by Bill O'Connell on September 16, 2011
Boeing 787 Dreamliner photo by craezer
Yesterday, the House passed a bill that would prevent the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from telling Boeing, America’s largest exporter, that it couldn’t build a factory in South Carolina, a Right-To-Work state. Boeing built a $750 million factory (with their own money, not yours) and hired 1,500 workers, before the NLRB stepped in and called this union retaliation. But no jobs are being eliminated back in Washington state, in fact, Boeing has added 2,000 jobs.
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by Bill O'Connell on September 9, 2011
Photo by Violentz
Most presidents view an address to a joint session of Congress for serious non-partisan purposes. Outside the annual State of the Union address they are rare. President Bush only did it once, in the aftermath of 9/11, and while jobs are very important to the country at this time, it is no place for a lecture (saying pass this bill seventeen times) from the most inexperienced president in our history.
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by Bill O'Connell on September 5, 2011
Photo by photobunny
It would be an understatement to say that unions have had some setbacks recently, so what’s wrong with hogging a holiday all to themselves as they lick their wounds?
The Marathon County Labor Council originally tried to ban Republican lawmakers from Monday’s parade, but it backed down when the Wausau mayor threatened to refuse insurance costs and other expenses to the public event.
While it is true that organized labor was behind the establishment of Labor Day, when you consider that at their peak in the 1950s, unions only represented a little over a third of all workers, it never would have happened without a lot of non-union support to get them more than the fifty percent needed to pass any legislation. So just how did we get in this mess?
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by Bill O'Connell on September 1, 2011
Photo by Robert Scoble
And I’ll promise you this: I’ll work every day to make Washington, D.C. as inconsequential in your life as I can. And at the same time, we’ll be freeing our families and small businesses and states from the burdensome and costly federal government so those groups can create, innovate and succeed. — From Rick Perry’s speech announcing his run for the presidency.
That is the pledge of a person who deeply respects the Constitution. It is the sentiment of a person who understands the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution.
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by Bill O'Connell on August 29, 2011
photo by Kevin Dooley
One of the main reasons the current economic problem is so hard to solve and the battle lines are so starkly drawn is that there is strong disagreement on what the problem is and likewise the solutions. The mantra from the left is that the problem is Bush’s fault, there was too much deregulation under Bush, although no one points to any particular regulation repealed under Bush that caused the crisis, and that we don’t tax enough. Those on the right have a different view.
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by Bill O'Connell on August 9, 2011
Phot by Minwoo
Another week, another code word. The new term being bandied about is Balanced, which really means soak the rich. It’s is class warfare, the stock and trade of the left. If you can’t beat ‘em, beat ‘em. But I guess the cat was let out of the bag when Neil Cavuto interviewed Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN) and the Congressman had this brilliant piece of wisdom to share with us:
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by Bill O'Connell on July 17, 2011
As the brinksmanship over the debt limit heats up, we can still hear the progressives saying that we are in this fix because we cut taxes without “paying” them. Let’s drive a stake through the heart of that one.
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by Bill O'Connell on June 8, 2011
The times were dark ones. In some parts of the world communism was taking hold and viewed by some as the future that works. In other regions fascism was gaining in Germany and Italy. In the U.S. President Roosevelt and his administration tried idea after idea to end the Great Depression without success. Despite Roosevelt’s admonition that we only have to fear is fear itself, fear was always at people’s elbows.
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by Bill O'Connell on April 11, 2011
The Cato Institute held its semi-annual Policy Perspectives meeting at New York’s Waldorf Astoria hotel. The program included speakers on a number of topics, among them, what is being taught in our law schools; “Obamacare, What a Difference a Year Makes”; “The State of the Federal Budget”; and “The Coming Good News about Market Forces and Education.”
Opening his remarks with the greeting, “Happy Government Shutdown Eve!” it was clear that Tad DeHaven was going to present a hard hitting critique on the state of the federal budget.
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by Bill O'Connell on April 4, 2011
Department of Agriculture1—elevated to Cabinet level at a time when agricultural employment in this country was 70–80 percent of the population. In 2008, agricultural employment was about 2–3 percent of the population. Why do we still need it? –
Liberty’s Lifeline
The haggling over the 2011 fiscal year budget is reaching a climax. Later this week House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan will present his budget plan for FY 2012. It promises to be extraordinary and you can expect fireworks to soon follow.
