All Posts Tagged With: "infrastructure spending"
Government the Job Killer
President Obama says government will have to build the nation out of the economic trough. “We’re the country that built the intercontinental railroad,” Obama says. “So how can we now sit back and let China build the best railroads?” I guess Obama doesn’t know that the transcontinental railroad was a Solyndra-like Big Government scandal. The [...]
4Jan2012 | John Stossel | 4 comments | ContinuedScientism and the Great Power Nexus
President Obama wants to create jobs. His political life depends on it. So the President recently used the bully pulpit to propose a “jobs” bill that would include heavy spending on infrastructure. Journalists wanted to know what the bill would do. They turned to economists. These experts, armed with the most sophisticated methods available, gave [...]
30Nov2011 | Max Borders | 5 comments | ContinuedMore Government Action Needed for Job Recovery?
Would it come as a shock to hear one of the best-known apologists for government intervention in the economy admitting that it hasn’t worked (so far)? This is exactly what Nobel Prize-winning economist and uber-Keynesian Paul Krugman does in a New York Times column, stating, “[W]e are not now and have never been on the [...]
26Oct2011 | Tyler Watts | 1 comment | ContinuedGrowing Government Ensures “National Greatness”?
There is widespread belief among politicians, public officials, and pundits that if government doesn’t give us the seeds, nothing will grow. A friend of mine served on our city’s legislative council for eight years. During that time he often heard—in defense of tax-funded business incentives—“If we don’t do something, nothing will happen.” The same belief [...]
21Sep2011 | Arthur E. Foulkes | 6 comments | ContinuedWho Killed the Constitution? The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush
There have now been many conservative and libertarian books covering the demise of American liberty under the U.S. Constitution, so if you don’t think you need to read another one, I understand. Still, if that’s what you think, you’re wrong. The latest entry in the genre, Thomas Woods and Kevin Gutzman’s Who Killed the Constitution?, [...]
17Jun2009 | Jacob H. Huebert | 1 comment | Continued-
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