Jul 16, 2022 ~ Sen. Manchin, one of 2 sane Democrat Senators, kills the climate change part of BBB bill. He understands it is unaffordable, will fuel inflation and most importantly would do nothing to make the climate any better. The rest of the Dems are apololyptic: “We’re all going to die” [Anti-Science, Climate Change, Economics, Economy, Energy, Politics]
Jul 15, 2022 ~ Biden's trip abroad is a predicable disaster. First he fellates the Saudis begging for more oil because he stupidly shut down our own production, screwing consumers to appease green whackos. Then he insults multiple of our allies by comparing the Irish to the Palestinians. [Biden, Economy, Energy, Israel]
Jul 13, 2022 ~ Inflation sets new 40+ year record. 9.1% [Biden, Economy]
Jul 5, 2022 ~ Howard Husock, "Does Affirmative Action in Mortgage Lending Really Help Black Americans?" Short answer: No it hurts them and this is how we got the 2008 financial crisis. Lowering all kinds of standards like credit score, down payment, income req's that existed to reduce risk. [Affirmative Action, Economics, Economy, Fake Racism]
Jul 5, 2022 ~ Now they are back to blaming Putin for gas prices. When asked how long will this last, Biden said, "As long as it takes, so Russia cannot in fact defeat Ukraine." Biden Advisor Brian Deese added "This is about the future of the Liberal World Order and we have to stand firm." [Biden, Economics, Economy, Energy, Russia]
Jul 5, 2022 ~ The Biden Administration is switching from the lie that high gas prices are Putin's fault to blaming gas stations for the price! "Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you’re paying for the product. And do it now," he yells. Economically ignorant. [Biden, Economics, Economy, Energy]
Jun 26, 2022 ~ Kevin Williamson, 'Here Comes Fiscal Armageddon' "Fiscal Armageddon is what will happen when the U.S. government’s debt load exceeds its ability to comfortably service that debt." Will be spending more to service debt than anything else. Gov't will choose easy option, inflation. [Debt, Deficit, Economics, Economy, Kevin Williamson]
May 22, 2022 ~ Dillon Burroughs, 'New Study Reveals Florida And GOP-Led States Dominate COVID-19 Best Responses; Democrat-Led States Rank Among Worst' "The Report Card on the States measures and compares state performance on three metrics: the economy, education, and mortality from the virus." [Covid19, Economy]
Apr 18, 2022 ~ Fedex Founder Fred Smith, "Had we passed the Build Back Better bill that Biden wanted, my guess is that we would be Weimar Germany right now. We'd have 25% inflation rather 9% or 10%." There were only two sane Democrat Senators left to save the country. [Economics, Economy]
Apr 12, 2022 ~ US inflation is now at 8.5%. A new 40 year high. Democrats want to keep printing and borrowing. [Biden, Economy]
Apr 3, 2022 ~ Flashback 2/2021: Larry Summers warned of Biden's proposed economic stimulus plan: "There is a chance that macroeconomic stimulus on a scale closer to World War 2 levels than normal recession levels will set off inflationary pressures of a kind we have not seen in a generation." [Economics, Economy]
Mar 9, 2022 ~ Gas prices hit a record high. The price of gas, and prices in general have been rising for more than a year. The Biden Administration blames the war in Ukraine which started about a week ago. "The Putin spike" they call it. How did that war increase gas prices for 14 months? [Economics, Economy, Energy, Fake News]
Feb 10, 2022 ~ The inflation rate is now 7.5%. "That represents the largest annual spike since February 1982, when inflation hit 7.62 percent." [Economics, Economy]
Jan 28, 2022 ~ Terry Jeffrey 'Debt Up $2 Trillion in 1 Year of Biden' "The [US] had existed for 210 years, and 40 presidents had served as this nation's chief executive, before the debt first topped $2 trillion in 1986." This is beyond unsustainable but all Dems can talk about is spending more. [Debt, Deficit, Economics, Economy]
Jan 18, 2022 ~ Stephen Moore 'Remember US Energy Independence Day?' "The Trump energy policy was an astonishing economic success... First time in nearly 50 years, the US was producing more oil than we were consuming." We're "back to energy dependence. Biden has declared war on American energy." [Economy, Energy, Trump Win]
Dec 31, 2021 ~ Philip Klein, "In 2022, Retire the ‘Trust the Scientists’ Platitude" "The problem with 'trust the scientists' is twofold. One is that the so-called experts have often been wrong." The other is "A scientist merely interested in combating a virus" does not balance other concerns. [Covid19, Economics, Economy, Education, Health Care]
Dec 21, 2021 ~ David Harsanyi, 'Elizabeth Warren’s Big Whopper' Senator Karen claims grocery prices are not due to the inflation that is in EVERY sector, but rather because of "profits", "lavish bonuses" etc. This is dishonest and economically ignorant. Grocery profit margins are 2%, some less. [Economics, Economy]
