as wizbang blog says ...or a baby seal or a spotted owl, etc...How far our morals have dropped. How sad.
Monday, February 22, 2010
The joys of children, live ones
as wizbang blog says ...or a baby seal or a spotted owl, etc...How far our morals have dropped. How sad.
Steroid Economics
The cost of President Obama's new health-care plan is so absurd , that even the non-partisan (err, left-leaning) C.B.O. says the bill has no known budget cost. Help us all if this becomes law. There goes our economy into a Zimbabwe-style free-fall.
(R) party - Stay away from the Feb 26 health-care meeting!
(R) party - Stay away from the Feb 26 health-care meeting!
Friday, February 19, 2010
'Roid Withdrawal symptoms
In the world of doping, what does a doper do, when the dealer cuts off his prescription? We may soon find out. A doper can try to brew his own home-made concoctions, but that hardly ever works. Even our local 'roid distributer doesn't want to supply us anymore.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Steroid Deficits
High burgeoning budgets lead to China ditching the US as an economically sane ally.
Private enterprise w/o gov't help leads to finding all kinds of oil everywhere, i.e. a risk paying off w/ a reward.
Private enterprise w/o gov't help leads to finding all kinds of oil everywhere, i.e. a risk paying off w/ a reward.
Rahm tough
To help the (D) keep the victory, conspiracy is afoot in Hoosier-ville. The people's voice will be squashed by a committee of 'experts' deciding who's their candidate. Bayh waited until the last minute to resign, so no one else would run.
Either Rahm Emmanuel engineered Bayh's departure when he privately met w/ Baron Hill (D), or he is being given way too much credit, and only used this loophole as a fall-back plan to find a new moderate Blue-Dog.
Blue Dog Democrat defintition: say you're conservative, but vote against Condi, against Ashcroft, against Alito, against Roberts, for ObamaCare, for Porkulus. Umm, so Bayh's not a moderate, then I guess.
Either Rahm Emmanuel engineered Bayh's departure when he privately met w/ Baron Hill (D), or he is being given way too much credit, and only used this loophole as a fall-back plan to find a new moderate Blue-Dog.
Blue Dog Democrat defintition: say you're conservative, but vote against Condi, against Ashcroft, against Alito, against Roberts, for ObamaCare, for Porkulus. Umm, so Bayh's not a moderate, then I guess.
Dems will lose Senate
Obama showed up in NJ - Chris Christie (R) won.
Obama showed up in VA - Bob McDonnel (R) won.
Obama showed up in MA - Scott Brown (R) won.
Obama will campaign in NV & CO - and now two more seats lean (R) way.
Obama showed up in VA - Bob McDonnel (R) won.
Obama showed up in MA - Scott Brown (R) won.
Obama will campaign in NV & CO - and now two more seats lean (R) way.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Bayh drops out - Wow
InstaPundit broke the news that Evan Bayh is retiring, Gateway Pundit adds that the filing deadline is tomorrow, Kathryn Lopez of The Corner adds that Mike Pence probably wishes he was running, and Jonah Goldberg says that Bayh might challenge Obama in 2012. he had 13 million in campaign funds.
Speculation:? Does he have a huge skeleton that's about to come out in the National Enquirer or did he too hike the Appalatian Trail?
Speculation:? Does he have a huge skeleton that's about to come out in the National Enquirer or did he too hike the Appalatian Trail?
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Obama's budget - steroids-full
Obama admits to Paul Ryan (D - WI), yes my budget is based on steroid economics: large government spending, future tax increases, outrageous deficits, and crushing debts as the engine for economic stability, w/o there being an economic recovery. Businesses will have to get government clearance to do business, and get loans. Plus the businesses always keep less of their own money.
Unionized Steroids
Unions do not create jobs, they destroy them. The higher the rate of unionization, the worse the local economy (see Michigan for example). In today's world-wide labor market, unions can't save jobs, they only pay a few people a whole lot of money, rather than a whole lot of people slightly-less money than the high.
As Tigerhawk points out
"If the "jobs bill" contains card check unionization, it will be a "jobs bill" only insofar as it destroys them."
The more businesses that unionize, the higher the wages, and the wages will be paid at a scale that's worth more than their actual skills. So, less people will be hired or they will offshore the jobs.
HotAir talks about the secret strategy of Big Labor to unionize the world. Their plan is that "the the card-check legislation or key parts of it could be placed into a larger jobs bill this year." Then, only 51 Dems need to vote for the Bill, rather than the filibuster-proof 60 Democrats.
Side-note: ummm, what happened to the first 'jobs' bill.
As Tigerhawk points out
"If the "jobs bill" contains card check unionization, it will be a "jobs bill" only insofar as it destroys them."
The more businesses that unionize, the higher the wages, and the wages will be paid at a scale that's worth more than their actual skills. So, less people will be hired or they will offshore the jobs.
HotAir talks about the secret strategy of Big Labor to unionize the world. Their plan is that "the the card-check legislation or key parts of it could be placed into a larger jobs bill this year." Then, only 51 Dems need to vote for the Bill, rather than the filibuster-proof 60 Democrats.
Side-note: ummm, what happened to the first 'jobs' bill.
