The government crony Spoils System – of course never actually went anywhere. You win an election – you reward your cronies. Or people you want to make your cronies. Or the spouses of people you want to make your cronies. Biden Nominates WV Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin’s Wife to Federal Commission: “Gayle Conelly Manchin is […]
Joe Biden, Inc and the Democrats have already established a really bad behavioral pattern. Otherwise known as lying their faces off. They name mass avalanches of government spending after popular concepts – but the actual bills actually spend very little on the popular concepts for which they are named. And spends all the rest on […]
Every business that wants to be around next year began this year with a budget. A roadmap on how they will spend their resources – on employees, materials, etc. For almost all businesses, government is the largest line item. Paying taxes – and paying to comply with regulations – consumes the largest chunk of their […]
We’ve long referenced government’s ”Crowding Out Effect”: “One of the most common forms of crowding out takes place when a large government, such as that of the U.S., increases its borrowing and sets in motion a chain of events that results in the curtailing of private sector spending. “The sheer scale of this type of […]
Democrats having secured complete control of DC, there has been a debate about whether or not – for at least the next two years – working even a little with Republicans and their allies is of any value. The argument against being that since DC is so divided – only enlisting Democrats and their allies […]
Get this latest raft of dumbness from The New York Times…. Want Vaccines Fast? Suspend Intellectual Property Rights: “Otherwise, there won’t be enough shots to go around, even in rich countries.” The vaccines in question are, of course, for the China Virus. I personally won’t be partaking – for the same reason I never get […]
“What is past is prologue” — William Shakespeare, The Tempest The Barack Obama-Joe Biden Administration was exceedingly awful in ways too exceeding to innumerate. Which is why successor President Donald Trump’s three year pre-China Virus Lockdown turnaround to perhaps the greatest economy in American history was so exceedingly impressive. One is left to wonder: What […]
Donald Trump ran for the presidency promising to “Drain the Swamp.” We the People liked the pledge. So we elected him. President Trump has acknowledged that the Swamp is much deeper – and its Creatures much nastier – than he anticipated. Which is an understandable underestimation. I was born and raised in a proximate Swamp […]
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) – is yet another one of those Executive Branch joints the Legislative Branch set up to be “independent.” Which is, of course, unconstitutional. The Constitution establishes three branches of government – Executive, Legislative and Judicial. You can’t create an “independent” fourth branch – unless and until you amend our founding […]
There’s a line – a sentiment, actually – that governments everywhere really need to take to heart. “Don’t just do something – stand there.” Of course they won’t – because they’re governments. But it would be a lot cooler if they did. Why do we want them standing there – rather than doing something? Because […]