Dec 21, 2021 ~ Bette Midler proves she's still a vile person, attacking 1.8M Virginians because Manchin won't vote for unaffordable spending given the inflation already caused by unaffordable spending. "He wants us all to be just like his state, West Virginia. Poor, illiterate and strung out." [Economics, Economy, Loathsome Left]
Dec 10, 2021 ~ Inflation skyrockets to 6.8%, the fastest rate in 40 years. The Biden Administration, having no idea what causes inflation, is doubling down on the very thing responsible. Spending more trillions of dollars we don't have, expanding the money supply making each dollar worth less. [Economics, Economy]
Dec 3, 2021 ~ Wendell Husebø, "Biden to Increase U.S. Oil Lease Fees 50% While Accusing ‘Big Oil’ of Anticompetitive Activities" As Americans are suffering very high gas prices, Biden is doing everything he possibly can to make the problem worse by reducing the supply and cost of the product. [Biden, Economics, Economy, Energy]
Nov 26, 2021 ~ Washington Post, "Biden administration pushes to raise rates for oil and gas drilling on public lands and waters, citing climate change." Americans are hurting from high gas prices and Biden is doing everything he can to make it worse. Increase energy costs, reducing supply etc. [Climate Change, Economics, Economy, Energy]
Nov 17, 2021 ~ "Inflation is a good thing. The border is not open. Trump colluded with the Russians. Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation. The US is systemically racist. Climate change is an existential threat. Trillion dollar programs cost 0. Voter ID is Jim Crow."-- The Democrats [Biden, Climate Change, Economics, Economy, Fake News, Fake Racism, Russia Hoax, Voter Integrity Laws]
Nov 9, 2021 ~ Biden comptroller of the currency nominee Saule Omarova admits they want to bankrupt the "coal industry and oil and gas industry." "A lot of smaller players in that industry are probably going to go bankrupt." "We want them to go bankrupt if we want to tackle climate change." [Climate Change, Economy, Energy]
Oct 31, 2021 ~ Energy Sec. Granholm on rise in gas prices: "Gas prices, of course, are based upon a global oil market. That oil market is controlled by a cartel. That cartel is OPEC." Derek Hunter, "We were energy independent, a net exporter, until these morons" undid everything Trump did. [Climate Change, Derek Hunter, Economics, Economy, Energy]
Oct 31, 2021 ~ Andrea Widberg, 'Empty Christmas stockings? Don't blame COVID; blame California' CA's excessive climate change regulations created "an inability of half the nation's truckers from picking up anything from the Port of LA or Port of Long Beach." And AB-5 prevents 'owner operator." [Climate Change, Economics, Economy, Regulations]
Oct 8, 2021 ~ Massive layoffs coming as companies are starting to comply with Biden's vaccine mandate. Biden says that GOOD. "When you see headlines and reports of mass firings, and hundreds of people losing their jobs, look at the bigger story. United went from 59% [vaccinated] to 99%." [Biden, Covid19, Economy]
Jul 17, 2021 ~ Dominic Pino, 'You Can’t Build the Interstate Highway System Twice' Joe Biden's multi-trillion $ stimulus bill ignores the economic law called 'diminishing marginal utility' "The economic benefits would be small at best" "we already have the largest highway network in the world." [Economics, Economy]
Jun 5, 2021 ~ Weaker than 'expected' May jobs report. 'Misses' target by 100,000 jobs. Of course this was 'expected' by economists and conservatives who have been pointing out that Biden is paying people way too much NOT to work. Predictable results for anyone except Democrats. [Covid19, Economics, Economy]
May 31, 2021 ~ Scott Morefield 'The Dark Democratic Motives Behind The Government-Induced Labor Shortage' Even Dems are not dumb enough to think people will work if you pay them more not to work so what are their motives? They want to grow dependency to grow their power and collapse Capitalism. [Economics, Economy]
May 20, 2021 ~ Biden waives sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia, a gift to Putin, while he kills pipelines in the US that would have provided 1000s of jobs and would help with US energy independence. Rich Lowry, 'This story would be a 5 alarm fire if it happened under Trump." [Economy, Energy, Russia]
May 19, 2021 ~ Biden is destroying the economy by ignoring economics. $300 per week extra unemployment keep 9 million unemployed while 8 million jobs remain unfilled. Inflation soaring as the govt. prints trillions. Gas prices way up after canceling pipelines and drilling. All very predictable. [Biden, Economics, Economy]
May 16, 2021 ~ White House economic adviser Cecilia Rouse blames the horrible April jobs report (worst miss since 1998) on Easter being in March this year. This is a silly, un-serious explanation even if Easter were in March, which is wasn't. This is not a serious administration. [Economy, Fake News]
