Recently there has been a lot of hay made about Obama’s stimulus, Keynesian economics, space aliens, etc. but there is an underlying problem that needs addressing. This problem is the misconceptions between income, as a benefit of employment, and wealth. … Continue reading →
First, regarding Mr. Immelt’s proposal that companies should stop whining about government and just start hiring – keep in mind that GE has shed about 10% of its workforce in the last two years (roughly 37,000 out from a base … Continue reading →
Dread & Awful Czar, Dr. J., as you know, has been following Washington’s tax dilemma with baited breath here, here and most notably, here. President Obama presented his so-called compromise with the congressional Republicans to the wailing and gnashing of … Continue reading →
Say it ain’t so, Joe Biden! In yet another example of (a) the failure of the Stimulus, (b) the failure of this administration creating those magical “green jobs” and (c) another example of the failure of this administration to deliver … Continue reading →
Just a wonderfully brutal take down of some sleight-of-hand with charts. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Amusing, but it stems from what was always a somewhat ugly side of this whole silly ‘shovel-ready’ meme. Basically, what ‘shovel-ready’ was always about was upper-middle-class lefties openly fantasizing about putting armies of peasants to work doing things that…upper-middle-class lefties … Continue reading →
The offices of Sens. Coburn & McCain have put out an entertaining pamphlet called Summertime Blues which lists 100 stimulus projects that seem a bit superfluous. Like: “Town Replaces New Sidewalks With Newer Sidewalks That Lead to Ditch.” Check it … Continue reading →
Have you ever been asked how long it would take you do complete a task you’ve never done before? You might have familiarity with the general approach or of some of the steps required, but in general it comes down … Continue reading →
Given the recent setbacks failures that the democrat party has experienced, what can we look forward to in the coming months from them in order to preserve what they can going into the 2010 elections? Well, the Czar points out … Continue reading →
I’ve been meaning to post a story on the further woes of the Obama Administration’s stimulus activity but I’ve been tied up time traveling again. The Czar dropped a note from operative MB in my inbox at the castle pointing … Continue reading →
Don’t be fooled, we told you that this was coming. The Obama administration has bungled the jobs “saved or created” figure that they released last Friday. The report had stated that 640,000 jobs were “created or saved” through the use … Continue reading →
You’d think this is a hoax, but only if you were sane. Congress has decided it has had enough of Cash for Clunkers. After all, the program proved to be unmanageable, has completely run out of funding, and still has … Continue reading →
Optimistic signs of recovery abound. No doubt you have heard that some recipients of TARP funds have already begun paying the money back. This is very good news, because it shows the American business can heal itself, and the government … Continue reading →
A few weeks back, several Gormogons picked on the Obama administration’s claims that the Stimulus package had “created or saved 150,000 jobs” (for those doubters out there, POTUS Obama said it on May 27th, Gaffe-master Biden said it on June … Continue reading →
ABC News, the official press agency of the White House, has a story that the government is spending $18 Million of the “stimulus” money towards revamping the White House’s stimulus money tracking website. The very same one that Joe Biden … Continue reading →
Lao Tzu (for whom the Volgi has always had a low tolerance and once hit him in the head with an empty port bottle) once wrote “The Dow which can be spoken of is not the eternal way.” Indeed, the … Continue reading →
CHICAGO – Chicago White Sox front office spokesman Scott Reifert announced today that fans attending a July 11 twin bill versus the Minnesota Twins at US Cellular Field will receive a free commemorative mini-bat, unlimited ten cent Budweiser, and up … Continue reading →
Yesterday evening, my son was watching Walt Disney Studios’ 1973 release of Robin Hood on DVD. What caught my attention was this bit of dialog between Robin Hood and Little John at the beginning of the movie: (Little John) You … Continue reading →
Remember that Stimulus Bill that POTUS Obama promised the American people would go towards shovel-ready jobs? Jumpstarting the economy? $787 BILLION. Well, here in Maryland we were tagged with about $4 Billion and according to a March 2009 report by … Continue reading →
When will the press pressure this administration on specifics? Likely never. The latest irksome event is President Obama’s statement yesterday that the stimulus effort has “saved or created” 150,000 jobs already. I’ll try to keep this rated PG: What a … Continue reading →
If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a “stimulus,” then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to unprecedented prosperity… —GorT’s imaginary grandfather, Thos. Sowell Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. … Continue reading →
So everyone (on the right, at least) keeps noting that Obama’s “stimulus” package is nothing like an actual stimulus package and won’t help the economy. It’s just the an enormous spending and social-engineering package, the agglomeration of Democrat wish-lists of … Continue reading →
‘Puter understood the Obama Administration to hold forth that consumers, companies, banks and states borrowing (leveraging) at crazy levels well in excess of their abilities to repay got us into this recession/depression/Armageddon. The Obama Administration’s proposed remedy is for the … Continue reading →
With the Senate passing the Giant Technicolor Stimulus Bill, people have started looking at some of the details – for example, the $10 Billion for broadband access. It sounds like a great idea. The U.S. as powerful as it is, … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s fairly certain that the House’s passed stimulus package is going to harm more than help, for any number of reasons, not least of which is that Republicans have thus far, to a man (person, if you must), refused to … Continue reading →
Notwithstanding reports that all economists are now Keynesians and that we all support a big increase in the burden of government, we the undersigned do not believe that more government spending is a way to improve economic performance. More government … Continue reading →
So much was debated over how President Obama would govern and how he would “heal the wounds and divisions” in the country. Now we are presented with the $300+ Billion stimulus bill which is getting choked down in democrat pork … Continue reading →
