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So much for the idea that the cool, conceited, competence of Obama and his team would raise our standing in the world and make our allies respect us again. Yeesh, even Italy is lecturing us about fiscal discipline, and Italy’s debt exceeds its gross national product. “If the problem is an excess of debt, the [...]
President Obama specifically asked Representative Schock’s constituents to contact Schock to urge him to vote for the bill. It was a total failure:
via Tom Smith at The Right Coast, who labels it, “more gloom and doom.”
Today’s New York Post was just depressing on pension and tax issues. First, in YOU HURT, THEY PROSPER, an editorial predicted a massive tax hike to hit the state: “Is it fair to ask the people who make more to pay a little bit more in this time of crisis?” he wondered last week, arguing [...]
Mayor Bloomberg has an opinion article in today’s Daily News offering a rather weak reform of NYC public employee pensions: Pensions. New York City offers full retirement benefits after only 20 years of service for uniformed workers. In this day and age, with people living longer, taxpayers cannot afford to continue hiring workers who will [...]
Senator Tom Coburn published his remarks on the stimulus bill. The entire thing is worthwhile, but the section listing much of the nonsense in it is especially notable: I am going to wind up here and finish, but I wanted to spend some time to make sure the American people know what is in this [...]
From a Blog at the Chicago Tribune. Mayor Richard Daley said today Chicago has compiled a wish list of “shovel-ready projects” to spend federal economic stimulus funds on should Congress approve a plan. Unlike hundreds of other cities, however, Daley said Chicago won’t make its list public. “Yes, we do, we have our list, we’ve [...]
Worse than doing nothing: President Obama’s economic recovery package will actually hurt the economy more in the long run than if he were to do nothing, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday. CBO, the official scorekeepers for legislation, said the House and Senate bills will help in the short term but result in so [...]
via The Anchoress. Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House. One is from Chicago, another is from Tennessee, and the third is from Minnesota. All three go with a White House official to examine the fence. The Minnesota contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then [...]
Jim Geraghty makes a solid point about Rangel, another tax-cheating liberal Democrat: If Tom Daschle’s failure to pay taxes was enough to keep him out of the job of Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Nancy Killefer’s failure to pay taxes was enough to keep her out of the job of chief performance officer, [...]
