Happy Halloween! Wanna hear something really scary? In August of 2009 I found myself sitting on the dock of a family fishing camp in South Louisiana chatting with my relatives about the first 8 months of the Obama regime. The general feeling was one of frustration that, as many of us predicted, Obama turned out… Continue reading The Coming Pandemic of 2028
Category: Economy
The Revenge of the Buzzwords (Part 1: Conspicuous Consumption)
After 50 years in Government Joe Biden, much like his party, doesn’t have any new ideas. And so, Ole Joe got the band back together and now he’s dutifully playing all the old hits, massaging all the Leftist erogenous zones in the same way The Stones belt out a carefully curated list of the same… Continue reading The Revenge of the Buzzwords (Part 1: Conspicuous Consumption)
Normalizing $6 Trillion budgets… what could go wrong?
Joe Biden has proposed a $6 Trillion budget for next year… it’ll wind up being more than 6T, but let’s take him at his word for the purposes of this discussion. That’s a lot of money, Joe! But don’t worry you guys, Ole Joe promises that our deficit will “only” be $1.8 Trillion this year,… Continue reading Normalizing $6 Trillion budgets… what could go wrong?
The “Welfare Queen” goes mainstream
In the 70’s and 80’s, folks on the side of fiscal and personal responsibility tried to make the argument against a massive Welfare State by discussing the idea of incentives. It was argued that if you pay people not to work, they won’t work. And if you, say, pay people to have children outside of… Continue reading The “Welfare Queen” goes mainstream
Joe Biden’s coming Inflation “solution”
At some point Joe Biden is going to have to realize that the Inflation sparked by his profligate spending and deep misunderstanding of the underpinnings of our Economy is causing real problems for the implementation of his agenda, to say nothing of his re-election, and he’s going to decide that he has to do something… Continue reading Joe Biden’s coming Inflation “solution”
Today’s “surprising” jobs numbers
I remember sitting on a dock at a fishing camp in Southern Louisiana just after Barack Obama won in 2008 chatting politics with some members of my extended family. None of us had voted for Obama and we all had hopes that the GOP would regroup and take the House in 2010 and maybe the… Continue reading Today’s “surprising” jobs numbers
Flashback Friday (Chris Christie edition)
Hugh Hewitt was handicapping the 2024 GOP Primary on Thursday and put Chris Christie in his top four. Now I’m a Chris Christie fan going way back… he was Ron DeSantis before Ron DeSantis…. a beefy straight-talker with a funny accent who liked to throw haymakers at reporters. What’s not to love? One of the… Continue reading Flashback Friday (Chris Christie edition)
Politcal Doublespeak
You know how the world’s most oppressive societies always manage to get the word “Democratic” into their country names, like the German Democratic Republic or the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea? I thought of that while reading this headline… “Biden and Yellen… pursuing $1.9 trillion plan for full employment.” I’m not sure I see how… Continue reading Politcal Doublespeak
Trump 2024?
Could Trump come back and win again? That’s the question everyone is asking, right? And that’s at the heart of what’s really going on with the latest version of Trumpeachment, isn’t it? What if he comes back? (gulp!) Look I have no idea if Trump will be back, or if he does come back, if… Continue reading Trump 2024?