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American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Jennifer Rubin writes in Commentary Magazine:
James Sherk of Heritage makes a compelling case that the problem is not persistent layoffs but a drop in job creation. The labor market simply can’t absorb new workers entering the labor force. That slowdown in job creation, he says, is in large part attributable to “enormous increases in federal spending on traditional liberal priorities, such as for government-run health care, [which] raise the prospects of vastly higher taxes or rapidly rising inflation.”
He explains:
The federal deficit is expected to approach $2 trillion this year, and to remain well above $1 trillion for many years to come, doubling the national debt in just five years. This situation is not sustainable…Gross private investment in equipment and software—a good measure of business investment spending—has fallen by a full 20 percent since the recession began. As long as business investment remains low and entrepreneurs hold back from starting new enterprises, job creation will remain low—and unemployment, high.
Couple that with the prospect that employers may be hit with higher energy costs, a cap-and-trade regulatory scheme, and health-care mandates and one can understand that a hiring paralysis may become a fixture in the economy, absent a substantial change in the administration’s approach to economic recovery. If the president and his advisers think we can have a recovery while they attack the private sector and seek a vast expansion of government, they are in for a rude awakening. It turns out we need those private-sector employers. Who knew?
Let’s play Devil’s Advocate on this one, just to see if I can —
Silly Jennifer Rubin! Doesn’t she realize United States history, and world history, are chock full of stories of the private sector enterprises being hounded, taxed and regulated into providing more jobs they otherwise wouldn’t have. Like…uh…uh…er…ah…
Oh dear. Let me get back to you on that.
Hat tip: Inst.
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How many “real” jobs would there be ONE MONTH from RIGHT NOW, If The President declared an “Emergency” on Labor Day, and under the Emergency Powers Act,
distributed water to the California Green belt, opened up oil drilling in Alaskan
“Conservation” areas and off the coast of California, and now that the main obstacle is out of the way, allow construction of “Green” renewable power
windmills off the coast of Massachusetts?
Of course, special “union” rules would have to be negated, “for the children…”
- CaptDMO | 09/05/2009 @ 17:35Much like roofers that get paid “by the square”-and unlike previous WPA “art”
projects, performance based pay is back on the table. “Special” economic teams, (and “meteorologists”) please take note.
Hey, Barry!
Cut our freakin’ taxes and cancel ObamaCare and Crap N Trade! Let the private sector do the rest!
Problem solved, dumbass!
- cylarz | 09/05/2009 @ 22:31I wish we had some leadership to stand up and say that since unemployment is now above where it would have been had we done nothing, that we return to nothing and cancel the stimulus. I’d even compromise that we don’t have to cancel the WHOLE stimulus. How about we just cancel the 5 billion or so that we pumped into ACORN?
- Jason | 09/06/2009 @ 11:18