A big Hat Tip to Doug Ross@Journal for leading me to this article by the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The article, titled Ten Thousand Commandments 2013, is their annual review of the Federal Regulatory State. Because of its brevity, I’m going reproduce it here with emphasis added by me: Full Document Available in PDF The scope of federal government spending and deficits is sobering. Yet the government’s reach extends well beyond the taxes Washington collects and its deficit spending and borrowing. Federal environmental, safety and health, and economic regulations cost hundreds of billions—perhaps trillions—of dollars every year over and above the costs of [...]
Capitalism
The Left and the Right Have A common Enemy and Don’t know It: Crony Capitalists
There is a thought-provoking article in Forbes titled We Can’t Save Capitalism Unless We Denounce Its False Prophets. The author, Bill Frezza, makes the point that when it comes to trying to save the “economic soul” of America, and by that he means the free market capitalist system, the Right vs Left dichotomy is not working and is counter productive. He rightly states that there are not two sides to this important issue; but three: In one corner we have the traditional market capitalists, the bedrock of American exceptionalism and the source of our prosperity. These businesses, both large and small, pursue profits [...]
Jezebel Writer Provides List of Conservative Companies That are Resisting ObamaCare Birth Control Mandates
You have to love it when the liberals do the leg work for us. As Mockerena, from Chicks on the Right points out, JM Baker or Jezebel did a lot of research, and created a list of (gasp) “Conservative companies” that are fighting the ObamaCare mandate to provide birth control. Mockerena has more… Katie JM Baker writes for Jezebel.com and I want to offer her my most HEARTFELT THANKS for doing a bunch of work for me that I no longer have to do. You see, she wrote a blistering column against the “bigoted” companies who are daring to fight [...]
Is It Time For Conservatives To Start Thinking Long Term?
In the world of business, especially in the corporate world, they make use of short-term, mid-term, and long-term planning. Typically this begins at the department head level. Someone(s) further up the chain then consolidates these plans into plans for the division and those plans will be consolidated to produce short, mid, and long.term plans for the corporation. Short-term might mean one year, mid-term might mean three years, and long-term might mean ten.years, just as an example. The short-term plans are typically the basis for annual budgets. Mid-term plans alert management to many things they need to be doing in the [...]
Sweating Your Fair Share
The guilt-tripping airheads who write for the New York Times ask: Is it a good goal for everyone in the world to have access to air-conditioning — like clean water or the Internet? Or is it an unsustainable luxury, which air-conditioned societies should be giving up or rationing? The only thing unsustainable in modern times is the insufferable arrogance of the Left, whose card-carrying members actually believe they should set ‘goals’ for everyone on the planet. Internet access for humankind? Universal air-conditioning? This is the kind of ‘chicken-in-every-pot’ blather which bombastic stump speakers employed to try and bamboozle back-country rubes [...]
Top 400 Wage Earners Paid More in Taxes Than the Bottom Half! Leftist Meme Shattered
If you listen to the occupods, the mythical 99% are being completely fleeced by the equally mythical 1%. Class warfare is a stubborn thing, but reality always wins in the end. Bunkerville has the meme bustage… Just thought this would be a factoid worthy to report. Reality can be difficult to deal with. Not mentioned is not only do the non-payers not pay, but get money back from the 400. I don’t think 400 come to “The one percent” do you? Bottom Line: A small group of 400 of America’s most successful earners in 2009, about the number of residents living [...]
Viral Video – Reagan Takes Obama to School
Let’s help this video make the rounds and go viral. Related posts: Viral Video: Racist Group Harasses Tea Party Let’s Make This Viral: Democrats see “Blacks” as “Useful Idiots” We Con The World: Make it Viral! Let's Make this Viral-UPDATED Public School Indoctrination: Video Shows Obama in “Glorious” Light Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
Video: The Burden Big Government Puts on a Small Businessman
Via Small Dead Animals I found this 2 minute video from Senator Jim DeMint(Republican, South Carolina) which explains how big government is making it harder for Americans to find jobs and more difficult for small businesses to succeed. As the video shows in an amusing way, when big government puts too many burdens on America’s economy, it forces jobs and investment overseas instead of here at home. It also makes it harder for middle class small business owners to compete against large corporations (who receive exemptions and build loopholes into legislation through their lobbying), discouraging real competition and job growth. Original Post: A Conservative [...]
