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Federal stimulus fail – “Weatherize your home” program buried in red tape

By Steve McGough / February 18, 2010 /

Part of the Obama administration’s stimulus program included a plan to weatherize 600,000 homes in three years – and “save or create” jobs of course – has only completed somewhere between 9,000 and 22,000 homes during it’s first year. The program cost is $5 billion.

Good thing we did that stimulus, huh? Update: Video

By Jim Vicevich / September 5, 2009 /

This chart keeps changing and not for the better. Some analysis here at Michaels Comments. But what stuns me is not that the stimulus is not working … we warned you in February that shoveling money to Democrat public works projects does not stimulate the private sector where jobs are created. It’s not that the…

Goldman Sachs to US: Recession? What Recession?

By Jim Vicevich / July 20, 2009 /

Or as Terry Keenan puts it, “”What’s bad for America is good for Goldman.” I read this yesterday and I thought it was well worth bringing your attention to it. Terry Keenan, a host on Fox Business has a facinating article on how Goldman Sachs, one of the few investment bankers to not only survive…

Vote Democrat: It could have been worse

By Jim Vicevich / July 8, 2009 /

Too much really. As Glenn Reynolds points out at Instapundit, “With a slogan like that, how could they lose?” Indeed.

I never met a tax cut that created a job

By Jim Vicevich / July 6, 2009 /

Is it that they are really this stupid in Congress, or is that they think we are? No, he said it, and this is why the Democrats will never get it. Maybe it’s because most of them are lawyers. Maybe none of them ever took a class in economics. Maybe … I’ve run out of…

Silence, you knaves

By Jim Vicevich / May 30, 2009 /

This is just so unbelievable … it’s … well unbelievable? Just the next step toward the new America the Messiah … err … the President … has been talking about.

Generational theft: continued

By Jim Vicevich / May 11, 2009 /

This is really the third in a series of posts but in many ways I think is the most important. Make sure you read Unemployment estimates with and without recovery plan and The Coming economic meltdown.

Awkward!

By Jim Vicevich / March 17, 2009 /

Uh Oh … remember when President Obama touted his stimulus package as a job saver He even traveled to East Peoria to make Caterpillar the poster child of saved or retained jobs … remember? httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEHnc88OH6M Now we get this from Reuters … Caterpillar Inc, the world’s largest maker of construction and mining equipment, notified an additional…

The Satyr and the Peasent, a modern retelling – Video

By Dave in EH / March 16, 2009 /

There is one of Aesop’s fables, entitled “The Satyr and the Peasent,” “A Man had lost his way in a wood one bitter winter’s night. As he was roaming about, a Satyr came up to him, and finding that he had lost his way, promised to give him a lodging for the night, and guide…

$1 trillion not enough – another $500 billion in the works

By Steve McGough / February 23, 2009 /

Since everyone seems to be falling over looking for money from the government and the Democrats control both the Executive and Legislative branches, Pelosi and crew are gearing up for more pork spending. HR 1105 has been written up, but Democrats are sticking with the playbook refusing to post the bill online for review by…