Posts Tagged ‘big government’
A tale of two cities
Almost one year ago a killer tornado struck Tuscaloosa, Alabama, killing 52 people and damaging or destroying 2000 buildings. A month later, another killer tornado struck Joplin, Missouri, killing 161 people and damaging or destroying 6000 buildings. Each city took a different approach to recovery and restoration.
Read MoreDemocrat jobs creation failure now includes government “training” failures too!
I wish I had more time to get into the Cato Institute’s policy analysis paper – written 25 years ago – concerning the ineffectiveness of almost 50 different federal “job training” programs managed by multiple government agencies. With President Obama’s reference to even more federal outreach programs this week, Michelle’s Malkin’s column brings the topic…
Read MoreConnecticut’s smoke and mirrors budget and other liberal wish lists
Just an amazing post from the Big Government site about Connecticut’s Democratic legislature and Democratic Gov. and their pursuit to prove that big government tax sucking liberalism can actually work. I was stunned reading the post to see just how liberal the state has become. Sometimes it isn’t until you see it in print that…
Read MoreCK speaks: Obama solidifies the Democrats as party of big government UPDATE: Obama video plus transcript
Worth the listen … not much commentary needed.
Read MoreBi-partisan commission on reducing the debt – draft report
With the federal legislative session not exactly in full swing, you have plenty of time to review President Obama’s bi-partisan commission’s “how to reduce the debt” draft report. Unfortunatley, I don’t have time to read much this evening, but I wanted to provide you a link to the PDF for your reading pleasure.
Read MoreHere come the fun police!
Earn more! Government pay higher than private sector
And the numbers you’ll see beneath the fold does not reveal the huge disparity in benefits provided to those with public sector jobs. In 83 percent of comparable jobs, government employees make more.
Read MoreExpansion of federal government – mission creep
Familiar with the term mission creep? In business, a project starts with specified business requirements and after the project gets rolling, new requirements – or change orders – are added after the fact increasing costs and sometimes destroying the project. Nick Gillespie over at Reason TV talks mission creep in government projects.
Read MoreACORN: Who will be fired in Philadelphia? Housing, prostitution, fraud
Will Katherine Conway-Russell, office director at the Philadelphia ACORN office be fired? Will the main stream media post dozens of required retractions since they claimed James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles were kicked out of the ACORN office? Will Media Matters disown ACORN and post their own retractions? Update: More video added.
Read MoreThe Revolution Has Begun
I am highlighting this article because it it just an incredible piece of writing and pulls together what has been happening over the past 7 months better than anything I have read. Big H/T to RVO reader Linda for bringing this article to my attention over at Big Government. It’s written by Chris Burgard, a…
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