Solyndra down the tubes?
While Barack Obama hones his class warfare rhetoric in anticipation of a presidential election against that evil rich guy, Romney, Solyndra, the company who scammed American taxpayers for a half billion dollars is taking hypocrisy to another level. Even though they are in bankruptcy proceedings and attempting to sell lock, stock and barrel to try and meet creditors’ demands, Solyndra is literally shattering millions and millions of glass tubes, rather than try to find a buyer. So it would seem that the old axiom about profit being a driver of inspiration is true. Were it private money that Solyndra [...]
Decoding the Leftist Narrative: We’re not Successful Just by Ourselves
As we go into the election year, we’re going to see some familiar themes. As usual, the statists will couch their ideas in kind sounding terms in an attempt to sugar coat their desire for power and control. Since these little platitudes are going to be coming in torrents over the next few months, I thought it might be a good idea to parse them. First up, the latest meme from the Democrats… We’re not successful just by ourselves. This one is designed to appeal to our more egalitarian nature. After all, how do products get made without workers? How do [...]
Chevy Volts are Recalled (Kind of): All of Them
When GM was still GM, and NOT Gubmint Motors, the Volt was the next big thing. If you recall, the original vision for the Volt was for it to be an electric car, with a small gas motor to recharge the batteries. It actually generated some excitement, and it promised massive mileage. That, of course, turned out to be a gigantic lie-one that was not disclosed until the car was just about to go into production. By then, of course, GM had been turned into a government operation. And, like any other government operation, GM, and the Volt in particular, have [...]
Is Government Motors in Trouble? Dealer Inventory at Record Levels
It would appear that government motors is making itself look good by making a lot of vehicles. That, in and of itself isn’t so bad. What is bad is that once government motors sends these vehicles to the dealers, they tend to sit, sit, and sit. For more on this, here is some coverage from NewsBusters… Not that it took keen insight to catch it, but yours truly was one of a very few people who pointed out that General/Government Motors unduly dressed up its financial statements in advance of its late-2010 initial public offering by foisting an unreasonable level of vehicle [...]
Black Friday: Why Risk Getting TB or Lice From a Smelly Hippie When You can do all of Your Shopping Here?
Black Friday is coming soon, my friends, and the Occupods have plans to disrupt it… We at the CH 2.0 recognize the public health risk that the Occupods pose. Their tendency to urinate and defecate in public, the fact that some may be carrying tuberculosis, and that many have been infested with lice and scabies, all pose a public health risks. Additionally, their rampant anti-Semitism, acts of violence and vandalism, or the simple fact that they are smelly hippies may ruin an an otherwise happy shopping experience, have prompted us to action. Why should you risk an infection disease, or [...]
Dippin' Dots About to Melt for Good? Files for Bankruptcy Protection
Dippin’ Dots, the ice cream frozen into bead form, is on the verge of going out of business, and has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, according to the Wall Street Journal. Dippin’ Dots Inc., the self-described “ice cream of the future,” filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Thursday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Paducah, Ky., near its headquarters, after fighting off foreclosure efforts from Regions Bank for more than a year, according to court documents. At the time of the filing, the company owed about $11.1 million to the bank. Company executives immediately asked for court permission to spend [...]
Occupy Wall Street: Are the Occupiers Learning that the "Collective" is Oppressive?
It seems that the Occupy Wall Street effort has a money problem-they are sitting on about $500,000! Also, this surplus is being controlled by a few, and the rest are not all that happy with what the few are doing with it… According to the New York Post, OWS has deposited five hundred thousand dollars into an account and is using the money to fund the daily operations in Lower Manhattan. They also have physical assets substantial enough to require significant storage space. CBS News reports that the protesters are filling a large storage space around the corner from the park they occupy. “They’ve [...]