More Steroid Economics
The Corner has an breathtaking chart up about what the Federal Budget looks like over the next ten years - They predict that spending amounts will be over $4,000,000,000,000. Veronique de Rugy writes
"In his latest budget request, President Obama added roughly $1.6 trillion inSo the answer to the solving the bad economy is to demand more tax-payer dollars, and ignore the fact that eventually the bill will become due. To buttress one section of the Economy, say Food Stamps, they will take away more tax dollars from the American worker and business.
spending over the next ten years on top of what he requested last year."
Monday, February 8, 2010
Steroid Economics
Jack Murtha earns a dukedom for his Steroid Economics. What is Steroid Economics? It can be summed up in this phrase about Jack Murtha's life from the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette
Government tax dollars do not cause growth, because Congressional budgeters only transfer the wealth of one state's tax dollars to another state, say using Florida's tax money to build new bridges in Nebraska. Usually what happens is a quick influx of cash that overspends for a project, and provides a very brief shot-in-the-arm for that state's economy. Then, the project is finished and all the tax dollars vanish. Any normal business that caters to the government-contracted company is left holding the bag with no economic base. Their customers have left. There is even withdraw and worse contraction resumes. The only solution is to direct more tax dollars to that ravaged economy. But no real growth happens. Once the tax dollars dry up, that local economy dries up.
On the Left, the engine for economic stability is government spending. The Government in charge (local, state, or national) takes our tax dollars and spends them on projects and expenditures deemed necessary. The problem is that once the project is finished or the tax dollars are used, more are needed. But there is no more money, unless new tax dollars are grabbed. Normally, in good economic times the dollars are budeted and spent, so that by the time the government checks would bounce, new tax dollars have been collected to keep up the flow of money. Sometimes loans are needed.
However, in bad economic times, fewer tax dollars can be found. The government resorts to loans, defecit spending, or new taxes. Eventually this spending snowballs into massive debt and no real growth. The Federal Government has the power to take tax dollars from Ohio and spend them on building curbs in Colorado, but once the money is used up, more is needed. In bad economic times no tax dollars can be found. So the government has businessman from China buy the bonds to finance our massive debts.
The problem is the government way overpays for any service, so way more cash than normal floods into one region, but to send cash that way, another section gets left out and the tax dollars are blown, like a drunk on payday.
[F]rom his perch on the House Appropriations defense subcommittee, heIn the short term, Steroid Economics is the view asserting the folly that Government Spending causes stable, long-lasting economic growth. Murtha's 12th District was so poor exactly because he kept steering pork-barrel spending their way.
personally dispensed billions of dollars in federal funds, steering much of it
to his economically wracked 12th Congressional District.
Government tax dollars do not cause growth, because Congressional budgeters only transfer the wealth of one state's tax dollars to another state, say using Florida's tax money to build new bridges in Nebraska. Usually what happens is a quick influx of cash that overspends for a project, and provides a very brief shot-in-the-arm for that state's economy. Then, the project is finished and all the tax dollars vanish. Any normal business that caters to the government-contracted company is left holding the bag with no economic base. Their customers have left. There is even withdraw and worse contraction resumes. The only solution is to direct more tax dollars to that ravaged economy. But no real growth happens. Once the tax dollars dry up, that local economy dries up.
On the Left, the engine for economic stability is government spending. The Government in charge (local, state, or national) takes our tax dollars and spends them on projects and expenditures deemed necessary. The problem is that once the project is finished or the tax dollars are used, more are needed. But there is no more money, unless new tax dollars are grabbed. Normally, in good economic times the dollars are budeted and spent, so that by the time the government checks would bounce, new tax dollars have been collected to keep up the flow of money. Sometimes loans are needed.
However, in bad economic times, fewer tax dollars can be found. The government resorts to loans, defecit spending, or new taxes. Eventually this spending snowballs into massive debt and no real growth. The Federal Government has the power to take tax dollars from Ohio and spend them on building curbs in Colorado, but once the money is used up, more is needed. In bad economic times no tax dollars can be found. So the government has businessman from China buy the bonds to finance our massive debts.
The problem is the government way overpays for any service, so way more cash than normal floods into one region, but to send cash that way, another section gets left out and the tax dollars are blown, like a drunk on payday.
Jack Murtha - The End
Man knoweth not his hour - Ol' Jack Murtha died from complications of his gall-bladder surgery. Pajamas Media sums up why nobody on the right respected him - corrupt, King of Pork, libelous, and so on.
But, to die from seemingly a routine surgery in the USA? This ain't Canada, nor are our US Docs employed by GB's NHS. True, death from the strain of surgery hits older people especially hard, but was there accidental neglect on the part of the surgeon?
Another oddity - I can't recall the few blogs on the right, which I read, as mentioning him as entering a hospital.
I feel sad for his family.
Update - The Pittsburgh-Post Gazette mentions
But, to die from seemingly a routine surgery in the USA? This ain't Canada, nor are our US Docs employed by GB's NHS. True, death from the strain of surgery hits older people especially hard, but was there accidental neglect on the part of the surgeon?
Another oddity - I can't recall the few blogs on the right, which I read, as mentioning him as entering a hospital.
I feel sad for his family.
Update - The Pittsburgh-Post Gazette mentions
According to a source close to Mr. Murtha -- confirming a report in Politico --
doctors inadvertently cut Mr. Murtha's intestine during the laparoscopic
surgery, causing an infection.
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