Liberty Reborn

Rube Goldberg, for those of you who are unaware, was a cartoonist who is probably best known for his satirical sketches depicting overly complex and convoluted machines designed to perform simple and mundane tasks. In one of his cartoons he shows a contraption for a self-operated napkin. The man sitting at the table enjoying his soup lifts his spoon with one hand which pulls on a string which then jerks a ladle that in turn tosses a cracker to a parrot which then jumps to catch the treat upsetting a bowl of seeds on the opposite end of the perch.

How is the summer of recovery going? Well according to the latest numbers, no so good as first time claims for unemployment rose again last week and are now at the ominous 500,000 mark. The Department of Labor reports: In the week ending Aug. 14, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 500,000, [...]

Any time I get a couple emails from liberals with nearly the exact same wording of a specific talking point I know that someone is feeding them what to say. Last week, while I was on vacation, the talking point appears to be that the 71,000 net jobs gained by private companies means that the recovery is well underway and the Obamanomics, the policy of tax and bailout, has worked.

Ok, so yesterday I talked about how people that were polled by Rasmussen (55% of them anyway) supported the unconstitutional act of the FCC acting as an arbiter over what can and cannot be said over the airwaves.  Today I want to talk about another Rasmussen poll concerning government subsidies for electric cars in general.  This includes the rebates for the latest ugly baby of the bunch, the Chevy Volt.

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner just doesn’t believe. That is how he justifies the things that he wants.

When asked what he thought a possible renewal of the last set of income tax cuts (for all Americans and not just the rich as the liberals claim) he said that he did not think they would or should be included in yet another “Stimulus” plan being proposed. He went on to add, “I don’t believe they will have a negative effect on growth.”

Liberals are so desperate. And the HLIC (Head Liberal In Charge), President Obama, is no different. They are out there telling us how the great panic, which they caused through heavy handed bank regulations that forced money to go where money did not want to go and for good reason, which has now transformed into [...]

An interesting headline reads that 65% of Americans are worried that the government will run out of money. Yeah, the other 35% of us don’t worry about it because we know it has already happened! source

Amy asks a question that I think I have answered before but cannot remember …

People email me every week asking me about going Galt. They ask me how to do it because they are tired of paying this out of control government for being out of control and even if I have done it.

The United States federal government is broke. Year after year it is spending more than it brings in and the deficits are mounting. So what happens when an already broke entity loans money it doesn’t have to another broke entity? Picture the Keystone Cops runs around bonking into each other and you have a good picture to work from.