To Fix the Budget, Bring Back Reagan…or Even Clinton

by Brian Garst | Feb 14, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements

President Obama unveiled his fiscal year 2012 budget today, and there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that there’s no major initiative such as the so-called stimulus scheme or the government-run healthcare proposal. The bad news, though, is that government...

If the GM Bailout Is Obama’s Definition of Success, No Wonder America’s Heading to Bankruptcy

by Dan Mitchell | Nov 20, 2010 | Bailouts, Blogs

The President wants us to believe that the recent IPO for General Motors was a smashing success. And it was…if you believe that it’s a good idea to lose money (the direct cost of the bailout) and make the economy less efficient by misallocating resources (the indirect...

New Boss is Same as the Old Boss

by Brian Garst | Nov 2, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending

One of the points made most frequently on this blog is that Obama’s big spending policies are essentially just an extension and elaboration on those from the Bush years.  That is also the argument of this new video from Reason.tv:

Republicans and Democrats Should Be Especially Concerned about the Threat of Government When Their Party Is in Charge

by Dan Mitchell | Oct 21, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs

Gallup just released a poll showing that 46 percent of Americans view the federal government as an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary Americans. My first reaction was to wonder why the number was so low. After all, we have a political elite that...

Is Obama the Next Hoover or the Next FDR?

by Dan Mitchell | Sep 11, 2010 | Bailouts, Big Government, Blogs, Economics

Jonah Goldberg writes in National Review that President Obama is beginning to look like the next Herbert Hoover. This is rather ironic since the left wanted him to become the next Franklin Delano Roosevelt, ushering in a new era of politically-popular statism. …the...