All Posts Tagged With: "Obama"
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 | ContinuedThe Speech Obama Should Have Given
Guess which candidate for the Presidency said this: “Our Federal extravagance and improvidence bear a double evil; first, our people and our businesses cannot carry these excessive burdens of taxation; second, our credit structure is impaired by the unorthodox Federal financing made necessary by the unprecedented magnitude of these deficits.” Here’s a hint: In the [...]
12Sep2011 | Lawrence W. Reed | 5 comments | ContinuedThe Charade
The best phrase to sum up Barack Obama’s presidency is not “African anticolonial socialist” but “American Progressive corporatist.”
15Oct2010 | Sheldon Richman | 15 comments | ContinuedPresidential Hubris
“If we were going to spend $700 billion, it seems it would be wiser having that $700 billion going to folks who would spend that money right away.” — Barack Obama
8Oct2010 | Sheldon Richman | 10 comments | ContinuedInvisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal
“He who wants to improve conditions must propagate a new mentality, not merely a new institution.” –Ludwig von Mises, New York Times, January 1942 Invisible Hands by Kim Phillips-Fein, professor of American history at New York University’s Gallatin School, is a well-researched and thorough account of resistance to government economic domination. It’s also a veritable [...]
24Feb2010 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 3 comments | ContinuedProducing Jobs: Thoughts on Obama’s Plan for Small Businesses
Too many policy boulders are being dropped in the water. One can hardly determine the effects of one before another one is thrown in the pool.
9Feb2010 | Bruce Yandle | 10 comments | ContinuedTGIF: Obama and the Public
Broken or not, government at the moment is not inspiring confidence in the majority of people. That’s good news for those who look to government for neither inspiration nor solutions (to problems it itself has created). There’s no more urgent task that to fan the flames of political cynicism, emphasizing that what’s wrong with health [...]
5Feb2010 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedObama and the Public
Broken or not, government at the moment is not inspiring confidence in the majority of people. That’s good news for those who look to government for neither inspiration nor solutions.
5Feb2010 | Sheldon Richman | 7 comments | ContinuedTGIF: The State of Obama’s Union
Despite what some popular right-wing talk-show hosts claim, Barack Obama is not pushing Marxism, revolutionary or otherwise. He’s pushing good old American progressive-corporate elitism. Read TGIF here.
30Jan2010 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedTransfer Machine
“The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul,” George Bernard Shaw once said. For a socialist Shaw demonstrated good sense with that quotation. Unfortunately, America has become a laboratory in which his hypothesis is being tested. The theory of government I was taught says that government provides [...]
1Jan2010 | John Stossel | 7 comments | ContinuedCash for Clunkers Was a Loser
President Obama’s Cash for Clunkers program, inspired by the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act, ended August 25, 2009. As I drove through a major shopping area that day, I passed a large and highly successful Toyota dealer. Just past the sparkling showroom and sparsely populated lot of new cars, “clunkers” sat in a [...]
18Nov2009 | Bruce Yandle | 5 comments | ContinuedArt Needs No State Subsidies
It’s feeding time again, and artists and cultural groups are lining up at the trough. The bailout package approved by Congress in February threw another $50 million at the arts. For the better part of the past year, music impresario Quincy Jones beseeched Barack Obama to add a secretary of arts to his cabinet. In [...]
23Oct2009 | Bruce Edward Walker | 1 comment | ContinuedStealth Expansion of Government Power
The government of the United States spent the year debating major new undertakings, ranging from health care to climate change to energy development to tax reform. Yet a far more fundamental shift, in the form of a rapid and pervasive expansion of government power over the private sector of the economy, has been going on [...]
23Oct2009 | Murray Weidenbaum | 1 comment | ContinuedOld, Bold Futility
In economic analysis and policy formulation, profundity is not to be confused with complexity. And simple logic is not the same as simplicity. Reliance in thought and communication on shortcut slogans and mottos yields not solution but fiasco. With employment slumping, many would have us believe in a simplistic “bold economic recovery program.” With vast [...]
23Oct2009 | and William R. Allen | 1 comment | ContinuedThe “I Hate the Poor” Act of 2009
So I was shaving the other day, and the man on the morning talk radio show was on a roll. Cash for Clunkers was being temporarily shut down, or so declared the PR flack in the Department of Waste that administers the program, and Talk Show Guy thought this taught great lessons. “This was a good program! [...]
23Oct2009 | Christopher Westley | 4 comments | ContinuedGovernment Motors
Government Motors by Michael Heberling Michael Heberling (mheber01@baker.edu) is president of the Baker College Center for Graduate Studies in Flint, Michigan. If Washington owns it, it just can’t keep its hands off. —Senator Lamar Alexander Twenty-five years ago President Reagan told auto workers in Orion, Michigan, “You’ve demonstrated when the chips are down, what people [...]
23Oct2009 | Michael Heberling | 6 comments | ContinuedWar Is Peace
President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.We’ve come a long way since Frederic Passy.
9Oct2009 | Sheldon Richman | 2 comments | Continued-
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