Category Archives: The Economy

Ma’s plan to further screw the economy

Posted on September 4, 2015 | Comments Off on Ma’s plan to further screw the economy

Ma Barker, not satisfied with Barry Hussein’s seven years of a miserable economy, has her own plans to further the Democrat’s disaster.

“…Hillary Clinton is proposing an FDR-style tax distortion for investments, and Alan Reynolds describes what happened after this policy was implemented in the 1930s. ‘In the 12 months between February 1937 and 1938, the Dow Jones Industrial stock average fell 41%…That crash presaged one of the nation’s worst recessions, from May 1937 to June 1938, with GDP falling 10% and industrial production 32%…'”

Modern Democrats, you can count on them not to understand economics or even remember the historic failures of their own party. Even the former Democrat, El Trumpo, a businessman who ought to know better, is proposing a no-growth policy. He wants to raise taxes. He claims they’ll only hit the rich. Being rich himself, with all sort of opportunities to shelter his fortune from the tax man, he knows that isn’t true.

Via The WSJ’s James Freeman

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Back in the Puckerbrush

Posted on August 19, 2015 | Comments Off on Back in the Puckerbrush

Andy’s off his Central Texas vacation and back gate-guarding again in Webb County (which includes the streets of Laredo), in the far South Texas Puckerbrush:

“It has been 100+ every day since we [him and Tuco the dog] got here and the weatherman is just sayin’ more more MORE!  It is what it is I reckon.”

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The truth about the Democrat economy

Posted on July 6, 2015 | 2 comments

Well, now, it has taken an admitted Socialist running for president to tell the truth about our high unemployment, though I think Bernie’s 10.5 percent is way low.

Meanwhile all the closet Socialists (Democrats and RINOs) and their bosom buddies in the news media will go right on lying.

Via Instapundit

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The Democrat economy still sucks

Posted on June 23, 2015 | Comments Off on The Democrat economy still sucks

That’s over all, country-wide. Some states, such as Texas, are enjoying a much better one. Which is no surprise, according to the Wall Street Journal.

“Employment, state GDP, labor-law and tax data from 2000 to the present yield two strong lessons. First, a business-friendly climate—market-oriented labor policies and lower taxes—is effective in raising the growth in a state’s gross domestic product and employment. Second, states that suffered the worst employment shocks in the 2007-09 recession had the most rapid post recession employment growth. This suggests that the weak national recovery cannot be explained by the depth of the recession.”

More likely, as we’ve said before, the weak recovery is due to higher federal taxes and particularly the kind of constant uncertainty that comes from Our Little Barry Hussein and his Democrat Party’s bashing big business and promising ever-higher minimum wages, both sure ways to keep employment stagnant. Except in those states where other advantages balance them out.

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One more reason for Whataburger

Posted on June 20, 2015 | 2 comments

“McDonald’s [which will test a kale replacement for its lettuce and] also says its milk will soon be without artificial growth hormones, and chicken (McDonald’s sells more of it than of beef) will be free of human antibiotics. All these might be good business decisions and as socially responsible as can be.

“They certainly pertain to McDonald’s new mantra about being a ‘modern, progressive burger company,’ whatever that means. The meaning will perhaps be explained by the progressive burger company’s new spokesman, Robert Gibbs, formerly Barack Obama’s spokesman and MSNBC contributor…”

Probably McDonald’s sales being down 15 percent has something to do with it. Meanwhile, if you just want the very best hamburger & etc. money can by, there’s the more than 700 Whataburger locations across Texas. Yee-haw.

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Our Little Barry

Posted on June 11, 2015 | Comments Off on Our Little Barry

“I look at Barack Obama and I see the worst president in my lifetime, without question.” —Dick Cheney.

Can’t argue with that. Although I’m sure Ma Barker will be even worse.

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Thank your lucky stars you’re not in Austin, Texas

Posted on June 7, 2015 | 6 comments

I paraphrase. Of course the caller at the contra dances where our little pickup band plays every week likes to punctuate his palaver with the positive version of the headline. Not the negative as I am using it.

But, really, he’s beating a dead horse. A horse who suffocated from overcrowding long ago. Some of us locals on the West side of town call it Mopocalypse, as in the apocalyptic state of Mopac Boulevard, bumper-to-bumper traffic all day and most of the night.

Which is what you will  face if you make the mistake of moving here. The good times done rolled and gone. Gone about ten years now. Completely out of sight in the last five. Unless you like loong commutes with uncertain arrival times. California drivers weaving in and out, etc. Beggers—refugees from the Democrat economy elsewhere—with their hands out on every street corner.

Getting the picture? It’s crowded enough without you. Just stay away. Please.

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