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 August 23, 2011
Photo by wstera2
Obama has a jobs plan, or so we are told. He will unveil it after he returns from Martha’s Vineyard. I hope it is a little more detailed than his budget plan to cut $4 trillion that no one can find by meticulously searching the Oval Office. I don’t even know what is in the plan and I have a better one. Stay in Martha’s Vineyard, Mr. President. Set a goal to play eighteen on every PGA sanctioned golf course in the country. Don’t you have some friends and family in Hawaii that miss you?
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by Bill O'Connell on August 15, 2011
Texas governor Rick Perry announced on Saturday that he was running for president. In his teleprompter free speech he drew more distinctions between himself and Barack Obama.
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by Bill O'Connell on July 15, 2011
It’s no mystery that President Barack Obama believes in social justice. What is social justice? It is basically taking from those who are the most productive and giving to those who are the least productive. This is done through the coercive power of government, not by appeals to our compassion to give to those we believe need a helping hand. That is called charity. Charity is voluntary. Social justice is compulsory.
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by Bill O'Connell on July 7, 2011
He can’t seem to say it enough, the economy is in the tank because of those tax breaks on corporate jets. Well, he didn’t exactly say that, but instead of the trillions of dollars in spending that he demanded and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid delivered, somehow a tax break that amounts to $3 billion over ten years is center stage in the budget battle.
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by Bill O'Connell on May 30, 2011
President Obama believes he has found the model for steering the chaos in the Middle East to peaceful democratic rule. Poland. But Obama ignores the historical events and players that surrounded that transformation from communist rule to independence.
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by Bill O'Connell on May 13, 2011
Compare the address below in honor of our wounded heroes with Michelle Obama’s famous statement that she was proud of her country for the first time in her adult life after her husband was nominated as the Democrat party presidential candidate.
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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 9, 2011
With all the heated rhetoric in the runup to a budget deal it is informative to look at some facts:
- The last Congress, controlled by the Democrat,s failed to pass a budget for Fiscal Year 2011. They failed to even create an initial draft of the bill was the first time since budget bills were created in 1974.
- The last Congress, controlled by the Democrats, failed to pass a single appropriation bill, of which there are twelve, for Fiscal Year 2011, which begins in October 2010 and extends through September 2011.
- The Republicans have put a proposal on the table to cut $61 billion from FY 2011 spending. This extreme plan is a reduction of 1.6% of spending. To Democrats, being allowed to only spend 98.4% of what they want is extreme.
- The Democrats in the Senate finally revealed their plan which would cut $6.5 billion or 0.17% of spending or 99.83% of what they want, and this is supposed to be painful cuts. What happens when they take up Congressman Ryan’s plan that cuts trillions?
- Democrats offered one time cuts such as earmarks and contracts that had never been spent because of such things as a lack of matching funds, about $3 billion. Really painful stuff, no?
- Unable to put forth any credible argument for continued spending at levels the American people are staunchly opposed to, the Democrats naturally turn to the politics of personal attack. This is from Congresswoman Louise Slaughter from New York:
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by Bill O'Connell on March 30, 2011
The new model of public service that we are being sold from Democrats and progressives is to get elected and then do nothing and stop anyone who tries to actually serve those who elected them. Shall we call it a politician subsidy or welfare, where we pay them to do nothing?
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