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J.C. WATTS: The mother of all bailouts to come - Opinion - ReviewJournal.com
This so-called “reform” and “consumer protection” legislation authorizes a $4 trillion bailout fund for Wall Street. That is more money than President Obama’s 2011 budget ($3.8 trillion), the gross domestic product of Germany ($3.7 trillion), and between five and six times the amount […]

What He Said.

RealClearMarkets - A Federal Budget That Insults All Budgets
The government has no resources. Everything it spends was created by private individuals and still belongs to taxpayers. All government can do is take from the industrious, the inventive, the hard-working and the frugal to dispense on the inefficient, the lazy, or the irresponsible. Government spending bites […]

Homeland Security Jobs At A Volunteer Fire Department?

More Executive Pork - Jamie Dupree on wsbradio.com
There is always a lot of talk about the Congress approving those dreaded ‘pork barrel’ items, which send taxpayer dollars to sometimes questionable projects in a certain state or city. But there isn’t much of a focus on pork doled out by the Executive Branch.For example, the Department […]

Heck’ava Job Obama.

Obama unveils 2011 budget with $3.83T in spending
US deficit to hit record 1.56 trillion dollars in 2010
TaxProf Blog: President Obama’s Budget Contains $1.9 Trillion in Tax Increases
US consumer spending is weaker than expected in December
Construction spending drops sharply in December
US economic rescue failing to meet key goals:auditor
Conclusion: We Are So Screwed

The Only Surprise Here Is That The AP Analyzed And Reported It.

STIMULUS WATCH: Unemployment unchanged by projects - Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON – A federal spending surge of more than $20 billion for roads and bridges in President Barack Obama’s first stimulus has had no effect on local unemployment rates, raising questions about his argument for billions more to address an “urgent need to accelerate job growth.”

This Cannot Continue.

Hot Air » Chart of the Day

If you read my posting about the relationship between the Public and Private sector you should be able to see right away why this cannot continue.In fact, if you have any Common Sense you should be able to see why this is unsustainable even if you have not read […]

We Have Seen The Future of Leftism


Good Old Fashioned Politics

Big Hollywood » It’s A Wonderful Bill
(with deep apologies to Frank Capra)
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Scene 14: Christmas Eve, inside Bedford Falls Town Hall. Senator George Bailey confronts an angry mob of constituents protesting his vote on the new health care bill.
MAN #1
Come on Bailey, you can’t hide forever! Let us in!
WOMAN #1
Yeah, what is this mandatory insurance nonsense? […]

Nice State You Have Here Governor; Be A Shame If Anything Happened To It.

Obama’s Transportation Secretary gives a straight answer — the seventh time he’s asked | Washington Examiner
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood had to be asked the same question seven times in Friday’s House Budget Committee hearing before he would finally give a straight answer.
Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., was grilling LaHood about a letter he had sent Arizona’s […]

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