Category Archives: The Economy

Why the Dems hate Fox News

Because of little gems of actual journalism like this Neil Cavuto find of a video of JFK endorsing a tax cut to get the economy moving again—in 1963!

“I’m in favor of a tax cut because I’m concerned that if we don’t get the tax cut that we are going to have an increase in unemployment and that we may move into a period of economic downturn.”

This was never rocket science, not even to the pol who won the presidency with a phony campaign about a “missile gap” with the Soviets. Kennedy was never as saintly as the Democrat media and academics have made him out to be since his murder.

But cutting taxes and cutting back on federal regulations used to be the mantra of both parties when the economy was in the tank. Until Obongo and Reid and Pelosi. They’ve rather see the little people on food stamps, the better to control their votes, and, meanwhile, hold rich people’s feet to the fire—not to do them actual harm, just to force them to pony up more of the bribes Obongo, Reid and Pelosi (and their media pals) like to call “campaign contributions.” Skunks.

Via Darkwater.

Proof of extensive D.C. corruption

When even dimwits like Eleanor Holmes Norton feel free to openly demand their share of the bribes, you know the system is hopelessly corrupted.

She does know the landscape, however. Who’s going to stop her? Holder and his “justice” department?

And there’s the example set by the Lizard Queen, who laundered the groper’s bribes as the First “Lady” of Arkansas. That’s what Whitewater was all about. She was secretary of state, before she got an ambassador murdered.

Via Instapundit.

Fly your dog to Martha’s Vineyard? Of course, sir.

Heard about Obongo’s newest puppy? No word yet whether it came with its very own V22 Osprey, or if he’ll need to keep using the Marine one.

Viagra is a scam

Public exposure, so to speak, is always delicate (I’m not talking about Weiner and his magic tallywhacker here) but, face it, someone has to do it. And J.D. over at the Mouth of the Brazos has come mighty close:

“If these products are so great, I will buy any or all of them, on the condition that they show on screen a wore-out, obese, old fart with diabetes and high blood pressure and heart disease with a rock-hard phallus ramming it into one of those chicks.”

Allow me to, as it were, go all the way there: In my experience, having reached the Psalmist’s three score and ten, Viagra and its clones are a scam. All I got from the big V was a headache and dizziness. Much more likely to work are 1) going on a low-to-zero carb diet, 2) quitting smoking and 3) exercising daily. Not that I really care to try two or three.

Promoting, not banning, plastic bags

The Austin city council’s ban on plastic bags isn’t really a ban on plastic bags.

It’s a scheme which, while it apparently encourages some people to bring cloth bags  (Ann Coulter calls them portable bacteria colonies) to the grocery, actually allows groceries to sell plastic bags rather them give them away.

In fact it encourages the use of plastic bags since our local H.E.B. charges more for paper ones: $1 for paper vs 25 cents for plastic. Our local CVS pharmacy not only does not sell plastic bags, they give paper bags away for free.

Now you may say the ban on plastic bags is actually a ban on the old, free plastic baggies one occasionally sees blowing end over end down a two-lane Hill Country highway. (Only occasionally, mind you. Central Texas roadways are remarkably clean.)

And we’re not likely to ever see one of H.E.B.’s red-with-white-handles plastic bags so enlivened by the breezes of passing cars. Ha, say I. Give it time. Give it time. Because it’s obvious that was/is not the issue here. Charging for plastic bags is the issue and that’s working out just fine.

UPDATE:  Hey! The Translucent plastic bags are back! At H.E.B.! Yes! And they are free!

But you need the password. The password is “meat.” When you buy some meat (or fish) they give you a free plastic bag, just like the ones that were banned. Somebody is listening to Ann Coulter. Besides me,that is.

Feds: poverty is caused by zipcodes

That’s the latest explanation by those genius Obongo appointments at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, one of the biggest con games the pols ever produced. Until Obamacare gets rolling.

Fortunately for us, they don’t have enough bureaucrats to sort through their existing paperwork let alone enforce their latest silly rule. All it will do is further slow the economy and increase work for lawyers—which might be the intention all along.

Next up: blaming mattresses for single motherhood.

Bezos’s WaPo buy

All I can say is that the $250 million Amazon’s Jeff Bezos paid is pretty cheap for such a famous brand, which illustrates just how far the newspaper biz has fallen since Monster and Craig’s, and the Web in general took away their classifieds for job, car, real estate ads, etc.

Will it change WaPo content from super-Liberal Democrat to something more conservative? Probably not, since Bezos is said to be a big Democrat contributor, possibly even to Obongo himself with whom he has lunched. Probably just a lot more of the same, though we might expect more private space industry coverage, with less snark about it. For a little while.

Most likely Bezos, who knows nothing about the news biz, just wanted a tax write-off to protect some of his wealth and the WaPo will disappear in a year or so. I hope this isn’t bad news for the one or two folks I know who used to work there and still get their pensions from it, but it looks like it is. I’m going to file this under Obituaries because I’d bet that’s where it’s headed.

UPDATE:  Breitbart News reports the WaPo had lost 87 percent of its value in the past ten years. Not terribly surprising, given:

“Over the years, the fake fact checks, the apparent coordinating with the Obama campaign to destroy Romney, the phony smears leveled at Republicans, the non-stop pushing of leftist causes, the unforgivable stealth-corrections, the laughably biased polls…”

Maybe Bezos can use it as a straight press release factory for the White House.