All Posts Tagged With: "Obama"
If You Really Love Volunteers, Mr. Obama . . .
Barack Obama gave volunteerism a big boost early this year, visiting service centers on Martin Luther King Day, greeting volunteers, and working alongside them. “Everybody’s got to be involved,” he said. “If we’re waiting for somebody else to do something, it never gets done. We’re going to have to take responsibility, all of us.” These [...]
23Sep2009 | James L. Payne | 1 comment | ContinuedArrogance
It’s crazy for a group of mere mortals to try to design 15 percent of the U.S. economy. It’s even crazier to do it in a few months. Yet that is what some members of Congress presumed to do. They intended, as the New York Times put it, “to reinvent the nation’s health care system.” [...]
23Sep2009 | John Stossel | 17 comments | ContinuedThe Real Meaning of Privilege
“They live in an expensive mansion, fly first-class to foreign countries, and eat at the finest restaurants. They send their kids to private schools. They’re so privileged.” How often have you heard some variant of the lines above? I’d bet it’s a lot. Yet, typically, the word “privileged” is inaccurate. We certainly all know or [...]
23Sep2009 | David R. Henderson | 13 comments | ContinuedObama’s Healthcare Dishonesty
The Christian Science Monitor today published my op-ed on the fundamental dishonesty of President Obama’s healthcare proposals. Read “Forcing insurance companies to cover preexisting conditions is immoral” here.
10Sep2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedObama's Message to Kids
From Barack Obama’s speech to schoolchildren, which even many conservatives praised: And even when you’re struggling, even when you’re discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you — don’t ever give up on yourself. Because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country.
9Sep2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedTransforming America: The Bush-Obama Stimulus Programs
George W. Bush’s and Barack Obama’s “stimulus” programs will permanently transform the American economy. The market-based system that has produced unprecedented prosperity relies on profit and loss, which rewards individuals and firms that add value to the economy and penalizes those that detract value. The various stimulus programs undermine that system. My discussion will focus [...]
19Aug2009 | Randall G. Holcombe | 13 comments | ContinuedWhat Is Seen and What Is Unseen: Government “Job Creation”
How can Obama and his economic advisers know what kinds of jobs will position our economy to “lead the world” in the long term? Indeed, how can we expect anyone to know what kinds of jobs will be able to offer such a guarantee of wealth and security, considering the enormous complexity of our world?
10Jun2009 | Larissa Price | 33 comments | ContinuedIn Praise of Tax Havens
According to stereotypes, tax havens are little islands in the Caribbean, and indeed that’s true of some of the world’s premiere offshore centers. But to be more accurate, a tax haven is any jurisdiction that satisfies two criteria: First, its tax laws are attractive to global investors and entrepreneurs, and second, it protects its fiscal sovereignty by choosing not to enforce the bad tax laws of other nations, at least when they are trying to tax economic activity outside their borders. This means, of course, that individuals and businesses from high-tax nations have the option of using those jurisdictions as havens against excessive taxation.
10Jun2009 | Daniel Mitchell | 6 comments | ContinuedWhat's Hope Got to Do with It?
People get upset if they think you don’t hope Barack Obama succeeds in fixing the economy. Any freedom advocate hopes he discovers what it would take for the economy to recover permanently: the repeal of taxes, spending programs, regulations, and the Federal Reserve Act — in other words, an overall and dramatic reduction in the [...]
1May2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedNo More Something for Nothing
Barack Obama says we shouldn’t expect something for nothing. Fine — many of us don’t want the “something” anyway. Now when can we put an end to nothing for something?Cross-posted at Free Association.
20Mar2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedObama's Uninformed Optimism
President Obama is optimistic that “We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before.” That and $5 will get you coffee at Starbucks — until inflation kicks in.In his appearance before Congress, Obama demonstrated he can give a speech. Big deal. We already knew that. Theatrics aside, [...]
1Mar2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedInflation as Income Distribution
The Federal Reserve has been pumping hundreds of billions of newly created dollars into “the economy.” Much of that money has been sent to Wall Street to bailout large, struggling firms. But that’s just the beginning. President-elect Obama says that since he needs to “stimulate the economy” we can look forward to trillion-dollar budget deficits [...]
9Jan2009 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | Continued-
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