Back during the last administration, “W” proposed stimulating the economy by allowing business to accelerate write-offs. Our friends on the left were livid, what with anything benefiting businesses being evil and all and Bush being an obvious moron. Our Dear Leader’s newest plan to fix everything includes stimulating the economy by allowing business to accelerate [...]
Tagged Economics, Obama, Politics, wtf?Our Dear Leader is going to fix the economy by rolling out a long-term jobs program Monday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways Is it just me, or didn’t we already try the ” 1) Let’s spend some money we don’t have, 2) pretend it will create jobs because we [...]
Tagged Economics, euphemisms, lie to me, Obama, pointless gestures, Politics, whiningFrom tjic: Doing away with a politician’s ability to borrow would be like cutting off one of his arms – it takes two hands to really get a good choke grip on a citizen when you’re anally penetrating him, and thus losing the ability to borrow, like losing an arm, takes away much of the [...]
Tagged congress, Economics, Politics, quotesIf you pay any attention to the debate over whether or not “stimulus” spending is a good idea, you may have heard a non-Keynesian mention the “broken window fallacy.” The Gormogons have posted a simple explanation of this idea in a nice, neat 3 minute and 32 second nutshell.
Tagged Economics, Politics, taxesAs opposed to our Dear Leader who hasn’t bothered to talk to the folks at BP and has not yet learned that talking tough when you have never demonstrated any history of, nor capacity to, nor stomach for following through just makes you look like an impotent, weaselly wuss, consider for a moment this statement [...]
Tagged Obama, oil, Palin, Politics, Science/TechnologyI’ve been on vacation this past week, although at times it’s been hard to tell. Mostly it’s been some running around punctuated by periods of near vegetative stupor. That, and we’ve watched a whole lot of NCIS re-runs. Sunday, the Head Rat and I joined my folks at the Neal Reunion and then visited cemeteries [...]
Tagged congress, Economics, foreign policy, humor, Nanny State, numbers, Obama, Politics, wordsmithingA few links of potential interest: Animated currency route of travel tracking map. Feel like bailing out mismanaged union pension funds? No, me neither, but apparently Congress does. Don’t feel up to going to (or can’t get to) the doctor’s office for that sinus infection you’ve been putting up with for days? How about an [...]
Tagged bailouts, congress, Economics, food, health care, Music, PoliticsSometimes I’m just too tired to write. It seems like I’ve been at that point for weeks. So, you get 3 unrelated bits tonight. WordPress does a pretty good job of intercepting the comment spam that people try to dump on websites. But, I still have to get in and delete it en masse. For [...]
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