Two videos to remind you that 1,000 days is a disgracefully long time for a nation to go without a budget
Bookworm on Jan 24 2012 | Filed under: Democrats
Tag Archive 'Budget'
Your chance to have at least some say in government spending.
Bookworm on May 12 2010 | Filed under: Government
Cool. UPDATE: Thanks, Cottus. The typos I make, of course, are meant to ensure that, despite my impressive pedigree (which, Obama-like, I’ll keep hidden from you and, instead, I’ll just repeat that it really is as impressive as I say it is), I’m still one of “the little people.”
Fool me once, shame on you….
Bookworm on Jul 08 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Economics, Health, Taxes
In his most recent article at the Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove explains in great detail how Barack Obama told quite obvious lies about the stimulus numbers, only to pretend now that he didn’t really mean what he said. (That’s the lying pattern I’ve told you about.) The American people were good and fooled. The [...]
Cognitive dissonance at the AP
Bookworm on Mar 22 2009 | Filed under: Media matters
Zhombre alerted me to the AP’s problem when it tries to balance its story line (Obama good) with the facts, whatever they happen to be. Here’s the question Zhombre asked: “It there some dissonance between the first and second sentences or it is me? Does the AP lead completely contradict what Senator Gregg actually said?” [...]
Government views Americans as endless cash supply
Bookworm on Jan 05 2009 | Filed under: Economics, Government
I like the way Drudge tends to snapshot trends. Here’s an interesting one, considering the looming deficits federal, state and local governments face: What’s missing from the above list, of course, is CUTS. Lawmakers are figuring out as hard and as fast as they can ways to drain more money from the taxpayers. The one [...]
This is what happens when taxes go up
Bookworm on Nov 07 2008 | Filed under: Economics, Education
I suspect that, once Obama starts raising taxes, buyer’s remorse is going to set in with incredible speed. This article focuses on the local economy, but is a harbinger of what will happen when taxes go up on a larger, national scale: A temporary 1.5 percentage point sales tax increase proposed Thursday by Gov. Arnold [...]
