Is he another Eric Holder?
I think that history will record that this administration had a lot of lying politicized hacks in the cabinet.
Category Archives: Economics
“You Didn’t Build That”
As Glenn says:
The key policy implication is that if he can convince enough people that you didn’t earn your success, he’ll face less opposition when he tries to take the fruits of your success for himself. And that’s what this whole “you didn’t build it” thing is about. I’m not taking your property away — it was really mine all along!
Yup.
Packed With Pork
The outrageous farm bill.
Time to clean up DC, on both sides of the aisle. Just a little over three months until our next opportunity.
Government Motors
The taxpayer loss on GM hits $35B.
Does Obama really want to run on this issue? Romney should make it clear that he didn’t save the auto industry — he saved the UAW. Temporarily.
[Update a while later]
“This isn’t investing. This is welfare.”
The Context
…is worse than the quote.
It may be that when historians discuss this election, they’ll point to that untelepromptered gaffe as the moment that Obama lost the election.
The Book Of Barack
Some readings.
Obama’s “Gaffe”
Some history and context. It’s nothing new. He was raised as a Marxist, and he’s never changed.
[Afternoon update]
No, Adam Gopnik, Adam Smith would not have agreed with Barack Obama.
“You Didn’t Build That”
Obama’s latest plagiarism from Atlas Shrugged is providing a lot of graphical fodder. And he did earn that. More devastating, I think, was Romney’s response.
[Update a while later]
The ultimate takedown of Obama’s speech:
When Obama implied at the Roanoke, Virginia rally that some businessmen refuse to pay for public works from which they benefit, he presented a thesis which, like a three-legged stool, relies on three assumptions that must all be true for the argument to remain standing:
1. That the public programs he mentioned in his speech constitute a significant portion of the federal budget;
2. That business owners don’t already pay far more than their fair share of these expenses; and
3. That these specific public benefits are a federal issue, rather than a local issue.If any of these legs fails, then the whole argument collapses.
And all of them fail. As he notes, it’s significant because it really was revealing, and an Atlas Shrugged moment.
[Update late morning]
It’s a miracle!
The Dependency Agenda
The latest from Bill Whittle (yes, I am back in LA, got in late last night from Silicon Valley).
Going Paleo
The government has been a disaster for our health. And as he points out, it’s no coincidence that people who eat paleo tend to be libertarian. There’s a good reason for it.