Category Archives: The Economy

Gimme that old time class & gender warfare

The Hildabeast has waddled into the fray, facelift covering deep wrinkles, dog jowls and all, with the “middle-class economics” theme Wormtongue prepped for her. It’s to be class warfare as usual, the Democrat staple, rhetorically pounding the rich while surreptitiously keeping the grasping hand out for them under the table.

The Worm’s already crippled the middle class with a rotten economy and new taxes he claimed were for the rich. Can Godzillary do it one more time?

With a side dollop of “war on women,” of course. Lately translated into a rash of phony campus sex assualts and a very real demand for unlimited late-term abortions, viability of the “new born” be damned. (Scissor their spines and into the dumpster with ’em!)

You think we’re in a culture war now? At least we won’t have to see His Earness grinning like a fool all the time. Once her Lizardness is elected and has no more need to pretend for the rubes, she won’t do grins.

She is deaf to human cordiality, has a bad temper, and treats subordinates with haughty disdain. In that sense she is more authentic than her equally callous and narcissistic, but charismatic husband.”

Will American voters ever learn? Higher taxes and more unemployment is what class and gender envy will get you, suckers. Eight more years of a sorry Democrat economy, the Groper back in the White House harassing interns and the ever-corrupt and mendacious Queen of Benghazi sneering around her expensive dental implants whenever the band plays Hail To The Chief Uterus.

As she once famously declared: “What difference, at this point, does it make?” We’re going to find out.

UPDATE:  PJMedia’sRoger L. Simon: “Is everyone throwing up yet?…Oh, well, American ‘liberalism’ has been screwing the lower classes for the last fifty years.  Why stop now?”

MORE: Bill Quick at Instapundit: “Clintons: Gulling the 47% while wholly owned by the 1%.”

Shucking the blog

Andy of MyOldRV, post-gate guarding in the shut-down Eagle Ford fracking field and wandering ever since has considered stopping blogging.

“I have heard from lots of y’all these last few weeks mostly inquiring if all was well. It is, make no mistake. It is VERY well!  I am just running way down below that invasive and offensive radar as I possibly can.  Sometimes, late in the still evening when Little Blue is shut down for the day and the Jim Beam is out on the counter and Tuco the Dog is laying at my feet,  I toy with the idea of shucking it all.  No blog,  no continuing sharing that began six years ago with that first blog entry.  I think about it ever more often but it is not time.”

Naw. Never would be too soon. Happy Trails!

Democrat economy still tanking

“Now, signs point to a risk of commerce slowing and growth stagnating throughout the year, a year that President Obama and others hoped would be the long-awaited breakout for the still-damaged U.S. economy.”

Still over-regulated and over-taxed, would be more like it. New business creation has been negative since 2009 when our Barry Hussein was sworn in.

It’s been half a century since a Democrat president believed in tax cuts and he (JFK) was murdered.

Via Instapundit.

Your life in the hands of one

Ever since the airlines eliminated the flight engineers on the flight deck, our lives have been in the hands of two people, the captain and the first officer. And when one of them leaves the flight deck to go to the toilet, there’s only one person up there in the pointy end.

Just one.

Whether the sensational NYTimes report is accurate or not (and heavens knows they’re not paragons of objective, accurate reporting about anything else) it’s plain the cost-cutting airlines have imperiled all of us who fly with them all the time.

Via PPRUNE.

UPDATE:  The NYT report has now been seconded by a French prosecutor.

MORE: The Germanwings First Officer’s ex-girlfriend says he planned it. He was a psycho on the locked flight deck who flew 150 people into a mountain. That’s another airline to stay away from.

Federal law is choking the fracking boom

Looks like low oil prices aren’t the only thing costing folks like Andy their jobs down in the Eagle Ford. It’s not Obozo, much as he and his Green base would like to quash the fracking boom. No, says the WSJ’s Holman Jenkins, it’s the 40-year-old hangover from the 1970s oil embargoes: laws banning export of American oil.

“Oil has been one of the few boom industries in Obama’s America, creating a disproportionate share of new jobs. Among many stupidities, very light petroleum known as a condensate can be exported if it happens to come out of a gas well. If the same material comes out of an oil well, it can’t be exported without special permission. Ultra-light crudes account for a high proportion of booming Eagle Ford Shale production in Texas. Such crudes are especially coveted by Asian refiners, which means domestic producers are leaving a large premium on the table.

“Who wins? Domestic refiners get artificially cheap oil to run their plants. An industry mythology claims consumers also benefit thanks to cheaper gasoline. Don’t buy it. Gasoline flows freely in and out of the country, so its price is set by the world market.”

One thing’s for sure, as the oil shale jobs are cut back, down in the Eagle Ford of south Texas and way up in North Dakota, the Obozo Economy is going to get a lot worse. Not that he or his greedy party care. They have theirs.

Via Instapundit.

Enjoy the hills, Andy

Andy, of MyOldRV, is finally out of the gate-guard business down near Cotulla. His frackin’ gig of two years and seven months has succumbed to low oil and gas prices. Good for us drivers but not for oil companies and such.

Andy smartly took off for the western Hill Country, for a little vacating. He’s pointedly not saying exactly where. It’s pretty out there, and will be more so once the bluebonnets start unfolding. When this damn cold weather loosens its grip.

Mama, let your babies grow up to be feds

I’ve been telling Mr. Boy to consider becoming an electrician. He could take the college money, buy all his tools new and a new truck. Then, with plenty left-over for most of the price of a nice house in a high-demand neighborhood, he could get out there and make big bucks from the well-educated who are fearful of electricity.

But I’m wrong. Dead wrong. What he needs to do is to become a fed. That’s right a federal employee. Because that is where the big bucks really are, folks, up to twice six figures a year. Likely for doing no more than surfing porn on the Net half the day. And even when a fed is caught violating the law, she still gets a fat bonus.