistic privilege they were granted (See “Regulation of unions and […Read On]
I’m not talking about “The Queen Elizabeth 2” cruise ship, but of “‘Quantitative Easing,’ which is state-speak for the government’s monkeying with the money supply.” That ship has indeed sailed a long time ago. At the end of September, we reported here on a $1 trillion Fed infusion of paper into our hot-air balloon of […Read On]