Obama’s words to Arizona State University are unbelievably ironic and hypocritical.
Archive for May, 2009
Check out some documents that show the bullying the Treasury Department’s been committing against banks. It’s at least a little bit fascist/socialist.
The Treasury wants control of the derivatives markets. Wonderful.
Meanwhile, the Democrats want to go back to offering easy credit to poor income families in the name of supporting minorities. It’s not like that’s caused any recent troubles, right?
Check out the Ripsaw. The military would be crazy not to use this sort of technology as their tanks
California, in order to ease its massive budget crises, negotiated with the home healthcare worker’s union to pay them less. Both sides agreed to the deal, but the Obama administration isn’t going to let anyone get away with reducing a union workers wage, so they’ve threatened to withhold California’s stimulus money. It really is like the mob bosses are running D.C. these days, isn’t it? Everyone who does anything badly gets rewarded, while those who stick to the rules and make prudent financial decisions get screwed.
Just like the ratio of the federal worker’s average salary to the average salary, this is not sustainable.
With Obama controlling Chrysler to the extent that he’s actually setting their budget, we’ve got government control of corporations almost as much as we’ve ever had in history. Can any of Obama’s/the Democrat’s defenders tell me how this isn’t the typical model of economics other fascists have followed?
Just a couple of stories of wasteful spending to cheer you up today.
First: stimulus money being spent repaving an airport (built by pork, thank you John Murtha) that receives an average of 20 passengers a day.
Second: $2.6 million going towards training prostitutes in China to drink responsibly. Clearly, this is the front line of humanitarian funding.
A little while ago, Obama criticized businesses which hold meetings and conferences in Vegas. Well, now he’s set to go down to Vegas himself to attend a fundraising event Harry Reid, who is running unopposed and has a war chest of $3 million, is going to be hosting. How exactly is this different?
As usual, the exact activities and policies that we are told by the socialists/liberal fascists are bad when companies do it are somehow fine when they do it themselves.
By taxing soda and employee health care benefits! What, taxing employee health care benefits was something that Obama attacked McCain for? Pssh, that was then, this is now – we’ve got a free market system to overturn!
She has issued a letter of amends.
Michael Graham is discussing legislation Massachusetts is expected to pass soon to require chains of 20 or more restaurants to post calorie count information. (Hint: That’s not going to help the state’s freedom rating.)
I don’t normally eat at chain restaurants, but I do know that there are a lot of smaller businesses I appreciate that just would not be able to comply with that sort of legislation. How long until bureaucratic creep means that the legislation affects even them?
The Matrix notwithstanding, it seems like our big science fiction series (Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5…) are all the typical 80s (or earlier) vision of computing, where there’s a big computer on the ship, and (maybe!) some notion of networked databases that can be accessed. We’ve had the internet pervasive in our culture for 10+ years now, people. Similar story for cell phones. Where’s the science fiction for the big (or little!) screen that actually takes into account the left turn we took near Albaquerque? Writers such as Vernor Vinge and Charles Stross have been writing both near and long term science fiction that takes into account the internet and the pervasiveness of communication in the future. Why haven’t we seen any of this translate to video yet?
