Category: The Great Recession
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Chanting Points Memo: “Reagan Was A Moderate!”
Two things that make me think “something’s just not right here”, and warrant some investigation: Teenagers asking “so, are you going out Friday night?” Liberals citing Reagan. Lately, there’s been a plague of liberals, in print/blogs/on Twitter, stating without fear of contradiction (because, if you’re a Twin Cities liberal, nobody has ever contradicted you) that…
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Afflicting The Afflicted
From the lefty playbook; compare apples to distributor caps, then use the results to give ones’ supporters the sense of victimizaiton that, you hope, will keep them chanting on cue. So with this bit from the City Pages: Minnesotans who can’t afford their rent outnumber those who can, according to a new study released today,…
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Why Does Eric Pusey Hate Taxpayers And Property Owners?
As Reagan once said, “It’s not that liberals lie. It’s just that they say so many things that are not so”. Now, if you’ve read this blog for a while, you know two things: I, among very few partisan bloggers in the Twin Cities, make a concerted effort to try not only to remain civil,…
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Looking for Love in All The Wrong Places
I almost feel sorry for Barack Obama. He’s traveling the world over, looking for some love, and coming up empty. America handed him an epic rejection of virtually everything he has “accomplished” just two years in. Knowing fully well what was coming, he skipped the country on a trade mission, a multi-bazillion-dollar entourage in tow,…
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Don’t Fight the Fed
…fire the Fed. Yesterday we learned the American economy added more jobs than expected. While it was not enough to budge the 9.6% unemployment figure, it was a surprise to everyone…including the Federal Reserve who had just announced a $600 billion dollar initiative to create economic “stimulus” via buying back government debt. This essentially pushes…
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Nuance
I’m not going to say that the most frustrating arguments are the ones where your opponent reduces your case to its most absurd extreme. You: I think it’d be fun to go to Burger King. Opponent: Why do you hate McDonald’s? You get used to arguments like this if you have junior high kids, psychotic…
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The Plan Progresses
While the global economic meltdown has caused immense problems, it might have dealt a major jump ahead to my plan to have my own island nation: The Greek state must sell stakes in companies and also assets such as, for example, unpopulated islands,” Frank Schäffler, a member of parliament for the pro-business Free Democrats, told…
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Please Sir, I Want Some More
1977: Home ownership should be increased via government incentives and if necessary penalties for those that don’t lend money to people that can’t pay it back. Result: The Great Recession. 2009: Access to banking services should be increased via government incentives and if necessary penalties for those that don’t offer banking services to people that…
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Don’t Blame Geithner…It’s All of ‘Em
Last quarter’s “numbers” confirm that the stimulus didn’t stimulate, clunkers was one, the unemployed are still growing in ranks and the consumer is still cowering at home. Democrats are looking for someone to take the fall when in fact they are all making exactly the wrong moves economically, and soon time will show, politically. One…
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Nowhere to Hide
Check this out.
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Less Clams for the Yams This Year
The silver lining in The Great Recession…you can afford to invite more in-laws over this Thanksgiving. This year’s survey, released yesterday, put the cost of feeding 10 people at $42.91. The grocery bill fell 3.8 percent, the steepest reduction since its 4.3 percent drop at the start of this decade. The slump was also the…
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A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste
Interesting webtoy from the NYTimes for figuring and visualizing unemployment trends by demography, age, gender and edumacation. White college educated males (Mitch raises hand) over 45 are around 4.1% so far. Which is up from somewhere around 2% two years ago. Rates for women in pretty much every combination seem to be lower than for…
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You Could Learn Something From A Former Radio Guy
When I was getting into the voice-over business, I encountered an “agent” who said that for a small fee – I think it was $100 – they’d start representing me to potential clients. Fortunately I went to Don Vogel, who was a highly-experienced V/O guy, and whose show I’d been producing for a while. He…
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Stimulus Simulus
I was biking on a Three Rivers bike trail in and around my home in Hennepin County today and came upon some young workers building a little area of stairs onto the biking/walking trail from a park. They had arrived in an official Hennepin County van, so I would have to assume that they were…
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Selling It
Obama and his ilk are selling the July economic numbers, telling us the stimulus is working, the recession is ending and the economy is on the mend. Businesses shed “just” 247,000 jobs in July, far fewer than the 330,000 most economists and Wall Street analysts were looking for. As bad as that still sounds, July’s…
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Because I Say So
The Teleprompter in Chief™ defies reality, regurgitating well-worn propaganda that flies in the face of reality as revealed in real numbers. President Barack Obama said his $787 billion stimulus bill “has worked as intended” as he pushed back against Republican criticism that his recovery program has failed to rescue the economy. “It has already extended…
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That’s Not What We Meant
President BHO enlisted the support of our forefathers against their will in his 4th of July radio address. He said the same “unyielding spirit” that drove the pioneers and Depression-era workers was needed now to push for a national health care overhaul, make major energy policy changes, and deal with a struggling economy, he said…