I like most of John Mauldin’s stuff. This one was interesting and disturbing enough to share. What think/say ye? ==== A Lost Generation By John Mauldin | Jul 27, 2013 It is pretty well established that a tax increase, especially an income tax increase, will have an immediate negative effect on the economy, with a multiplier of between 1 and 3 depending upon whose... Read more
Archive for the ‘Obama’ Category
Your Carbonated President
June 28 | Posted by mrossol | Global Warming, ObamaI never cease to struggle to understand the logic in BHO’s mind. ========= President Obama’s climate speech on Tuesday was grandiose even for him, but its surreal nature was its particular hallmark. Some 12 million Americans still can’t find work, real wages have fallen for five years, three-fourths of Americans now live paycheck to check, and the economy continues to plod along... Read more
Portrait in Respect
June 25 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaYeh? Well, its George Bush’s fault!” =========== ‘One of the things I intend to do as President is restore America’s standing in the world. We are less respected now than we were eight years ago or even four years ago.” — Barack Obama, first presidential debate, September 26, 2008. The Obama Administration wants the world to know that it cares very deeply about bringing... Read more
The Age of American Impotence
June 24 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, The Leftor… “Obama isn’t having enough dialog with the ‘other side’.” Or, … “Moscow must be trembling…” =========== At this writing, Edward J. Snowden, the fugitive National Security Agency contractor indicted on espionage charges, is in Moscow, where Vladimir Putin’s spokesman insists his government is powerless to detain him. “We have nothing to do with this story,” says Dmitri Peskov. “I don’t approve... Read more
Noonan: Privacy Isn’t All We’re Losing
June 16 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big Govt, Noonan, ObamaAlways a good read. ======= The U.S. surveillance state as outlined and explained by Edward Snowden is not worth the price. Its size, scope and intrusiveness, its ability to target and monitor American citizens, its essential unaccountability—all these things are extreme. The purpose of the surveillance is enhanced security, a necessary goal to say the least. The price is a now formal and... Read more