Anti-Capitalist Proganda Explained: Redux
Back in July, I published a post about anti-capitalist propaganda. Given the #occupy useful idiocy going on, I thought it might be useful to revisit it. When I was looking for an image for my last post, I found a ton of images that were confusing, not that I didn’t understand then, I did, but because how factually and philosophically incorrect they were. So, I thought it would be fun to examine a few, and compare them to the real world… This one is kinda interesting. I kinda like Burger King and Ford. But here is the reality; I don’t [...]
A Free Market Story for Progressives
Are competitive free markets unfair? Progressives believe the free market system is unfair. Obama has said that at some point people have made enough money. Recently referring to Bank of America’s plan to charge $5.00 for use of debit cards, Obama said: “You don’t have some inherent right just to– you know, get a certain amount of profit.” When we cut through all the rhetoric, the reason progressive don’t like the competitive free market system, is that a few get rich and the rest don’t and in their twisted minds that is not fair. We free market capitalist know that [...]
High Cigarette Taxes Fail to Meet Expected Revenue Targets: Anyone Surprised?
Apparently, raising taxes on tobacco products is falling out of favor with state governments… According to Patrick Gleason, director of state affairs for the conservative Americans for Tax Reform, tobacco has not been the revenue boon states that have increased cigarette taxes had hoped. “The lack of interest in raising tobacco taxes this year can be attributed to the fact that tobacco taxes have indisputably proven to be a dubious and declining source of revenue,” Gleason told TheDC. “From 2003-2007, 16 of 59 tobacco tax hikes fell short of revenue projections.” Here in Washington D.C., for example, the city’s 2009 [...]
Sunday Sales Papers: 7-31-11
Hey all, here are some offers from my Linkshare advertisers… American Greetings has a free trial of their service… Auto Parts Warehouse has deals as well! Buy.com has a number of sale items that expire soon! Get a Centon 16GB DataStick Pro USB 2.0 Flash Drive (Grey) for $20.54 at Buy.com, a $29.45 Savings! Valid through 08/02/2011 Get a Kingston 8GB (2 X 4GB) Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) Cards (Twin Pack) for $9.95 at Buy.com, a $16.05 Savings! Valid through 08/05/2011 Get a Lenovo G560 067999U 15.6″ Notebook with Intel Pentium P6100, 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD & Win7HP Windows [...]
Sunday Sales Paper: July 24, 2011
It’s Capitalism time! Here are some deals/sales from my Link Share advertisers… Panasonic is still offering $1.99 shipping on all items… Sirius Satellite Radio has a summer sale! Buy.com has a sale on apparel. It expired on Wednesday, so hurry! Wolfgang’s Vault apparel sale ends tomorrow. The Supply Sergeant has an offer code (see ad for details). Have a great Sunday folks! Related posts: Capitalism in Action at the CH 2.0 The Summer of Unrecovery: Car Sales to Reach 28 Year low July 4, 1776 Happy Fourth of July! Happy Fourth of July! Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related [...]
Anti-Capitalism Propaganda Exposed
When I was looking for an image for my last post, I found a ton of images that were confusing, not that I didn’t understand then, I did, but because how factually and philosophically incorrect they were. So, I thought it would be fun to examine a few, and compare them to the real world… This one is kinda interesting. I kinda like Burger King and Ford. But here is the reality; I don’t have to buy a single product from any of those companies. That’s freedom! Let’s say for example, that I don’t want Windows on my computer. Rather than support all of [...]
Capitalism in Action at the CH 2.0
We all love capitalism. It’s the way that the market will organize itself to provide goods and services and low prices (provided that the government doesn’t screw it up, as in the that Housing Collapse). In keeping with the fine tradition of Capitalism, I’ve resumed using LinkShare. I had used it in the past, but really hadn’t pushed it, so I just stopped showing the links. Well, it’s back. And every week, I’ll be sharing some deals that might interest you. Here are some items of potential interest. 1. Panasonic is offering $1.99 Shipping on all orders… $1.99 Shipping at Panasonic.com.2. Buy.com [...]
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