Category Archives: stoopid government

The Government should do more…

LOL… Great. More laws, more regulations, less freedom and lower standard of living. Is there anything government can’t do? Pathetic.

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Fast & Furious: CBS Reporter tries to do her job

Read how that went. A whole lotta screamin’ going on. Now there’s an MSM reporter that needs our support. “They say the Washington Post is reasonable, the LA Times is reasonable, the New York Times is reasonable, I’m the only … Continue reading

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Medicare and Prescription Drug abuse

Report on Medicare Cites Prescription Drug Abuse And Progressives want the government running Healthcare. Hip Hip Hooray. 

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“That cost does not include the economic impact of the regulations themselves.”

Good grief. Honestly, this is beyond the theatre of the absurd.

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“After we got the loan guarantee, they were just spending money left and right.”

One word: Solyndra. What a way to run a company. Which brings us to the $16 muffin, the tip of the iceberg. The lesson of government waste, whether on $16 muffins or $535 million loan guarantees to solar power companies … Continue reading

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Fast and Furious

The gift that keeps on killing: Report: At least 200 murders in Mexico now linked to Fast & Furious weapons

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Economics: Marginal Cost pricing

But everyone cannot be the marginal cost consumer. Someone has to cover things like development costs. Netflix, prescription drugs, Medicare. Take your pick. h/t to Instapundit.

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Crony Capitalism Obama Style

Betsy summarizes the Solyndra situation and the deserved black eye the administration is receiving. I like this quote from Jennifer Rubin… The story is a dangerous one for the Obama administration for multiple reasons. First, it is in fact the … Continue reading

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You have to ask?

Is US becoming regulation nation?

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Uncle Sam’s IOUs Can’t Save Social Security

Jeff Jacoby reviews Social Security funding. But the trust fund’s assets are an illusion. Social Security doesn’t own $2.6 trillion in gold bars or real estate or shares of Google. All it has are Treasury IOUs. Those IOUs represent $2.6 … Continue reading

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The powers of eminent domain to seize property

. . . the city’s project has been a failure, with 91 acres of waterfront property sitting there empty and overgrown by weeds. Now, we learn from the local newspaper, The Day, that following the hurricane Irene, the city has … Continue reading

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Alcoholic drivers

This would be truck drivers. BUDGET CUT! Who in the hell makes this stuff up? Alcoholism is classified as a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the suit maintains, and therefore employees cannot be prohibited even from driving 18 … Continue reading

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And you want more government?

Farmageddon This documentary illustrates the plight of the organic farmer, specifically the organic dairy farmer. If a dairy farmer wants to sell raw milk, they will be run out of business and many times imprisoned by the federal bureaucracy. The … Continue reading

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Big projects

The high speed rail to nowhere. Perhaps “Thinking Big” isn’t such a grand idea.

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A Year long sting

for unpastuerized milk and cheese?OK, after heads roll at the ATF, these guys can be next. The Food and Drug Administration contends raw milk can carry harmful bacteria such as salmonella, E. coli and listeria. It’s lawful to manufacture and … Continue reading

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The Six Political Illusions

From the book Six Political Illusions A Primer on Government for Idealists Fed Up with History Repeating Itself… • The Philanthropic Illusion: the idea that government has money of its own. • The Voluntary Illusion: the impulse to want to … Continue reading

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The Deficit is Worse than we Think

says Lawrence Lindsey in todays Wall Street Journal. In a nutshell the issues are: 1. Normalization of interest rates increasing the cost of borrowing 2. Over optimistic projections of growth 3. Obamacare: Employers dumping their health plans and sending their … Continue reading

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I mean, that’s worse than “It was Turbo Tax that done it.”

states Glenn Reynolds. Oil release not political. Made me LOL. How stoopid does Geithner think we are? How shallow does Geithner want to look to the American public. Of course, if we’re as stoopid as he apparently thinks we are, … Continue reading

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FBI snooping

Can you spell troubling? Of course, it’s on Faux news so it’s probably just BS anyway.

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Corn inventories at lowest level since Dust Bowl days

Wonder why? The problem here is the mandate, which assumes that corn — which is used in pretty much everything from plastics to baby powder to animal feed — will continue to see record yields. I live and grew up … Continue reading

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