We want less government domestically. Sometimes, that requires less government elsewhere in the world. Most of the time, we (rightly) can not affect that change. Thankfully, when it comes to trade policy, we can. For instance, We the People now have a sugar tariff regime. Shocker – anti-free market protectionist practices beget results diametrically opposite of their intent. Smoot-Hawley, anyone? Engaging in a Big Government | Read More »
There are Leftist groups that claim the mantle of protecting the “consumer interest.” Asserting they exist to protect consumers from the abusive, evil acts of corporate America. In most instances, this is all (shocker) double speak. These aren’t “consumer” interest groups – they’re government interest groups. Interested only in growing government. It’s not free market bad actors they don’t like – it’s the free market | Read More »
From the diaries…
The Barack Obama Administration has nominated Tom Wheeler to replace Julius Genachowski as Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman. (Wheeler awaits Senate approval.)
Wheeler has – Heaven forfend – actually held pertinent private sector gigs:
Wheeler served as president of the National Cable Television Association (NCTA), and later as CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA).
Many on the Left find Wheeler’s real-world experience and knowledge troubling:
Senator Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent (umm, he’s a Socialist), (said)… “I…am troubled that President Obama would appoint the former head of two major industry lobbying associations to regulate the industry.”
Many on the Left find it very troubling:
Read More »President Barack Obama and the Left have declared the government is now even more extensively in the economic “fairness” business. Obama Unveils Budget With Call for ‘Fair’ Economy Obama Calls for Economy Where ‘Everyone Does Their Fair Share’ Giving Everyone a Fair Shot (on BarackObama.com) They have even in Orwellian fashion so-named a terribly unfair bill. 9,646 Reasons to Dislike the ‘Marketplace Fairness Act’ As | Read More »
Every private sector company spends every waking second (and many sleeping ones) trying to get new customers. It’s a relentless pursuit of improvement. Of their goods and services, customer service, marketing – whatever angles they can find to gain a better market share. Then there’s the government – which stinks on ice at just about everything it tries to do. And perhaps nothing better demonstrates | Read More »
The Big Government, Never-Enough-of-Your-Coin-Coalition – Internet Division – is at it yet again. The Barack Obama Administration has since it’s inception been very active in over-regulating the Web – for instance, Network Neutrality and Socialist-esque wireless price caps, to name but two huge power grabs. Net Neutrality is in legal jeopardy – there are lawsuits pending to overturn it. So President Obama’s Federal Communications Commission | Read More »
The Barack Obama Administration is fabulously successful at choosing terribly in the private sector. Solyndra. Fisker. The Chevy Volt. Ener1. A123 Systems. Beacon Power. Abound Solar. Evergreen Solar. And on, and on, and…. It’s often Crony Socialism – President Obama giving governmental benefit and/or our money to his donors and friends. Or it’s his having no idea what works and what doesn’t. Or both. Regardless, | Read More »
President Barack Obama has for five-plus years said and done two contradictory things regarding the United States’ economy. 1) He has repeatedly said that he wants the private sector to recover – and indeed thrive. 2) He has repeatedly, dramatically grown government – in terms of spending, laws, regulations and taxes. And rigidly insists that he be allowed to continue to do all of it. | Read More »
President Barack Obama is currently contemplating a replacement for Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski – who has announced his intention to step down. Genachowski has been a good Leftist foot soldier, willfully ignoring the amazing free market successes of the Internet to implement large swaths of President Obama’s uber-regulatory agenda. Arguably the largest swath is Network Neutrality. Net Neutrality remains a major problem | Read More »
Meet Susan Crawford. She is the Queen of Internet Uber-Regulation. She LOVES Network Neutrality. Miss Crawford was President Barack Obama’s Special Assistant for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy. Until she left – or was thrown out the door for trenchant radical Left-ness by then White House National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers. Since, Miss Crawford returned to her gig as – shocker – a college | Read More »
The next big Big Government grab? Your data – now increasingly digitized. ObamaCare, anyone? Campaign Finance “Reform” reporting requirements? As for gun background checks – has anyone yet demanded the Federales delete the data of the people who pass? Otherwise, it’s a gi-normous backdoor gun registration process. We need transparency from government – not transparency to government. The information you voluntary give to private companies | Read More »
We’ve heard it from the Left for years. Europe allegedly has much better, faster and cheaper Internet service than does the United States – because the European Union and individual governments are far more involved in regulating and even funding service providers. Why is European Broadband Faster and Cheaper? Blame the Government New York Times Three-Part Series: The Broadband Gap: Why Is Theirs Faster? The | Read More »
Yes, Leftists are talking about taxing emails. Again. Ponder for but a moment the monumental government overreach necessary to monitor and count every email every American sends. Network Neutrality and President Barack Obama’s Cyber Security Executive Order are hay-yuge government Web data grabs. They pale in comparison to this. And – shocker – this latest tax-your-every-email notion emanates from Berkley, California. (City Councilman) Gordon Wozniack | Read More »
The mostly regulation-free Internet has become a free speech, free market Xanadu. So of course President Barack Obama and his Left want to regulate the daylight out of it. In their efforts to do so, they will spin any tale to try to engender any public support for new Web regulations. For instance, the Barack Obama Administration is likely about to totally fabricate a U.S. | Read More »
The more digital our lives become, the easier it is for government to access and accumulate our data. Big Government advocates much prefer electronic files to millions of disparate hard copies in millions of personal filing cabinets. Congress must write good laws establishing delimited parameters for what the government can and can’t have – consistent with the Fourth Amendment. The right of the people to | Read More »
If You Sign On with Dogs, You May End Up Fleeced Free Press is the Media Marxist organization leading the charge to wrest control of the internet from those who have invested tens of billions of dollars to develop it into the free speech, free market Xanadu that it is today. Free Press and their ilk would rather sole control of web infrastructure be in | Read More »
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