Longtime readers of this blog know that I'm for fiscal conservatism and letting the free market be responsible for itself, without government interference. Meaning that among other things that I've never thought anything favorable about government bailout programs.A few days ago Mitt Romney, the assumed Republican candidate for President, announced that Paul Ryan would be his running mate in this fall's election.Paul Ryan is being touted as a "Tea...
Showing posts with label bailout. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bailout. Show all posts
Monday, August 13, 2012
Monday, June 01, 2009
General Motors files for bankruptcy, taxpayers having to bail it out
Read about it here.So... who's gonna be the first to buy a car manufactured by the U.S. federal government?(crickets chirping....
Friday, May 29, 2009
Is Obama Admin punishing Chrysler dealers who donated to Republicans?
Longtime readers of this blog know without me having to remind anyone: party allegiance doesn't exist in this dojo. Personally I'd rather see a country full of citizens who are beholden to no political parties at all. And I like to think that one of the end characteristics of that drastic un-affiliation is that this blog and its peculiar proprietor are equally hard on both Democrats and Republicans.But I also believe absolutely in the right to...
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Santelli is right: Time to show the American government who's boss
It's become "The Rant Heard 'Round the World": CNBC's Rick Santelli on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange two days ago, blasting President Obama's mortgage bailout plans and calling for a new "tea party"...Santelli's impromptu screed alarmed the Obama Administration enough that Press Secretary Robert Gibbs attacked Santelli during the daily White House press briefing yesterday.Most of y'all who read this blog on a regular basis know what...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Some random musings on things...
A few months ago George W. Bush proposed wasting hundreds of billions of dollars of our money and it was called "bailout" and some politicians approved it. Today Barack Obama is proposing wasting hundreds of billions of dollars of our money and it's being called "stimulus" and those same politicians deride it as unacceptable.I would like to quote "Oceania is at war with Eurasia, Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia" to the Powers That Be,...