May 12, 2021 ~ Philip Klein, 'Inflation Soars as Biden Pushes for $4 Trillion in More Spending' The CPI increased '4.2% over the last 12 months, which is the highest increase since 2008.' Democrats think they can print countless trillions and not cause inflation. Zero economic understanding. [Debt, Deficit, Economics, Economy]
Apr 16, 2021 ~ Buttigieg caught in a lie by Chris Wallace. Claimed that Moody's said Biden's infrastructure package will add 19 million jobs to the economy. But Moody really said 2.7 million which is also probably overstated but even if true is no where near Buttigieg's claim. [Biden, Economy]
Mar 10, 2021 ~ The trillions have become a Democrat slush fund, not #Covid relief. @seanspicer points out: "Today the House will pass a $2 Trillion bill. only 9% of which is targeted at #covid relief. This is the 6th "Covid" bill in 12 months. All totaled Congress will have spent $5.5 trillion' [Covid19, Economy, Politics]
Mar 1, 2021 ~ Larry Kudlow at CPAC, 'Real median family income rose in the 3 years before the pandemic by $6500. That is 5 times what the prior admin [did] in 8 years.' 'Record low unemployment 3.5%' Dems always lie 'tax cuts for the rich' but blue collar real wages +10%. Top 10% only +4%. [Economy, Tax Cuts, Trump Win]
Feb 9, 2021 ~ The CBO released a report analyzing the economic impact of the Raise the Wage Act, which would increase the minimum wage to $15 by 2025. Results: $54 billion deficit increase, would drive up the prices of goods and services, and would kill 1.4 million jobs. Lose, lose, lose. [Economics, Economy, Minimum Wage]
Feb 5, 2021 ~ The mayor of Long Beach mandated $4 raise for all grocery store workers. Kroger had to close 2 stores in response putting many out of work. Biden during debate, 'there is no evidence that when you raise the minimum wage, businesses go out of business. That is simply not true.' [Economics, Economy, Minimum Wage]
Feb 5, 2021 ~ Mario Loyola, 'The Dark Side of the Minimum Wage' 'The data show that increasing the minimum wage results in a significant net increase in unemployment. The increase is particularly pronounced among young adults - and most pronounced of all among low-skilled workers.' [Economics, Economy, Minimum Wage]
Jan 25, 2021 ~ The Biden administration put a 60-day hold on new oil and gas leases on public lands. It is expected to become permanent. This will have a big negative jobs effect on states like New Mexico. Biden thinks if you keep fossil fuels in the ground, everything will just run on sunshine [Climate Change, Economy, Energy]
Jan 25, 2021 ~ Biden canceling the Keystone pipeline eliminates 10s of thousands of blue collar jobs, damages relationship with Canada, destroys our hard earned energy independence, will increase energy costs, makes oil spills more, not less likely and will not benefit the environment one bit. [Climate Change, Economy, Energy, Environment]
Nov 17, 2020 ~ Ryan Mills, 'Florida Restaurateurs Warn Minimum-Wage Mandate Could Shut Them Down' Dems never get that artificially raising wages cuts hours, jobs, raises prices, shuts down businesses, shifts to more automation like touch screens etc. 'There’s no pot of gold in this building.'[Economics, Economy, Minimum Wage]
Nov 17, 2020 ~ Ashe Schow, 'Family Income Rose Drastically Under Trump, Meaning His Economy Was Better Than Obama’s' 'In 2016, real median household income was $62,898, just $257 above its level in 1999. Over the next three years it grew almost $6,000, to $68,703.' Plus record low unemployment. [Economy, Trump Win]
Nov 2, 2020 ~ President Trump signs an EO making it easier to fire federal workers. This change has been long awaited by managers who 'want to hold workers accountable.' But the current process made it so difficult, managers had no choice but to keep bad workers or move them around. [Economy, Regulations, Trump Win]
Oct 30, 2020 ~ The Trump economy roars back at record pace. 3rd quarter annualized GDP was 33.1%, more than double the previous record quarterly GDP growth. [Economy, Trump Win]
Oct 30, 2020 ~ Trump reformed the H1b visas. DHS Sec Ken Cuccinelli. 'The current use of random selection to allocate H-1B visas … hurts American workers by bringing in relatively lower-paid foreign labor.' 'We have seen more progress in the last few weeks than we’ve seen in the last 30 years' [Economy, Immigration, Trump Win]
Oct 22, 2020 ~ V shaped economic recovery from #COVID19 is in progress. CNBC, 'New filings for jobless claims in the U.S. totaled 787,000 last week, the lowest total since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.' [Covid19, Economy, Trump Win]
Oct 22, 2020 ~ Kevin Williamson, 'Joe Biden Can't Tax the Rich'. Tax increases on 'the rich' and businesses boomerang back onto the poor and middle class. They pass on the increases in the form of higher prices, lower wages, less raises, less hours, layoffs, etc. GDP goes down. Hurts 401k too. [Biden, Economics, Economy, Tax Cuts]
Oct 6, 2020 ~ Stephen Moore, 'Just Who Is the Real Blue-Collar President?' Manufacturing: Obama: -192,000 Trump: 475,000 Mining: Obama: -112,000 Trump: 63,000 Construction Obama: 280,000 Trump: 746,000 [Economy, Trump Win]