Tag: Economy

Obamanomics Is A Failure

Only a few weeks ago the White House press Secretary Josh Earnest pushed the Obama “strong” recovery.   Strong recovery? If you’re a skeptic, join the crowd. Compared with the average postwar recovery, the economy in the last six years has…

The Fiscal Sword of Damocles

“The first point I want to get across is that our nation is broke. Our nation’s broke, and it’s not broke in 75 years or 50 years or 25 years or 10 years. It’s broke today. Indeed, it may well…

A Cheap Imitation of Europe

Something quite troubling has happened to our economy and society; something that can be traced directly to the deeply hypocritical policies of an administration devoted to the manipulation of people through tax policies, spending programs, and rhetoric that have combined…

Debt Is The Death of Hope

Debt is about more than just money. It’s about the end of expectations and the death of hope. In a speech at DHS Obama declared that he wants to “replace mindless austerity with smart investments that strengthen America.” Those “smart”…

Government Destroys Jobs

If the media tells us that XYZ has created 1,000 new jobs we get excited; when QRS closes and jobs are lost, we’re sad and the politician who can provide a subsidy to save QRS is almost assured of wide-spread…

Fossil Fuels: A Non-negotiable Essential

“Anyone who cares about our environment and our climate must recognize that cheap, plentiful, reliable energy is a nonnegotiable essential.”   Alex Epstein, “The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels” Obama  describes the oil industry as a “tyranny.”  Bill McKibben claims that the…

The Recovery Con Game

Rarely does one see the edge of the cliff or the bottom of the abyss before it has swallowed them. In the years leading up the Great Depression, numerous “experts” and politicians were quick to discount the idea of economic…

The Bubble Of False Prosperity

For a long time now, we have been enjoying a period of relative economic stability even though our underlying economic fundamentals continue to get worse. Unfortunately there are now a bunch of signs that this period of relative stability is…

“Another Way To Skin A Cat”

After Cap and Trade failed to attract even modest traction in Democratic controlled Congress, Obama said that “it was just one way to skin the cat.” Now we know that the cat he referenced was the American consumers as he…

Blue State Disease

“You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred.…