It’s Still “the Economy, Stupid”
Today, it’s still “the economy, stupid” with the federal debt now at $17 trillion, up from $4 trillion in 1992, and the economy stuck in a record-breaking slow recovery...
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Posts by Ralph R. Reiland
Aldous Huxley and NSA Leaker Edward Snowden
“In 1931, when Brave New World was being written, I was convinced that there was still plenty of time,” wrote Aldous Huxley in 1958 in Brave New World Revisited....
Self-proclaimed Economic Wizards
With the U.S. economy in its slowest job-market recovery since World War II and still 2.6 million jobs short from its payroll peak in January 2008, it's good to...
McCain’s Third-rate Escapade in Syria
“Third-rate men, of course, exist in all countries, but it is only here that they are in full control of the state,” wrote H.L. Mencken in his 1922 essay...
A Government Against Liberty
Let's say you're like most people and believe the federal government has become too large, too wasteful, too crooked, and too intrusive. Now imagine you receive a letter from...
Government Drops Ball in Ariel Castro Case
Unless you're a regular at sadomaso parties, it's unlikely that you'll ever see a poor soul being led around naked on a leash.Unlikely, that is, unless you were a...
Thatcher’s Revolution
Britain was in decline when Margaret Thatcher was elected as the nation’s first female prime minister in 1979. Her answer to the economic collapse was more capitalism and less...
The Economy: Baloney vs. Stark Reality
Nearly three years since Recovery Summer, we're $16.8 trillion in the hole, the median household income is lower than in 2010, we're stuck in a jobs depression, one in...
Washington Then, Washington Now
We’ve dropped a long way in 224 years, from Washington then to Washington now, from George Washington to Washington, D.C. ...
Squirrelly Robot and Closed Control Towers
Right when America’s school kids are looking forward to a spring tour of the White House, the Obama administration cancelled all public tours, blaming budget cuts and Republican pigheadedness....
Budget Cuts? Not for $50 Million Contract for New TSA Uniforms
Just two days before the automatic federal spending cuts took effect, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced it had awarded a $50 million one-year contract for new uniforms for...
Government Hostility Towards Job Creation
The vast majority of America’s small business owners, the key job creators in the economy, say that Washington’s policies are hostile to job creation and antagonistic toward free enterprise,...
“ … to Each According to His Needs”
The government’s goal is to “narrow the growing gap between the rich and the poor” by way of confiscating “more of the profits” of companies in order “to pay...
Obama’s Anti-Jobs, Anti-Growth Agenda
Shifting the blame for a failing economy from inept politicians and counterproductive government policies to “the rich” may work politically. But it’s an agenda that creates more disharmony than...
Red Ink and Welfare’s Failure
A slideshow presented by Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Public Welfare, Gary Alexander, “Welfare’s Failure and the Solution,” graphically illustrates the cost and unsustainability of the state’s anti-poverty programs. ...