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Political fuzzy math. Courtesy of the POTUS.
Repost from http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/obamas_deficit_the_devil_made.htmlOctober 02, 2009
Obama’s Deficit: The Devil Made Me Do It
By Jon N. Hall
Ever since his inauguration, President Obama has said that he “inherited” the federal budget deficit from his predecessor. But immediately upon taking office, Obama signed two new bills, the $787B stimulus and the $410B omnibus, that together about equal the $1.2T [...]
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Sounds familiar…
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it.”
Frederic Bastiat
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Milton Friedman Channels Manly
Seriously though, he’s pretty much my hero. In all my study of economics on the way to my degree he was the individual who influenced me the most.
The fact that he OWNS socialist moonbat Donahue is just icing on the cake.
Phil using the word “Maldistribution” gives his position away immediately.
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Nice one LBJ, right there with you.
A quote from LBJ:
‘You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.’
- Lyndon Johnson
Not that I see any benefits to single payer, rationed health care run by a [...]
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Interesting Reading.
The things you don’t read about Barack Obama
Sat. May 2 – 5:46 AM
Will Rogers famously pleaded that all he knew was what he read in the papers. If all a person knew of Barack Obama’s first 100 days as president was what they read of them in this newspaper, it would seem to be a [...]
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A Friend’s response to what he wants his government to be…
Couldn’t have said it better myself. I don’t agree with everything but the general principle that goverment is here to secure our rights and stay out of our way is dead on.
Manly
From Tcoverride.
“We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the [...]
Another Great Quote
“My definition of social justice: those who refuse to work deserve to go hungry.”
Manly
Best Quote Ever
It pretty much sums up my feelings on the current trend of entitlement and wealth envy.
Manly
“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first [...]
Windfall Profit Taxes – A Primer
The post below is lifted from the Wall Street Journal. If you don’t understand how windfall profit taxes work (especially when used on oil companies) you should give this one a read.
This has to be in the top 10 of worst ideas ever. There is an oil supply problem, not a profit problem [...]
This pretty much sums up how I feel…
I found this interesting.
The quote below is from a book titled “The Bad Boy of Baltimore” which is a biography of H.L. Mencken by Marion Rodgers.
Page 409 reads:
By the mid-1930′s, thanks to the New Deal, all that self-reliance had changed, prompting Mencken to declare: ‘There is no genuine justice in any scheme of [...]
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Here the candidates go, more housing crisis handouts.
From the WSJ:
Note the section regarding changing the terms of existing mortgage contracts. Thank God this will end up in court immediately (as well it should). I have faith that the Supreme Court would strike this down quickly.
The top three Democratic candidates have called for various measures that move [...]
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Come on Mike, get a clue.
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I can’t even fathom how someone could question the legitimacy of evolution these days. The evidence is simply overwhelming.
The quote that blows me away is:
Huckabee: “I just can’t believe creation is an accident”
The strength of the natural system is precisely these “accidents”. I.E. random [...]
An interesting read.
Below is a re-post of an article that appeared in the Stanford Review and was written by Grant Everett Starrett.
It sums up a lot of how I feel about the war and partisanship in general. While our reasoning for being in Iraq can be questioned or debated, in no way should we debate the [...]
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Global Warming Debate
Don’t get me wrong, I am all for conservation of natural resources and reductions in our fossil fuel use (If anything, only to reduce our dependence on foreign oil).
I would love to be able to drive a car that emits NOTHING (other than maybe pure water). However, at this time this is not economically [...]
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You might as well have taken the words out of my mouth.