Tuesday, August 28, 2012
I’m not kidding. You know how the grocery stores show you how much an item costs, but then gives you the price per ounce? It’s called “unit pricing.”
Category Archives: Politics
Dutch Ruppersberger v. Nancy Jacobs: Pandering for votes.
Monday, August 27, 2012
Pandering is what many politicians do for a living. When you don’t understand or know how to solve a problem, when you don’t really care enough to do anything substantive about it or have the balls do be honest with your constituents, you pander.
Bill Clinton: Dispelling the myth of his balancing the budget.
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Those of you who have read yesterday’s article (“Bill Clinton: Economic policy genius or just lucky?”) may be saying to yourself, “Okay, he may not have created millions of jobs, but at least he balanced the budget!” Sorry to disappoint you, again. He never did, but he came close.
Bill Clinton: Economic policy genius or just lucky?
Thursday, August 23, 2012
I don’t know about you, but I’m soooo tired of hearing the President Obama and other Democrats boast about how many zillions of jobs Bill Clinton created when he was President. Give me a break. The man was anything but God’s gift to the Presidency. Bill Clinton just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
“What?!” The basackward economics of President Obama.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
The great American Middle Class is shrinking? Are we each, individually getting smaller? No, although there are some days lately when it feels like it. We’re losing income and wealth. While the precise definition of “Middle Class” is a bit fuzzy, what is clear is that this protracted recession is hurting everyone, some more than others, but everyone. And the effects for many of us are serious and long-lasting, the kind that take years, maybe even a generation or more, to reverse.
The Alchemy of Stimulus Job Numbers: Spinning wishful thinking into election gold.
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Ever wonder how it’s possible that stimulus spending has created so many jobs, and yet unemployment seems stuck above 8%? There are many reasons, of course, but one of the more obvious is that the President is overstating the number of jobs he claims to have created or saved.
Thank you, Rudy.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Some people have a way of saying what all the rest of us have been thinking, but were too polite to talk about.
Click on the link below from Politico and play the video.
Rudy Giuliani on Joe Biden: ‘He isn’t bright’
-Next Contestant
“Obamanomics.” Wishful thinking, positive spin or outright lies?
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
The next time the President or anyone running for high office drops a big number, would someone please ask him or her, “How do you know?” It’s a simple, entirely reasonable question. “How do you know?”
Crafting More Effective Stimulus Legislation, Part 5: What can we do to encourage a recovery?
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
The nerve of me. I’m nobody, and yet here I am telling you that monetary and fiscal policies, the traditional versions of them, don’t work. I might as well be telling you that prayer may make you feel like you’re doing something, but it doesn’t really accomplish anything, that any sense that it does is just wishful thinking and, in any case, impossible to prove. It is, of course, a flawed analogy, used only to make a point. The difference is that prayer is a matter of belief, while the efficacy of monetary and fiscal policy is science, social science, but science nonetheless. We don’t want elected officials who believe in the power of government. We want a President and legislators who understand the science of using government resources for the common good.
Crafting More Effective Stimulus Legislation, Part 4: What’s wrong with tax-related fiscal policies?
Sunday, August 13, 2012
Hi. You don’t dare start “Part 4” of anything without a summary. Like they say at the beginning of new episodes when the show’s storyline is complicated, “Previously on Next Contestant, …”