Corporate tax rates in the US are the highest in the world at 40%, forcing companies to move overseas, and we are supposed to raise them higher to fund massive welfare payments, including to "at least" 100,000,000 foreigners in other countries? How do they think that any of these companies will be able to survive, let alone prosper and hire more workers?
Congressional Democrats are looking at getting rid of 401K plans. Well, they will need to find a LOT of money from somewhere if they go into the "tax-and-spend" frenzy expected from an Obama win. I find it really scary when our representatives in congress speak about "not taking my money through higher taxes" as if it is an "investment by the government" where they are "giving" me money. Quote: "Rep. George Miller, D-Calif...“We’ve invested $80 billion into subsidizing this activity,” he said, referring to tax breaks allowed for 401(k) contributions and savings."
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Weekend political links
What Joe the Plumber Shows Us About the Left: In what kind of nation, do the media investigate critics more than candidates?
Cindy's lawyer responds to NYT attack. "It is worth noting that you have not employed your investigative assets looking into Michelle Obama. You have not tried to find Barack Obama’s drug dealer that he wrote about in his book, Dreams of My Father. Nor have you interviewed his poor relatives in Kenya and determined why Barack Obama has not rescued them. Thus, there is a terrific lack of balance here."
More Joe the Plumber Warning ... explicatives NOT deleted. Quote: You didn’t, unlike most of the other scandals that the Obamamedia have successfully buried, have to be a sad geek like me spending hours every day scouring obscure websites with even more obscure names to witness the crucifixion of Joe the Plumber. All you had to do was to turn on the evening news. And then you’d find yourself thinking “what’s up with this guy? Why do they go after him that hard? What the Hell did this ordinary guy-next-door plumber, somebody who’s just like me, do to earn that hatred and persecution?”, followed by the answer: “he dared question the Anointed One.”
WaPo's fantasy candidate. : There's never a "we know he would do this" because he "successfully championed legislation." There's never a "we know he's really committed to that" because "he risked his career by bucking his own party." Instead — as the WaPo again admits — "We had hoped, throughout this long campaign, to see more evidence that Mr. Obama might stand up to Democratic orthodoxy and end, as he said in his announcement speech, 'our chronic avoidance of tough decisions.'" Earth to WaPo: When you hope something, and it never comes true, that's called a "hoping in vain."
Cindy's lawyer responds to NYT attack. "It is worth noting that you have not employed your investigative assets looking into Michelle Obama. You have not tried to find Barack Obama’s drug dealer that he wrote about in his book, Dreams of My Father. Nor have you interviewed his poor relatives in Kenya and determined why Barack Obama has not rescued them. Thus, there is a terrific lack of balance here."
More Joe the Plumber Warning ... explicatives NOT deleted. Quote: You didn’t, unlike most of the other scandals that the Obamamedia have successfully buried, have to be a sad geek like me spending hours every day scouring obscure websites with even more obscure names to witness the crucifixion of Joe the Plumber. All you had to do was to turn on the evening news. And then you’d find yourself thinking “what’s up with this guy? Why do they go after him that hard? What the Hell did this ordinary guy-next-door plumber, somebody who’s just like me, do to earn that hatred and persecution?”, followed by the answer: “he dared question the Anointed One.”
WaPo's fantasy candidate. : There's never a "we know he would do this" because he "successfully championed legislation." There's never a "we know he's really committed to that" because "he risked his career by bucking his own party." Instead — as the WaPo again admits — "We had hoped, throughout this long campaign, to see more evidence that Mr. Obama might stand up to Democratic orthodoxy and end, as he said in his announcement speech, 'our chronic avoidance of tough decisions.'" Earth to WaPo: When you hope something, and it never comes true, that's called a "hoping in vain."
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Weekend energy links
Geothermal and solar energy projects being pursued by the military.
Solar power in Scotland.
Plastic solar cells being manufactured. They are being printed up on equipment that was previously used to make photographic film.
Wall Street Journal article on the most obvious items to be nationalized under an Obama regime. The energy consequences? "A tax-and-regulation scheme in the name of climate change is a top left-wing priority. Cap and trade would hand Congress trillions of dollars in new spending from the auction of carbon credits, which it would use to pick winners and losers in the energy business and across the economy. Huge chunks of GDP and millions of jobs would be at the mercy of Congress and a vast new global-warming bureaucracy. Without the GOP votes to help stage a filibuster, Senators from carbon-intensive states would have less ability to temper coastal liberals who answer to the green elites."
Oil prices are affecting Russia's economic viability ... LOW oil prices that is.
Self-Imposed Crisis? Quote: A root cause of this situation begs for an obvious remedy if the public can muster the political will to call for it. An abrupt turn away from the policy of seizing every opportunity to obstruct and discourage the supplying of fossil fuels might moderate a late 1970s style resurgence of the recent energy crisis, and with it, the monetary roller coaster ride that is devastating the retirement dreams of the present generation of Americans...
Solar power in Scotland.
Plastic solar cells being manufactured. They are being printed up on equipment that was previously used to make photographic film.
