Category Archives: Economy
Light Bulb Ban
It’s 2014 and, thanks to President Bush, the creation of incandescent light bulbs is now banned.
Will mercury contamination from EPA mandated fluorescent lightbulbs become the lead paint issue of the future?
Light Bulb Ban
A story in the Washington Examiner blames the light bulb ban on a conspiracy between big makers of the low margin bulbs and government.
Christmas Delivery
Some companies like Amazon couldn’t live up to last minute shopping promises for Christmas Delivery and now UPS is taking the heat. Much to the delight of the Postal Service.
Christmas Delivery
Where are the Amazon Drones when you need em?
Individual Mandate Unravels
The latest Friday document dump featured another ObamaCare proclamation. If your insurance was canceled because it was a substandard bad apple you can buy another substandard bad apple plan. Or you can take a one year break from the individual mandate and go without.
The WSJ headlined, “Obama Repeals ObamaCare”
Dick Morris claims ObamaCare is dead because the unraveling will accelerate next year when group plans are canceled.
National Icon Killing Wind Farms
It’s open season on national icons like the bald eagle – if you’re a wind farm.
National Icon Killing Wind Farms
According to David Yarnold, president of the National Audubon Society, the Obama administration has issued a “blank check” to kill eagles and other flying species that get in the way of wind turbines. You can read the NYT story here.
Unemployment Benefits
President Obama wants to increase unemployment benefits. Not just to help the unemployed, but to grow the economy.
Unemployment insurance is one of the most effective ways there is to boost our economy.
Unemployment Benefit
The science tells him that every dollar spent on unemployment creates $1.80 in growth. The WSJ calls this:
…the theory that you can increase employment by paying more people not to work…If that theory worked, the government should pay everyone not to work.
This is the same theory that told him in his first term that a trillion dollar stimulus would be the most effective tool there is to boost our economy.
Here’s a short piece from Commentary that ties together government’s self-interest in the belief in Keynesian economics and global warming.
