Category Archives: Government Spending
Thank You Captain Obvious – Do We Really Need A Deficit Panel?
This past weekend the Obama administration worked incredibly hard [sarcasm included] to establish a deficit panel. If any American doesn’t realize that we have an unprecedented deficit, they must be living in a cave or a bunker for 60 years. … Continue reading
Filed under Congress, Democrats, Government Spending, National Debt, Obama, Obama Administration, Republicans, Unemployment
While You Were Out: A $447B Omnibus Chock Full of Earmarks Passed
Just when you thought the government couldn’t spend any more the House passes the second Omnibus of the year, full of 5,912 earmarks – for ‘jobs,’ I’m sure. The omnibus is a little different from normal since it rolls … Continue reading
Filed under Congress, Government Spending, National Debt
The DC Disease of Cronyism: Hillary’s Pollster Gets $6M in Stimulus Funds
Hillary Clinton’s pollster, Mark Penn, received funds for two of his firms from the recent stimulus bill. The same bill that was supposed to put jobless Americans back to work. The evidence that this bill was merely a pay off … Continue reading
Filed under Corruption, Democrats, Government Spending, Obama Administration, Republicans, Stimulus
Irrational Economics
I have to tend to believe that when there are so many unknowns and people believing there is an unending crisis, they begin to lose their minds. Politicians and those in control of passing laws, creating new approaches to resolve … Continue reading
Filed under Economy, Government Spending, National Debt, Obama Administration
An Inconvenient Health Care Truth For Media Conveniently Afraid Of Statistics
The media during Bush’s 8 years certainly was not afraid to pull out any statistics that would discredit Republicans or the administration. One of their favorite statistics was the number of deaths during the Iraq War. However, now that there … Continue reading
Filed under Congress, Double Standards, Economy, Government Spending, Health Care, Hypocrisy, Media, MSM, National Debt, Obama, ObamaCare, Progressivism
Another Obama Double-Cross, Media Cover-up: No Additional Social Security Money Until 2012
Par for the course I guess, but this is becoming quite a pattern with the Obama administration and the news media. Obama has this strange habit of promising everybody the world, but once in power, takes it all back and … Continue reading
Filed under Congress, Double Standards, Economy, Government Spending, Hypocrisy, Inflation, Media, MSM, National Debt, Obama, Obama Administration
Cash For Clunkers Is Getting The Hook!
It’s about time too! The Cash for Clunkers program has been a disaster of significant proportions, which is quite sad considering how insignificant and minuscule this program is on the scale of things. If a simple clunker program that the Germans … Continue reading
Filed under Cash for Clunkers, Economy, Government Spending, Obama, Obama Administration
Your Taxpayer Dollars Continue To Subsidize Chinese Owned US Assets
If you thought the government, couldn’t get any more insane, it has. The government is backing/funding China’s purchase of US assets. We are creating a PPIP for the Chinese, whereby, the US Treasury matches private purchases of US assets like bonds … Continue reading
Filed under Economy, Government Spending, National Debt, Obama Administration
Cash For Clunkers: I Told Ya So!
Here is what I originally wrote about when Cash for Clunkers was still being debated in Congress, when I was still unsure as to whether this bill really had a chance, since it seemed like complete idiocy to me – … Continue reading
Filed under Cash for Clunkers, Congress, Economy, Government Spending, National Debt, Obama
