10 Aug 2009

Ronald Reagan Speaking to the 1964 Republican National Convention

The first two minutes sound vaguely familiar to what is going on today (e.g. Taxes). Give it a watch/listen. Bear in mind that I am not a Republican or Democrat, but someone who wants government to butt out of the financial, personal, and health regulations of people's lives.

21 Jul 2009

The Squandered Stimulus by Robert J. Samuelson

While I would rather avoid the political garbage making its way onto my website, this article from Robert J. Samuelson in an op-ed in Monday's Washington Post hit some excellent points about the Democrats/Obama stimulus package:

It's not surprising that the much-ballyhooed "economic stimulus" hasn't done much stimulating. President Obama and his aides argue that it's too early to expect startling results. They have a point. A $14 trillion economy won't revive in a nanosecond. But the defects of the $787 billion package go deeper and won't be cured by time. The program crafted by Obama and the Democratic Congress wasn't engineered to maximize its economic impact. It was mostly a political exercise, designed to claim credit for any recovery, shower benefits on favored constituencies and signal support for fashionable causes.

As a result, much of the stimulus's potential benefit has been squandered. Spending increases and tax cuts are sprinkled in too many places and, all too often, are too delayed to do much good now. Nor do they concentrate on reviving the economy's most depressed sectors: state and local governments; the housing and auto industries. None of this means the stimulus won't help or precludes a recovery, but the help will be weaker than necessary.

Give it a read. I think it would behoove people to have a basic understanding of what our government "plans" for us.

17 Jun 2009

Two Political Quotes to Think About

Very interesting considering what is going on in the country right now...


"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."
-Harry Truman

"In politics, an organized minority is a political majority."
-Jesse Jackson
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