I’d prefer that rather than talking about a separation of church and state we could work on separating business from the state.
The president said the bill will spark a “clean energy transformation” of the U.S. economy and “make possible the creation of millions of new jobs.”
“Make no mistake,” he emphasized. “This is a jobs bill.”
So claimed President Obama in an appearance today in the Rose Garden. Technically, the claim is true. If the government funds so-called “clean energy”…
According to WSJ’s Thomas Frank, the union-backed bill known as “card check” is dead. If so, that’s great news for American workers, who have been manipulated by our government and unions for all too long into giving up their dignity and their very humanity in exchange for what amounts to corporate slavery.
Right now if workers want to form…
Free markets and capitalism have gotten a bit of a beating lately in the press as they get blamed for the current economic downturn. In response, politicians are calling for increased regulation by the government, ostensibly to better “serve” the general public. Proponents of increased government regulation theorize that a relatively small number of government employees can effectively direct and…
The headline reads “Obama plan would boost small businesses via lender incentives“. What the article is talking about is Small Business Administration (SBA) loans. I got one of these loans for my business in early 2003. It was for $100K, and took me five years to pay off. I wish I had never gotten the loan in the…
The callers to Jack Cafferty’s show seem to think that nobody has any money other than the federal government. This latest $410 billion spending bill (how many bills above $400 billion do we have floating around anyway?) includes funding for a honey bee laboratory and swine odor and manure management, amongst other things.
One of the callers points…
Big businesses don’t care about people, they just care about profits. Therefore, the government needs to step in and make sure that businesses treat people right.
This is the mantra repeated in word and deed by liberals, leftists, and the Democrat leadership. But it is 99% false. In truth, the more government regulates business, the more business regulates government, and…
I don’t hate unions. I think good things have been accomplished by unions. But I am against corrupt unions. I am against unions whose actions hurt the very workers they claim to support. I am against unions whose actions hurt workers, societies, and countries. And this interview by the Wall Street Journal of Andy Stern, head of the…
We sent a message to Wall Street: the party is over. The era of golden parachutes for high-flying Wall Street operators is over.” – Nancy Pelosi
In the 1980s CEO salaries were 40 times larger than the average worker’s. Today, they are 600 times the size. And politicians involved with the bailout are targeting the salaries of executives…
Here’s a Thanksgiving message for you. Did you know that socialism could have killed the pilgrims? Originally the pilgrims in America lived in a communal setting where everyone contributed all their crops to the governor, and then it was doled out equally for all. But in an attempt to change things and ensure their survival, Governor William Bradford…
There are plenty of American autoworkers who hope congress doesn’t give the Big Three automakers a bailout. These autoworkers work at American-based plants for Honda, Mazda, Toyota, and BMW. They’d like to know why, after 30 years, Detroit still hasn’t been able to get their act together, and why the American taxpayer should be footing the bill for…
Circuit City is declaring bankruptcy. The government will not bail them out. Detroit is also going bankrupt, has already been bailed out within the past month, and the size of that bailout is about to double to $50 billion. Why are automakers being bailed out and Circuit City isn’t? There is more than one reason, but one reason…
I met Michael Leavitt when he was Governor of Utah. Seems like a nice guy. I’m also Pro-Life. I think there are some extenuating circumstances that might justify an abortion, like a woman/girl being raped, incest, or if the life of the mother is at risk. But when a woman consents to have sex, gets pregnant, and then gets an…
It seems that many people who believe in global warming and that the cure is taxing carbon emissions and investing in alternative energies often make the claim “It will create jobs!” Yes, but it’s one thing for one company to create jobs and another thing for there to be net job growth, or more jobs created than jobs lost. Another…
My wife worked for the State of Utah for three years, and yes, I wish they had started this program when she started. Now here’s the thing, the government gets a win-win here because they satisfy just about everyone, including business-minded folks as well as radical environmentalists. The environmentalists can be happy because energy is being conserved, people…
Glenn Beck has been asking this question for a few days on his radio show, and many other people have been asking this question for years, if not decades, and in fact they were probably asking it as soon as the year 1800. We already know the American populace had significant disdain for Congress as early as in Mark Twain’s…
I’m a native Californian but I currently live in Utah and run a business here. Utah has plenty of room to improve when it comes to creating a business-friendly environment, as do all states, but California could learn a few things from Utah. Case in point, the fees involved with starting and owning a business in California.
Back in 2003…