Wall Street Journal article on the most obvious items to be nationalized under an Obama regime. The energy consequences? "A tax-and-regulation scheme in the name of climate change is a top left-wing priority. Cap and trade would hand Congress trillions of dollars in new spending from the auction of carbon credits, which it would use to pick winners and losers in the energy business and across the economy. Huge chunks of GDP and millions of jobs would be at the mercy of Congress and a vast new global-warming bureaucracy. Without the GOP votes to help stage a filibuster, Senators from carbon-intensive states would have less ability to temper coastal liberals who answer to the green elites."
Oil prices are affecting Russia's economic viability ... LOW oil prices that is.
Self-Imposed Crisis? Quote: A root cause of this situation begs for an obvious remedy if the public can muster the political will to call for it. An abrupt turn away from the policy of seizing every opportunity to obstruct and discourage the supplying of fossil fuels might moderate a late 1970s style resurgence of the recent energy crisis, and with it, the monetary roller coaster ride that is devastating the retirement dreams of the present generation of Americans...
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Weekend links
Local currencies. An interesting article on local currencies that have been used in the past and their effects on the areas they were used.
The government is a big part of the market problem.
Investors' Real Fear: A Socialist Tsunami
On the Democratic show-trial being run in Alaska. As noted in the article: The Branchflower Report is a series of guess and insupportable conclusions drawn by exactly one guy, and it hasn't been approved or adopted or endorsed by so much as a single sub-committee of the Alaska Legislature, much less any kind of commission, court, jury, or other proper adjudicatory body.
How to ruin the economy.
Its what they do in Chicago... In summary: The list of things that are done in Chicago by politicians is virtually endless. What we can hope is that if the politician is elected, he is only a cynical manipulator of people’s hopes and fears and is not really a radical, America hating racist thug. ... A crook – that’s OK. After all, it’s the way things are done in Chicago.
SNL Skit, uneditied. Actually, I had expected not to like this. It is funny.
A letter from McCain and 20 other Senators in 2006 predicting the current financial meltdown if changes were not made to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. The Democrats defeated the changes on the floor of the Senate and continued to use Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae as their personal slush fund. And as predicted, the problems developed.
The government is a big part of the market problem.
Investors' Real Fear: A Socialist Tsunami
On the Democratic show-trial being run in Alaska. As noted in the article: The Branchflower Report is a series of guess and insupportable conclusions drawn by exactly one guy, and it hasn't been approved or adopted or endorsed by so much as a single sub-committee of the Alaska Legislature, much less any kind of commission, court, jury, or other proper adjudicatory body.
How to ruin the economy.
Its what they do in Chicago... In summary: The list of things that are done in Chicago by politicians is virtually endless. What we can hope is that if the politician is elected, he is only a cynical manipulator of people’s hopes and fears and is not really a radical, America hating racist thug. ... A crook – that’s OK. After all, it’s the way things are done in Chicago.
SNL Skit, uneditied. Actually, I had expected not to like this. It is funny.
A letter from McCain and 20 other Senators in 2006 predicting the current financial meltdown if changes were not made to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. The Democrats defeated the changes on the floor of the Senate and continued to use Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae as their personal slush fund. And as predicted, the problems developed.
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Weekend links
The End of an Era: But what makes this particular economic crisis so appalling, at least from this vantage point, is the sheer scumminess, corruption, short-sightedness and general incompetence of everyone involved. At least in the business world, especially in the take-no-prisoners world of high-tech that kind of venality and ineptitude either gets you fired or kills the company; by comparison, in Washington, it puts you in charge of the recovery effort.
And Here’s The Associated (with terrorists) Press’ Spin on the Obama and Ayers. With commentary of course.
And a story on another of Obama's buddies:
Did Rezko pay for Blagojevich's house rehab?: Federal investigators are zeroing in on whether Tony Rezko paid for all or part of a $90,000 rehab of Gov. Blagojevich's Northwest Side bungalow as the corruption probe of the state's first family accelerates.
Day by Day cartoon....
High-Efficiency Generators for Hybrid Vehicles. Free-piston engines could be used to generate electricity as efficiently as, and less expensively than, fuel cells.
Hitler Youth Video. And for comparison, Obama youth.
Boy Suspended for Wearing Anti-Obama T-Shirt. No surprise that the schools are hot beds of liberal correctness. Do you think he would have been suspended for wearing a pro-Obama shirt?
Biden's Boners from Powerline.
And some economics links. The economists are not happy with this ill-considered bailout.
here and here and here and here.
On price gouging and gasoline lines.
And Here’s The Associated (with terrorists) Press’ Spin on the Obama and Ayers. With commentary of course.
And a story on another of Obama's buddies:
Did Rezko pay for Blagojevich's house rehab?: Federal investigators are zeroing in on whether Tony Rezko paid for all or part of a $90,000 rehab of Gov. Blagojevich's Northwest Side bungalow as the corruption probe of the state's first family accelerates.
Day by Day cartoon....
High-Efficiency Generators for Hybrid Vehicles. Free-piston engines could be used to generate electricity as efficiently as, and less expensively than, fuel cells.
Hitler Youth Video. And for comparison, Obama youth.
Boy Suspended for Wearing Anti-Obama T-Shirt. No surprise that the schools are hot beds of liberal correctness. Do you think he would have been suspended for wearing a pro-Obama shirt?
Biden's Boners from Powerline.
And some economics links. The economists are not happy with this ill-considered bailout.
here and here and here and here.
On price gouging and gasoline lines.
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