In case you missed it, the June jobs report is out, and the numbers are not good (though the Obama administration had a ready-made – and well-worn – excuse ready to go at a moment’s notice; more on that below). As Daniel Horowitz wrote here this morning: The headline number of the establishment survey is that only 80,000 net jobs were created last month, about | Read More »
TEN YEARS HAVE passed since terrorists hijacked airliners and flew them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In that period, America has fought wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, carried out hundreds armed drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen (among other locations), and conducted covert operations around the world, all in the name of what President George W. Bush termed the “Global War on | Read More »
Ordinarily a title like that would be far more attention-getter than accurate descriptor, but what else can we say when we see President Obama so shamelessly yukking it up at the expense of those suffering under his hapless, incapable “leadership” that a CBS reporter is forced to ask if his unseemly behavior is the result of being “punch-drunk”? According to Politico: President Barack Obama said | Read More »
At 2:45, the Congressman from Mizzurruh has some pointed, and accurate, words for the President whose bailouts and budgets are assaults on capitalism, productivity, and responsibility, and whose every action has served to abort recovery, instead driving our economy further into a hole.
Faced with a shortage of funds this year and unwilling to cut the bloated state budget, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius is planning to welsh on the state’s debt to taxpayers who overpaid in 2008 and to put a hold on paychecks owed to state employees until the Republican-controlled state legislature allows her to break state law by borrowing hundreds of millions of dollars from already | Read More »
Ranking Ways and Means member Dave Camp (R-MI) presses Thomas Barthold, head of the Joint Committee on Taxation, on the number of jobs that will be created by the Democrats’ nearly $1T “stimulus” plan:
For the first time in 23 years, Michigan’s unemployment rate is in the double digits — 10.6% to be exact, a figure one-third higher than the national average. That number is an increase from November’s rate of 9.6%, according to the state Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth (DELEG). Between November and December, “total employment dropped by 68,000 and unemployment rose by 47,000, as | Read More »
[W]e’ve been guided by a Republican administration who believes in the simplistic notion that people who have wealth are entitled to keep it, and they have an antipathy towards the means of redistributing wealth. -Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) Couple that with Barack Obama’s statement yesterday that “Only government can break the vicious cycles that are crippling our economy,” and you get a pretty clear picture | Read More »
The “living wage” debate has been ongoing for far longer than it should have been at this point, with feel-good liberals demanding that minimum-wage workers be paid twice or thrice their current rate so that they can “afford to live” without rising above their bottom-of-the-line jobs (or, I suspect, rising above what those same liberals consider their “station” in life), and with folks who live | Read More »
What is it some folks don’t get about the virtue of letting businesses fail when there’s no demand for their product? Via Michelle Malkin.
Update-10/1@1500CDT: A Senate contact just emailed to correct my use of the term “tax earmarks” to describe the tax extenders in the Senate legislation. Brian Johnson of Americans for Tax Reform has a good post below explaining why that term is a misnomer, saying in part: Calling tax cuts “earmarks” is very unhelpful and completely wrong from a fiscal conservative perspective. There is no such | Read More »
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