Monday, July 27, 2009

Is there any doubt these folks deserve to be starved of cash???

Not A Single Cent More!  Ever!  Ever!!!

Conyers Sees No Point in Members Reading 1,000-Page Health Care Bill--Unless They Have 2 Lawyers to Interpret It for Them


Monday, July 27, 2009
By Nicholas Ballasy, Video Reporter

(CNSNews.com) - During his speech at a National Press Club luncheon, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Democratic Congressman John Conyers (D-Mich.), questioned the point of lawmakers reading the health care bill.

“I love these members, they get up and say, ‘Read the bill,’” said Conyers.

“What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?”

 

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Forbes.com - Magazine Article

I have heard this was coming from some of our past exchange student sons and daughters.  It's our crystal ball into the future!

Forbes.com - Magazine Article

Sweden's Public Downsizing
Anita Raghavan, 08.03.09, 12:00 AM ET

Think the answer to America's problems is bigger government? Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg has seen the result up close and says it's not pretty for the economy or investors.

Anders Borg has a message for those who look to government to take over health care, rescue the financial system and run troubled corporations: I have seen the future--and it doesn't work.

Monday, July 20, 2009

Bailouts could cost U.S. $23 trillion

Wow!!

 

Bailouts could cost U.S. $23 trillion

A series of bailouts, bank rescues and other economic lifelines could end up costing the federal government as much as $23 trillion, the U.S. government’s watchdog over the effort says – a staggering amount that is nearly double the nation’s entire economic output for a year.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

The Small Business Surtax - WSJ.com

Why should anyone be surprised the Democrats are going to substantially raise taxes - especially on the small business owner.  It's what they do.

 

The Small Business Surtax - WSJ.com

The Obama Democrats pick income redistribution over job creation and economic growth.

Jason Furman owes an apology to Michael Boskin, the Stanford economist who wrote a year ago on these pages that Barack Obama would raise American income tax rates nearly to 60%. Mr. Furman, then in the Obama campaign and now at the White House, claimed this was wrong and that Democrats would merely raise taxes back to their Clinton-era level.

House Democrats are now proving that Mr. Boskin had it right, and before it's over even he may have underestimated how high taxes will go. In the middle of a recession and with rising unemployment, Democrats have been letting it leak that they want to raise U.S. tax rates higher than they've been in nearly 30 years in order to finance government health care.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

CNSNews.com - Federal Government Was Culprit in Housing and Economic Crisis, Says Congressional Report

This has  been common knowledge since 2001 and Bush’s first budget proposal to congress.  Time for Franks to do a little time!

CNSNews.com - Federal Government Was Culprit in Housing and Economic Crisis, Says Congressional Report


Wednesday, July 08, 2009
By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer


Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. (AP Photo)

Washington (CNSNews.com) – Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were the chief culprits in the housing crisis because they encouraged people who could not afford payments to borrow money, according to a congressional report released Tuesday.

 

CNSNews.com - Federal Government Was Culprit in Housing and Economic Crisis, Says Congressional Report

This has  been common knowledge since 2001 and Bush’s first budget proposal to congress.  Time for Franks to do a little time!

CNSNews.com - Federal Government Was Culprit in Housing and Economic Crisis, Says Congressional Report


Wednesday, July 08, 2009
By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer


Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. (AP Photo)

Washington (CNSNews.com) – Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were the chief culprits in the housing crisis because they encouraged people who could not afford payments to borrow money, according to a congressional report released Tuesday.

 

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

"Tyrannosaurus Debt" ~ Schoolhouse Rock

Perhaps a cartoon would be understandable to our Congressmen.

What a terrific job!!!

The Costs of the Cap-and-Trade Bill

The article speaks for itself.  Read it all.

 

The Costs of the Cap and Trade Bill

By Robert Zubrin
Special to Roll Call

July 1, 2009, 9:45 a.m.

On June 25, the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate stabilization act, which would institute a cap-and-trade system to restrict Americans’ carbon emissions. While proponents of the bill have sought to argue that the costs of such a system would be negligible, nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, the bill proposes a massive and highly regressive tax on the U.S. economy, and could potentially cause not only extensive business failures, unemployment and privation within our borders, but starvation among poorer populations elsewhere.