For the last few weeks we’ve heard that the Obama Administration is going to focus its attention once again on jobs. Great, because we’ve seen how well that’s worked in the past, spending hundreds of billions of dollars to see our unemployment rate skyrocket to 10% This “focus back on jobs” line is a symptom of a much bigger problem: the Administration and Democratic leadership | Read More »
Here’s a shocker…. Senate Democrats are continuing down the path of job killing and costly energy reforms based on the tried and failed European cap-and-trade system. Just this week Carlo Stagnaro and Luciano Lavecchia lamented about the cost of “green” jobs on the Italian workforce in a piece for Wall Street Journal Europe:
The Obama Administration is all about the bailouts. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. Whether it’s Wall Street, General Motors, or Fannie and Freddie here at home, or Greece and the European Union abroad. The fact of the matter is our nation’s debt is about to surpass $13 trillion, yet we continue to expand the size and scope of government through programs like Obamacare. | Read More »
Last week, President Obama signed into law the Democrats’ trillion-dollar health care takeover, meaning that one-sixth of the United States economy has now come under the purview of the federal government. This reckless bill will only further burden our already struggling economic sector, and we’re already seeing proof of that as companies like Caterpillar and AT&T are announcing the financial blow this bill will take | Read More »
You’ve got to hand it to the North Dakota Republican Party and its Chairman Gary Emineth, who last Friday evening may just have shown the whole GOP a better approach than the traditional “Town Hall Meeting.” Instead of gathering together people to listen to politicians, he brought together politicians to listen to the people. And much to Mr. Emineth’s credit, instead of focusing on the | Read More »
The United States Preventive Services Task Force this week released a report that encourages women to wait an extra decade before receiving breast cancer examinations. Eyebrows were immediately raised not only in the cancer research community but also by lawmakers on the Hill. Turning years of medical guidelines upside down, the report recommends against routine mammograms for women ages 40 to 49, and recommends that | Read More »
The cap and trade national energy tax is being sold to the American people as a free-market answer to environmental problems. Dressed in green as it is, people are led to believe that it was a scheme hatched by the environmentally conscious. The truth is that cap and trade is a product of the very same minds that gave us subprime loans and market bubbles, | Read More »
Right now in Washington, D.C., we are seeing nothing short of the deconstruction of America’s free-market system. To be blunt, the strong arm tactics of the Obama Administration’s Auto Task Force are crushing the dreams of many American business owners – and simultaneously putting our future prosperity in jeopardy. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve spoken with the GM and Chrysler car dealerships from | Read More »
When President Obama unveiled his cap-and-trade energy tax in January, he referenced the government-aided renewable energy policies of Spain as a model. The Spanish plan aimed for renewable energy to saturate 12% of the energy market and 20% of the electric production by 2010. Now, as cap-and-tax makes its way through Congress and nears reality for American consumers, we come to discover the less-than-rosy side | Read More »
I have made no secret of my objections to a proposed cap-and-trade energy tax that will result in increased costs for every single American. The tax would require energy producers and businesses to pay to emit carbon emissions in the hope of reducing greenhouse gases. You, the consumer, would be footing the bill. I published an op-ed in the Star Tribune earlier this month highlighting | Read More »
Without a doubt, our economy is facing a confidence crisis. As the historic plummet of the markets last week demonstrated, Wall Street has little confidence in recovery right now. And, as I hear from constituents every day, so has the public. Though 92% of mortgage holders continue to pay their mortgages on time, they worry about joining the growing ranks of the unemployed, recovering their | Read More »
It’s official. Washington’s favorite word this year is “bailout.” It’s been overused by Congress’ elite in hopes of rescuing their corporate friends from poor decision-making. It’s been used to pick the pockets of the already hurting taxpayer. It’s become a euphemism for robbing Peter to pay Paul. The last thing a struggling, hard-working family needs is another Washington bailout which forces them further into debt | Read More »
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