L.A. “street artist” Saber was the lucky winner of a contest held by the DNC, to find their fave video which schlepped Obamacare. The official name of the contest was “President Barack Obama’s Organizing For America Health Reform Video Challenge.” (Organizing For America is Obama’s continuous-campaign machine.) Saber’s video features a mural of an America [...]
Archive for October, 2009
31 Oct
Goldman Sachs And The Naked-Short Swindle
Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi is perhaps the biggest thorn in Wall Street’s side. He has doggedly investigated the biggest players–particularly Government Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley. He explores their brazen take-down of their biggest competitors: Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, and their complicity in the massive fraud infecting all of our financial markets. [...]
30 Oct
The House Health Bill: Rolling The Dice On The Big Bang Approach to Policy
Very soon, the House of Representatives is expected to vote on legislation ( H.R. 3962). That 1990 page bill, if enacted, will have an unprecedented impact on our economy, the federal budget, and the lives of all Americans. You can read that bill right here. Here is a crucial question: Do members of Congress have [...]
30 Oct
The House Health Bill: A Welfare Spending Explosion
Members of Congress too often just forget: Medicaid is a welfare program. It is also one of the most poorly performing of all the federal welfare programs. Instead of doing anything innovative or imaginative to fix it, Members of Congress are intent on ramping up Medicaid spending and expanding it. Many currently uninsured Americans are [...]
30 Oct
Pelosi Plan Would Give Health Czar Super Powers
Among the fallacies in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s health care bill is the pretense that bureaucrats are smarter than the rest of us. An unelected bureaucrat would be given czar-like control over our lives, our health, and our pocketbooks. Even super powers. This new all-powerful “health choices commissioner” would be entrusted with more power than most [...]
30 Oct
The Verdict’s In: Cap and Trade Will Not Work
Over the summer The Washington Post called Europe’s experience with cap and trade as “Exhibit A” of what not to do on climate. Yesterday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Iain Murray brought evidence to the jury – that jury being Senate Environment & Public Works Committee. Murray detailed the failures of the EU cap and trade [...]
30 Oct
China, India Cancel Out Copenhagen
“Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government.” –George Washington “The Copenhagen Conference is about the world’s Lilliputians tying [...]
30 Oct
New Yorkers’ Tax Blues Are Driving Them Out
While Frank Sinatra wanted to wake up in a city that doesn’t sleep, today’s New Yorkers are looking to live in states where taxes aren’t so steep. New York, whose state and local taxes are among the highest in the nation, is bleeding residents due in large part to the state’s extraordinarily high tax rate. [...]
30 Oct
Job One is to Tell the Whole Jobs Story
Whenever government throws billions of dollars at the economy, one would certainly expect to find some jobs at the end of those dollars. President Obama has worked hard to convince the nation that the mega fiscal stimulus he signed into law produced some 650,000 jobs. This PR blitz is amazing in the face of an [...]
