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Nowhere to run from a global gov’t.

Got an issue you oppose strongly enough, at least now you can pick up your phone or write an e-mail to your state and federal representatives. But who do you call once the “global bureaucrats” are in charge?
Janet Daley of the UK Telegraph explains:
… the word “global”, as in “global economic crisis”, meant: “It’s not [...]

Clunkers: Hurts the poor.

John Stossel adds to the evidence that President Obama’s Cash for Clunkers program damages the economic environment in unseen ways — indeed, it doesn’t help the poor, it actually hurts the poor:
If you can only afford $500 – $1,000 for a car, you’ll find many of these vehicles are now unavailable.  They have been sent [...]

Clunkers: That which is unseen.

Gwen Ottinger of the Chemical Heritage Foundation’s Center for Contemporary History and Policy in Philadelphia — and boy is that a mouthful — appears to be one of those rare environmentally conscience persons who also happen to have common sense. “Keep your clunker,” says Gwen, it’s better for the economy and the environment:
First, even when [...]

Who can compete with Uncle Sam?

In 40 years working in television news, and now living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, I’m surrounded by people who sneer at “profit.”  At Princeton, I was taught that pursuit of profit was largely destructive, and I took that attitude to my consumer reporting. I hated the profits made by the scam artists [...]

Stossel: Conceited politicians.

Here’s John Stossel. All American taxpayers should share his sentiments:
I’ve written before about the conceit of politicians who dole out taxpayers’ money and then expect that people worship them for the help they give. Occasionally, a politician says it outright, like in this short video of Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell that came out today:
“State workers [...]

If not socialism, what is?

Here’s another Jonah Goldberg. Read the whole thing.
The government effectively owns General Motors and controls Chrysler, and the president is deciding what kind of cars they can make. Uncle Sam owns majority stakes in American International Group, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and controls large chunks of the banking industry. Also, President Obama wants government to [...]

Upside down after 150,000 miles.

The argument of fuel-economy savings versus the inflated up-front cost of the new vehicles is fantasy, but the retorts bear often repetition in the face of a government attempting to slam down the consumers’ throats what type of vehicle is “good for them.” Here’s a letter in the WSJ responding to Sec. LaHood’s utopian predictions:

Transportation [...]

An odd admission by Waxman.

House Democrats were worried that their Republican counterparts would “stall” the vote on an amendment to Rep. Henry Waxman’s “climate change” bill, which doesn’t actually change the climate, even if you believe in that sort of nonsense, by forcing it to be read aloud first. So the Democrats countered by — and here’s your tax [...]

The Statist and Soft Tyranny.

In light of the Obama administration’s decision to ram down the throat of the American consumer Utopian fuel-efficiency standards I found the following excerpt from Mark Levin appropriate:
The modern liberal believes in the supremacy of the state, thereby rejecting the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the order of the civil society, in whole [...]

The gov’t terrible track record.

The Obama administration is bent on becoming a major player in — if not taking over entirely — America’s health-care, automobile and banking industries. Before that happens, it might be a good idea to look at the government’s track record in running economic enterprises. It is terrible.
That’s from John Steele Gordon. Problem #1? Private companies [...]