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Seven “Firsts” for the US Economy
From Wynton Hall at Breitbart…an end of year (or beginning of year) list of Mr. Obama’s new normal. This is his America, and that of Democrats who have had a majority control of the US government for six years now. Mr. Hall calls these “seven firsts for the US economy.” 1. All-time record annual average …
Hope and Change
H/T The Looking Spoon
Chasing the Equality Rabbit Down the Democrat’s Debt Hole
Even if it does not appear obvious, even to the casual observer, once government gets started on something it is difficult to get it to stop. So where exactly do we expect the Democrats notions of state managed economic leveling to take us? Their talk of economic equality centers on the idea that the government …
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Paul Ryan on Poverty
“The mindset behind this approach is that a nation should measure compassion by the size of the federal government and how much it spends….The problem is, starting in the 1960s, this top-down approach created and perpetuated a debilitating culture of dependency, wrecking families and communities.” “There’s a vast middle ground between the government and the …
Have You Met Julia?
Have you met Julia? She’s you under the eternal reign of Obamanomics–as viewed from within the left wing ghetto. From Red State Over at Human Events, my colleague David Harsanyi writes “Who the hell is ‘Julia,’ and why am I paying for her whole life?” It’s a fair question. According to Obama’s campaign website, someone …
Building the American Underclass
Theodore Dalrymple (pen name), has produced some of the most compelling work I’ve read about the welfare state and how it creates and sustains the underclass. If you are still staring out across the crumbling wreckage of the fruited plain, wondering how we got here and where we may be headed, Dalrymple has some very …
If the economy is getting better…(Part 6)
…then why has the number of children living in poverty in America risen for four years in a row? Isn’t it all about the children? It is. And in a startling bit of irony, according to the Foundation for Child Development at least, the number of children living with families at or below the poverty …
If the economy is getting better…(Part 4)
…then why is the percentage of Americans living in “extreme poverty” at an all-time high? Nothing says economic recovery like rising poverty. Not just poverty but extreme poverty. What, you hadn’t heard about that? Then maybe you hadn’t heard this either. Joblessness begets dependence, begets poverty, begets slaves to the will of the government. Big …
7 Things About Obama
Things everyone should know about Democrat leadership. (No need to remind you that they will blame everyone but themselves for it.) Every day, the U.S. government takes in $6 billion and spends $10 billion. This means that every day the federal government spends $4 billion more dollars than it has. The real unemployment rate …
